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Technologist who loves to work on new ideas and take them from conception to production. Specialized in AI/ML, Distributed Systems, Search, Information Retrieval, Databases. 19+ years experience in individual contributor as well as people management roles across domains such as e-commerce, transportation, ed-tech, web search, cloud services. Some examples of my past work: 1/ Architected and built Machine Learning Platform at Lyft, including systems and services for feature engineering, model development and training, model deployment and monitoring. 2/ Founded FinitePaths, social Q&A with a strong backend ML platform. FinitePaths was acquired by Lyft. 3/ Conceptualized and led the team to build AWS Elasticsearch Service (now called OpenSearch Service). 4/ Built the distributed search engine for Amazon retail.