Rahul Ahlawat

Technical Product Program Management Leadership (Ad & Ai Platform) @Snap Inc.

Owned the vertical stack across all of Monetization Engineering (Ad Delivery, Ad Ranking, Targeting & Measurement, Auction Marketplace, Advertiser platform)- an org of 450+ engineers - to pursue key strategic initiatives, roadmap, XFN programs & investigations utilizing skills in software engineering, data science and machine learning- Closely partnered with Accounts, Sales, PMM teams to understand customer pain points and pursue them in investigations and/or roadmap - Created ETL pipelines, data deep-dives, automation tooling & Python notebooks for business analytics - Establishing metrics and instrumenting them for performance measurement across the board (client, ML model scores, calibration, feature drift, AUC/NCE, etc.)- Owned product operations within our domain including infrastructure (server operations, capacity planning, infra cost management, cloud vendor management), incident reviews, data governance, ML operations (ranking and recommendations), Budget A/B platform and marketplace performance. Prior to Monetization, worked in SnapLab leading XFN teams of 50+ HW/SW/CV engineers to develop 2nd gen AR glasses including component technology roadmaps for sensors, cameras, SoC, projector and waveguides as well as CV components (VIO/SLAM, hand tracking, etc.), tradeoffs analysis, risk assessment and prototyping