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• Senior Engineering Manager, Search and Sensei, Adobe

  Jan, 2020 - Present

  I manage a team of engineers and researchers across multiple Adobe teams in the design, architecture and development of AI powered assistive and search features within multiple Adobe Products like Adobe Express, Creative Cloud Mobile apps. I am responsible for leading the team to drive projects from idea formulation, to design, implementation, code performance and analytics. Apart from my software responsibilities towards my team, I am responsible for

  • Setting team strategy and be accountable for team plans and deliverables

  • Grow and build a strong, healthy, and diverse team through hiring, as well mentoring and coaching

  • Collaborate with other engineering teams and cross-functional teams

  • Provide strong technical leadership to the team and partner teams

• Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead, Adobe

  Feb, 2018 - Dec, 20191 year 10 months

  I am part of the Adobe Sensei Intelligent Agents group working to provide assistant like features to Adobe Creative Cloud products. I was also leading a cross functional group made up of Adobe Sensei, Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Research in developing an Assistant Framework for the deployment within Adobe products. I was responsible for architecture, technology stack, analytics, service deployment and release cycles. Our team deployed and tested multiple end user facing assistant features into Adobe Illustrator through early release alphas.

  • Python flask and fastapi based machine learing services

  • React, React-redux, React-sagas, Node.JS based frontend apps

  • Managed Docker / AWS / Azure based deployments

  • Overall ML System Architecture

  • Launching products from whiteboard to production systems

• Project Lead/Architect, Technicolor

  Oct, 2014 - Feb, 20183 years 4 months

  I managed a team of researchers and engineers to create artificial intelligence based solutions for predictive analytics and recommendation systems. I was responsible for designing and developing algorithms for predictive user analytics. I was also the System Architect, Lead Engineer and focal point for all engineering activities.

  • Scalable predictive analytics platform for real time resource utilization analysis

  • Recommendation systems design, developement and deployment

  • User privacy preserving mechanisms for recommendations and analytics

  • Python flask and fastapi based machine learing services

  • Published critical results at SIGGRAPH and IEEE

• Research Engineer, Technicolor

  Jan, 2011 - Oct, 20143 years 8 months

  I was primarily responsible for designing, devoloping and deploying Machine Learning based solutions in the areas of content discovery and recommendation systems on edge computing devices, TV’s and digital media receivers worldwide. This work was published in major artificial intelligence and machine learning conferences.

  • Content discovery through minimal interaction

  • Recommendations based on the content (Mood based recommendation)

  • Content discovery based on user context

  • Social media analytics for advertising

  • User privacy (Preserving user privacy while consuming content)

  • Published at ICML’13, AAAI’13 and NIPS’12.

• Research Intern, Technicolor

  Jan, 2010 - Dec, 201011 months

  Built an efficient wikipedia based semantic interpreter by exploiting top-k processing. The result of this work was published at ACM CIKM' 10. Responsible for designing the algorithm, software development and deployment.

• Project Engineer, Wipro

  Jul, 2006 - Jul, 200711 months

  I worked as a UNIX/Oracle/SAP consultant for Shell (Oil) Information Technology. I was resposible for cluster migration, database migration, backup and recovery on worldwide Shell servers. Other related work areas include SAP support and Oracle 9i/10g query processing. As a project engineer, I was responsible for designing and building a poll/survey platform for the entire organization. Human Resources department’s goal was to use the tool to interact with their employees and get realtime feedback on various company related policies and events

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