Summary
Rama Badrinath is an AI/ML leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale recommendation, search, and personalization systems across consumer platforms. Currently at Google after leading feed ranking, recommendation, and a production A/B testing platform at Meesho, Rama combines deep research credentials (publications at KDD and ECIR) with hands-on engineering and product sense. He has set up content-understanding teams for multilingual media at ShareChat and shipped ML solutions end-to-end in high-throughput environments such as ads and e-commerce. Comfortable bridging research and product, he specializes in LLMs, user modeling, distributed ML platforms, and experimentation infrastructure. An invited speaker on A/B testing and a proven manager of cross-functional teams, Rama brings a rare mix of academic rigor and operational experience that accelerates data-driven product decisions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science Specialization: Natural Language Processing Machine learning, Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science Specialization: Natural Language Processing Machine learning at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bachelor's degree Information Science, Bachelor's degree Information Science at RV College Of Engineering