Janani Sundarrajan
Head of Engineering - Foundation Platforms
- Role
- Senior Engineering Manager at Lyft
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Senior Engineering Manager
Jan 2022 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Leading Marketplace Foundations at Lyft – a 55-person organization spanning software engineers, data scientists, and product managers, with 3 Engineering Managers and 1 Data Science Manager reporting to me. We build the critical platforms and intelligence systems that power Lyft\'s two-sided marketplace, delivering the foundational infrastructure that enables efficient marketplace operations at scale:Forecasting & Real-Time Optimization – providing predictive signals for supply and demand across spatial and temporal dimensions, with real-time ecosystem tools for marketplace balancingExperimentation Platform – enabling data-driven decision making across all of Lyft through trusted, extensible experimentation capabilitiesAI/ML Platform – building the foundational infrastructure that powers both AI applications and machine learning modeling across Lyft. Provides unified capabilities for prototyping, training, and serving models that drive critical marketplace decisions (pricing, dispatch, ETA prediction, incentives) while also enabling AI use cases from marketplace intelligence to customer service automationGrowth Platforms – personalized messaging optimization and incentives allocation systems serving riders and drivers, managing billions in annual investment through sophisticated targeting and real-time engagementMarket Expansion – tactical capabilities accelerating Lyft\'s geographic expansion through localization and operational enablementOur mission is to empower Marketplace systems with essential signals, platforms, and tools that enables teams across Lyft to launch early and efficiently.
Education
North Carolina State University
MS, Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
Skills
- Java
- Jboss Application Server
- Oracle
- Eclipse
- Ant
- Jsp
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Wicket
- Javascript
- Design Patterns
- Sql
- Ajax
- Software Development
- Software Engineering
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