Abhimanyu Lad
Independent Work at TBD
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAbhimanyu Lad is a technical leader and hands-on builder with 16 years of experience designing consumer-scale search and discovery systems, including 14 years at LinkedIn where he led the transition from rule-based relevance to semantic and LLM-powered search. He combines deep research roots (PhD from Carnegie Mellon) with product-facing engineering leadership across retrieval, ranking, query understanding, and multi-objective optimization. Known for shipping large-scale experimentation and evaluation frameworks, he has driven whole-page optimization, internationalization, and in-session assistance that shape widely used web and mobile search experiences. Currently independent in the San Francisco Bay Area, he focuses on AI-native products, agentic workflows, and interfaces for knowledge synthesis that improve human decision-making. He prefers small, high-velocity teams where strong engineering judgment, pragmatic AI use, and product taste rapidly translate into user value. An under-the-hood strength is his rare combination of probabilistic modeling expertise and practical deployment experience across live-traffic systems.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
10+2, 10+2 at Apeejay SchoolPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.Tech., Information Technology, B.Tech., Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad
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Github Skills (18)
obsidian6
knowledge-graph6
graph6
markdown6
javascript6
org-mode6
clojurescript5
clojure5
trello5
git5
pdf4
privacy4
knowledge-management3
collaboration3
ocr3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alad/Mekano
Jan 2010 - Oct 2010
Contributions:55 commits in 8 months
alad/kickstart-modular.nvim
Jan 2025 - Nov 2025
A launch point for your personal nvim configuration
Contributions:10 pushes in 9 months
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