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Head of Discovery - Search and Feeds @ Pinterest Leading multiple engineering organizations at the core of the Pinterest product: Search, Homefeed, Visual Search, Topics, etc. The goal of the team is to produce the most relevant and personalized content for great user experience and engagement metrics. Working with the team in setting the goals and the...

Head of Discovery - Search and Feeds @ Pinterest Leading multiple engineering organizations at the core of the Pinterest product: Search, Homefeed, Visual Search, Topics, etc. The goal of the team is to produce the most relevant and personalized content for great user experience and engagement metrics. Working with the team in setting the goals and the technical direction of the ML components for candidate generation and ranking of multiple product surfaces as well as the search infra structure and relevance. Fostering an end-to-end thinking from the front end to the ML backends that fully encompasses the user experience. Involved in all phases of the development: from defining success metrics, planning, execution, defining algorithms, shaping ML features, to providing feedback on user facing front end features. Led the team in multiple quarters of successful increase of key users engagement metrics. From July 2016 to July 2018 (2 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaHead of Ads Engineering @ Pinterest Lead the Ads Engineering team in interim. Responsible for all aspects of the day-to-day operation including revenue bottom line, operational stability and team health. On the technical side working with the team on a rewrite of the ads infra stack and evolving the quality metrics, goals and modeling approach. From September 2017 to April 2018 (8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaHead of Growth Engineering @ Pinterest Responsible for the user growth company-wide metrics which is the #1 priority for the company. Worked out a playbook for international growth. Grown the team from ~20 to ~70. Managing an engineering organization with multiple teams focusing on user acquisition (SEO), signup flow, activation, re-engagement with emails/notifications, collaboration and virality. Working with executives, PMs, designers and other engineering teams on the technical and product strategy. Owned a goal that was missed multiple quarters by the team and turned around to multiple quarters of beating the goal and facilitating the international growth of Pinterest. From July 2015 to October 2016 (1 year 4 months) San FranciscoIndividual contributor @ Pinterest Back to writing code. co-wrote a runtime of a search engine leaf node. Deployed for serving ads From February 2015 to July 2015 (6 months) San Francisco, CaliforniaCTO, Homes @ Airbnb Homes is the core business of Airbnb including the whole spectrum of accommodations from shared rooms and houses to hotels and real estate developments in all tiers: Regular, Plus, Lux. Leading an organization that has both horizontal groups as Homes Engineering and Homes Data Science as well as GM groups as Marketplace, Relevance and Personalization, and Regulatory Frameworks. All with the goal of making the world a smaller place for everyone! CTO and VP Eng @ Pinterest As CTO, responsible for the overall technical vision and strategy of the company and communicating that to leadership and the teams; hiring and development of technical talent. As VP of Engineering managing some of the core eng teams. From March 2017 to March 2019 (2 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaFounding Advisor @ Kosei Mobile retargeting using AI From 2014 to 2015 (1 year) Palo Alto, California, United StatesSr. Director of Advertising (in Yahoo Research) @ Yahoo Leading a research team in a portfolio of advertising technology projects, including next-generation targeting platform, ad exchange design, and new targeting initiatives. From 2006 to 2012 (6 years) Research Staff Member @ IBM Almaden From 2000 to 2006 (6 years) Almaden Research Center, San JoseLecturer, MS&E Department @ Stanford University Teach Computational Advertising class at Stanford's MS&E Department in the Fall semesters. Some of the content available at during class time athttp://www.stanford.edu/class/msande239/ From 2009 to 2012 (3 years) Assistant Professor @ Uppsala University From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Technical Lead @ Google Leading a portfolio of projects in Google Research that use large scale machine learning, search and information extraction technologies to produce WOW experiences for the users. Supported multiple internal customers including search ads, youtube, google play, etc. From March 2012 to February 2015 (3 years) Mountain View, CaAdvisor and Investor @ Multiple startups