Summary
Vinayak Shukl is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience specializing in search and ML-driven relevance, currently leading AI Engineering at Apollo.io after a long tenure at LinkedIn. He has driven search AI for LinkedIn Learning—owning intent, expansion, retrieval, ranking and explore/exploit techniques—and scaled relevance systems across feeds, typeahead, and content recommendations. Known for turning research metrics into production improvements, he has a track record of migrating legacy search verticals to modern architectures with measurable gains in engagement. Based in Bengaluru and grounded in a BTech from IIIT Delhi, he blends hands-on engineering with people leadership to ship high-impact, data-driven search systems. An early career focus on IoT and large-scale energy telemetry hints at a pragmatic systems mindset beyond pure ML.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary Senior Secondary Education, Higher Secondary Senior Secondary Education at Springdales School, India
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
English, Hindi