Navneet Rao
Director Of Engineering at Thumbtack
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNavneet Rao is a Director of Engineering based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience building ML-driven systems and scaling teams for marketplace search and ranking. At Thumbtack he leads three cross-functional teams of 30+ engineers shaping search relevance, semantic search, and multi-objective ranking that serve over 4 million customers and 300,000 local businesses. He has a track record of translating ML research into revenue impact—driving consecutive annual gains (7–8%+ revenue lift across roles) through feature engineering, personalization models, and auction/monetization optimizations. Prior to Thumbtack he led ML engineering for IBM Watson Assistant, shipping intent and entity models at global scale across 100M users and 100K+ production models. A Carnegie Mellon MS graduate in Intelligent Information Systems, Navneet combines hands-on modeling (XGBoost, deep cross networks, extractive summarization) with people leadership and experimentation-driven roadmaps. He’s equally comfortable coaching engineering managers as he is rolling up his sleeves to prototype new search and ranking approaches.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityMaster of Science - MS Intelligent Information Systems, Master of Science - MS Intelligent Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (16)
ibm-watson10
watson10
google-assistant10
ibm-cloud10
watson-assistant10
dialog9
entities9
classification9
machine-learning-algorithms8
sap-hana8
ai7
conversational-ai7
machine-learning7
lua6
lua-table6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
navneetrao/hacks
Apr 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
navneetrao/assistant-dialog-skill-analysis
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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