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