Venky Manicks
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolVenky Manicks is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale multimodal retrieval and ranking systems that power Google Lens and Multimodal GenAI, impacting over 1.5B monthly users. He leads engineering efforts for image-based search retrieval, RAG integration, and LLM-orchestrated ranking across 100B+ corpora to surface rich non-text content in AI responses. Previously he improved visual and content diversity in Google Image Search and has deep systems and ML grounding from roles at Google, Amazon, and research at Carnegie Mellon. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs rigorous academic training (CMU MS, 4.0) and top-tier technical leadership with a knack for turning cutting-edge research into production-scale experiences that users interact with daily.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, 9.57, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, 9.57 at Madras Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 4.0 at Carnegie Mellon University
English, TamilGithub contributions (5)
cmu-navlab/scene-recon-android
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
venkyman/vision-kinshipextraction
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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