Google – Research

Jan 18 – present

Product manager – Data Management platform and Data strategy

• Cross organization product leader for building data labeling, model monitoring and training pipeline with Google cloud data labeling service, contributing to double digit million $$ deals for 2021 with triple digit projections.
• Enabling Google speech and assistant teams for specialized training and data tasks to improve speech recognition, transcription and translation quality – 20% less training data and 40% faster data output 
• Pricing and beta testing with industrial (vision inspection) and Document AI customers for early product use cases. 
• Building centralized HIPAA and GDPR policy compliant data storage platforms for Google health and other product areas.  
• Hiring, training and mentoring a small group of designers with cross group collaboration focused on branding and marketing the solution.

Strategizing for long term data initiatives for research and product areas

• Defining strategy for critical data ecosystem components to prepare Google research at long term investments in synthetic data generation, data excellence and data quality. 
• Extensive user research for generating insights to identify researchers and ML practitioner’s needs to support data strategy validation.
• Driving roadmap with clear ROI on investments and defined success metrics for applied research initiatives.

Research in multimodal understanding (Image to text)

• Advancing generative image captioning models to Google products like Chrome and Google photos – Making products accessible to 300+ million visually impaired users.
• Identifying compelling product use cases and prioritizing team efforts for- 
  • Multilingual image captioning models and building appropriate datasets
  • Converting image captioning model for on-device (edge) model 
  • Improved quality of model output in the areas of fairness, gender bias and ethical considerations

Google – DayDream

Jan 17- Dec 18

Product Manger – Founding member of ARCore android SDK

ARCore is an android SDK for building augmented reality apps. ARCore integrates virtual content with the real world as seen through a device’s camera using key technologies like Motion tracking, Environmental understanding and Light estimation. 

• Pioneering team member who lead scoping the MVP and assembled teams around engineering, research and laser focus execution. Key collaborator from product & engineering to marketing, support and OEM integrations.
• ARCore SDK is currently used in more than 100+ enterprise apps and over 20+ million devices.

Google – Nest

Apr 15 – Dec 17

Google – Nest – Product / Program manager

• Key executor in launching the new outdoor nest camera hardware with improved and compatible mobile application, resulting in nest camera market share by 12%
• Pioneering 1^st machine learning feature, person detection, in consumer camera market by leading collaboration with Google research & nest perception teams. 
• Intelligent Object and person detection alerts Improved NPS score by 12% and 20% lift in use of notification. 
• Transforming and setting a new design standard for browsing video recording with innovative design; “timeline” 
• Program managing 7+ partnerships Nest partnership with energy companies (APIs) and other IOT device manufacturers for home automation use cases.

Microsoft (Silicon valley and Redmond, WA)

 Apr 2010 – Apr 15)

Senior Program Manager for Proactive Experiences in Windows

• Leading consumer product features in Windows 10 to ship 2 key proactive experience with personal assistant  (Cortana)
• Designing engaging user interfaces for android and windows phone for personal assistant integrated with Microsoft office scenarios.  
• Founding and leading a small team of product managers to build user preference stores (inferred and explicit) for Microsoft account users to power proactive assistant experiences.

Senior Program Manager – Information platform division (Bing search)

• Played a key role in merger of “Here” maps team with Bing for search relevance measurement and improvement.
• Program managing data acquisition contracts with maps data providers for Bing maps in non-us markets. 
• Leading initiative to define a measure with competitive relevance metric in major markets and improving search relevance by 5%+ of the market leader.

Program Manager – Microsoft Speech & TellMe networks 

• Improving speech for xBox and windows phone by partnering with voice and speech technology from TellMe network’s IVR.

Symantec

Apr 10 – Jun 11

Program Manager – enterprise volume licensing and Content management

• Program managing a content development platform for norton product line for worldwide distribution
• Program managing platform development for billing and licensing norton products for enterprise.

Tata Consultancy services

(Jan 04-Oct 08 | June 09 – Mar 10)

Developer consulting for Visual studio, MS Office and MSN at Microsoft

• Developing enterprise collaboration tools for Microsoft office and Visual studio teams as a web developer. 
• Developing frameworks for custom media advertising solutions and reusable, small advertising solutions
• Developing product samples and documentation for MSDN knowledge base articles to demonstrate technology.
• Leading the remote development team in India, other geographies and general delivery management. 
• Business development and presales activity for new product proposals using Microsoft technologies.

Aptara Corp

 Aug 02- Dec 03

Web development and backend engineer

• Worked as a core web developer building learning management systems for enterprises with SaaS models. 

Deepak Nitrite

 Aug 00 – July 01

Design Engineer

• Deepak Nitrite is a chemical manufacturer,
• Designed specifications for vacuum equipment
• Carried out energy audit and establishing process for energy management in utilities, packaging and raw batch processing