Udaya Kiran

About Udaya Kiran

At Youtube, Uday is the eng leader and site lead for YouTube infra, focusing on Applied AI for engineering. Earlier - At Google Search, Uday led personalized content recommendations across surfaces, serving over 1 billion monthly active users. Prior roles include leading Media.net’s multi-functional teams (170+) and driving significant revenue growth. Also, as the first engineering leader for Alexa consumer experiences in APAC, uday built india focused conversational products including launching voice commerce on Amazon mobile app.With over 12+ years in engineering leadership, including 6+ years of product leadership too, they specialize in building large scale consumer internet, distributed systems and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Their expertise spans across applied AI/ML(agents, context, evals), full-stack consumer apps (mobile+web), distributed systems, video streaming, real time communication, search/recommendation systems and a spectrum of diverse domains.People Focus - Led tech orgs of size 170+, including multiple levels of managers and functions. They have been a strong advocate of high-performing, diverse, and inclusive teams and coached multiple engineers, managers, and engineering site leads over 10+ years.

Experience

1. Engineering Leader - Google Search

   Google

   Dec 2021 — Present · IN

   India site lead for Google Discover - personalized content feed (time bound). Functional Focus - Experience, infra and quality of content feed for 0.5B daily active users, 1.7B+ devices across Android surfaces.

Education

• Sapthagiri Jr. College

  Intermediate (class XI & XII), Maths, Physics & Chemistry

• Vellore Institute of Technology

  B.Tech, Computer Science

Skills

• User Experience
• Angularjs
• Program Management
• Enterprise Software
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Scalability
• Php
• Product Management
• Code Review
• Prototype.js
• E-Commerce
• Sql
• Linux
• Team Management
• Large Scale Systems
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Technical Leadership
• Social Networking
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Proof of Concept
• Phonegap
• Ejabberd
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Html
• Software Project Management
• Actionscript
• Technological Innovation
• Elixir
• Technical Recruiting
• Team Mentoring
• Xml
• Agile Methodologies
• Rtmp
• Management
• Java
• Ruby
• Leadership