Sharath Rao - Vice President Of Engineering, Data AI

Sharath Rao

Vice President Of Engineering, Data AI

San Francisco, California, United States

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Sharath Rao is a seasoned technology leader in data and AI, currently Vice President of Engineering, Data/AI at Handshake in San Francisco, where he guides platform and product ML initiatives. He has a decade of experience delivering large-scale ML products across search, recommendations, ads, experimentation, risk analytics, and real estate analytics. At Instacart, he built and scaled ML-driven search, personalization, and ads, growing the Ads business from $20M ARR to over $1B ARR and leading an org of 50+ engineers, with work spanning retrieval, ranking, auctions, automated bidding, and real-time joint optimization of organic and ads. His background includes research and production leadership at Yahoo! Labs, Intent Media, and Morgan Stanley, plus academic work in signal processing and speech, supported by a CMU MS in Language Technologies and 3 patents. He is an active builder of data platforms (Hadoop/Spark ecosystems) and experimentation pipelines, combining hands-on engineering with strategic product sense to turn cutting-edge ML into reliable, scalable systems.

11 years of coding experience

13 years of employment as a software developer

B.E, Electrical Engineering, B.E, Electrical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Masters, Language Technologies (Computer Science), Masters, Language Technologies (Computer Science) at Carnegie Mellon University

MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Boston University

Konkani, Kannada, Hindi, English

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Github Skills (4)

visual-studio-20156

sql-server6

sharepoint6

odata6

Github contributions (1)

raosharath/bayesian-AB-tests

Dec 2014 - Jan 2015

Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 14 days

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