Parthiban Pillai
Senior Director - Engineering, Search Platform @ Walmart | Ex-InMobian | IIMB
- Role
- Senior Director of Engineering at Walmart Global Tech
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Parthiban Pillai
Currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Walmart Global Tech, leading the Search Platform Engineering team, both Runtime and Data Platform, at the India Development Centre (IDC). With over six years in this organization, the team drives critical initiatives to enhance product discoverability and customer experience for Walmart\'s US customers by innovating in Search technologies. The focus remains on building scalable, efficient systems while optimizing latency and cost. We have built home grown 0-1 solutions be it on Enhancing Variants experience in Search, Real Time Stitching Platform and more.With over a decade of experience in distributed systems and big data, contributed to transformative projects in previous roles, including scaling a demand-side platform at InMobi to handle billions of daily ad requests with strict SLAs. Known for fostering collaboration and technical excellence, the goal is to empower teams to deliver impactful solutions aligned to business objectives.
Experience
Senior Director of Engineering
Jan 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
As a Senior Director, Engineering for Search Platform based out of IDC i functionally report to VP Search in US and have Site reporting to Group Director. Key responsibilities:1. Leading Core Search Enhacements for better Customer Experience Product Discoverability in terms of Showing the most relevant items being asked for. Working alongside Data Science Org on better precision and recall. Leading the GenAI Search Team solving the Next Gen Use Case based Ecommerce Search and also building Conversational Agentic Search Platform.3. Search Platform includes both Runtime and Data Platform teams with technologies ( Tech stack - Java, Solr, Cassandra. Big Data - Flink, Spark. on GCP and Azure )4. Designed and Implemented End to End Variants Experience for Walmart. End to End Implementation of Real Time Stitching Platform which sources Search Relevance Signals for Retrieval and Ranking.6. Scaling Search for Marketplace Expansion beyond 20Bn+ Catalog Items.7. Own the Marketplace Acceleration for Search Platform.
Education
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
iLead - Executive Programme, Business and Strategy, Design Thinking, ALP
2021 — 2022
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics
1997 — 2001
C-DAC Mumbai
Diploma in Advanced Computing
2001 — 2002
Skills
- Project Management
- Revenue Assurance
- Partner Settlement
- Software Project Management
- Bss
- Solution Architecture
- Software Development
- Telecommunications
- Analysis
- Team Management
- Oracle
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