Nikhil Sawant
Software Engineering Manager @Microsoft | Ex-Yahoo!
- Role
- Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Principal Software Engineer Manager
May 2012 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
BingAds, Application and services Group (ASG) at MicrosoftWorking for RnR (Relevance and Revenue) international team to innovate and optimize the serving algorithms to improve relevance with revenue maximization for international markets. Majority of my works has been in query suggestion/reformulation (selection) domain. I worked on online (real-time) query reformulation as well as offline algorithms. Also worked on hard problems like query segmentation and segment importance. Currently focused on Product Ads for bing, working on offer understanding and explorationKeen Hacker:• Inline monetization for paid ads• Bing co-branding• Rich content monetization (video ads)(Hackathon 2014: India Finalist)
Education
University of Mumbai
BE
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
M.Tech
Skills
- Python
- Search Analysis
- Hadoop
- Display Advertising
- Data Structures
- Linux
- Computer Science
- Algorithms
- Search
- Machine Learning
- C/C++
- Perl
- Xml
- Apache Pig
- Online Advertising
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