Narendran Thangarajan
Engineering Manager at Uber
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNarendran Thangarajan is an Engineering Manager based in Bengaluru with 15 years of experience building search, assistant and backend systems at scale. He currently leads Uber Eats Search and the next-generation LLM-powered AI Assistant, having advanced from individual contributor roles where he delivered query understanding, retrieval, quality measurement and developer tooling. Prior to Uber, he spent seven years at Google as an applied researcher and software engineer for Assistant & Search, launching deep learning models for speech, parsing and ranking and driving large migration efforts to microservices and secure authentication flows. His background blends academic research—graph-based outbreak analysis during his MS at UC San Diego—with hands-on platform engineering at eBay and Nimble Storage, giving him a practical grasp of both research and production. Known for translating cutting-edge ML into reliable production services, he pairs systems-level engineering judgment with a strong track record of operational migrations and infrastructure ownership.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoB.E. Computer Science, B.E. Computer Science at SSN College of Engineering (Aff. Anna University)
English, Tamil
Github Skills (5)
chord7
golang3
python1
editor1
text-editor1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
narendran/narendran.github.io
May 2015 - Jul 2024
My blog
Contributions:16 PRs, 81 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 3 months
my-blog
narendran/mycloud
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:36 commits in 17 days
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