Vast experience in building large scale Data, Search, Personalization, and Recommendations systems. Expertise in Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Algorithms, and Distributed Systems. Specialties: Getting Things Done.

Executive Director of Engineering: Data, Search, and Application Services @ Responsible for the Data and Search platform, and Services. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaExecutive Director of Engineering: Search, and Application Services @ Responsible for the platform that supports Search, Personalization, Recommendations, and User Generated Content. From May 2014 to March 2015 (11 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaExecutive Director of Engineering: Search @ Led the Search, Personalization, and Recommendations group at YP. We were responsible for the entire platform that powered the search, personalization, recommendations, and related services on YP.com, m.yp.com, YPMobile apps, and YP AdNetwork. From November 2012 to May 2014 (1 year 7 months) Director of Engineering: Search @ Led the Search Group consisting of multiple engineering teams. We were responsible for the entire search platform that powered the search and related services on YP.com, m.yp.com, YPmobile apps, and YP AdNetwork. From January 2012 to November 2012 (11 months) Engineering Lead, Search Core @ Led the Search Core Engineering team that was responsible for the Search Engine that powered search on YP.com, m.yp.com, YP mobile apps, and YP AdNetwork. From April 2011 to January 2012 (10 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaSenior Software Engineer @ Worked as a Senior Developer for the Search Engineering team. Developed the Search Engine that powered search on YP.com, m.yp.com, YPMobile Apps, and YP AdNetwork. Responsible for relevance and performance improvements in our Search Retrieval and Ranking Algorithms. From November 2009 to April 2011 (1 year 6 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaSoftware Development Engineer @ Worked as a Developer for Bing Search Ranking Team. From December 2007 to November 2009 (2 years) Greater Seattle Area

PhD, Computer Science @ Duke University From 2002 to 2007 B.Tech, Computer Science @ Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi From 1998 to 2002 Sudheer Sahu is skilled in: Computer Science, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Algorithms, Data Mining, Hadoop, Hive, Software Engineering, Scalability, Distributed Systems, Natural Language Processing, MapReduce, Parallel Computing, Java, Perl