Krishna Kamath
Search Relevance Lead at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKrishna Kamath is a search and recommendation leader with 15 years of engineering experience and a decade-long focus on machine learning and engineering management, currently leading Pinterest’s backend search stack. He has a proven track record at scale—doubling signups/logins and boosting new-user retention by 10% at Twitter—and has shipped high-throughput personalization systems that served hundreds of millions of users. At Pinterest he launched the company’s first Gen AI user feature and deployed distilled LLMs to cut labeling costs and power real-time semantic relevance. Krishna repeatedly builds teams and technical leadership, hiring and promoting senior ML and engineering leaders while upskilling engineers into ML roles. He blends hands-on ML systems design (candidate generation, ranking, signal extraction) with product-minded experimentation and developer productivity improvements. A PhD-trained researcher comfortable across academia and product engineering, he brings both deep algorithmic expertise and pragmatic delivery at consumer scale.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Texas A&M UniversityBTech Computer Science, BTech Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Rourkela
Github Skills (6)
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Github contributions (5)
kykamath/streaming_lsh
Jun 2011 - Sep 2011
Contributions:302 commits in 3 months
kykamath/library
Jul 2011 - Mar 2013
Contributions:313 commits in 1 year 8 months
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