Summary
Naran B is an ML engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale machine learning systems, currently focused on search and knowledge discovery at Glean in Palo Alto. He previously led ML teams at Quora tackling content quality—spam, hate speech, and plagiarism—and served as a staff ML engineer improving feed relevance, cold-start exploration, and NLP-driven content understanding. At Opendoor he held a senior staff role applying ML to real-world product problems, and his background includes Stanford CS teaching and a Microsoft engineering internship. Trained in EE/CS (BS/MS) at Stanford, he blends deep systems and hardware understanding with human-computer interaction and AI expertise. Notably, his GitHub bio lists him as CEO of Metamind, hinting at entrepreneurial interests alongside hands-on engineering. He’s comfortable moving models from research to production while keeping an eye on user-facing quality metrics.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science, Bachelors, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science at Stanford University
Mongolian, Chinese