Venkat Gunabalan
ML Engineering Leader | Deep Learning, Search Ranking, Vector Search | Scalable ML Systems at Microsoft AI
- Role
- Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft Ai at Microsoft AI
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Venkat Gunabalan
Principal Engineering and Applied Science Manager with over 15 years of experience in driving transformative advancements in NLP based ML systems design and distributed indices owning end to end Local Search (30% global query share) relevance and ranking stack for Bing Search engine & consumer Copilot. Adept at leading cross-organizational teams and aligning stakeholders to achieve significant quality & performance gains, including +40pts LDCG and +35% CTR improvements in Bing and Copilot, impacting over 120 million daily active users. Seasoned expert in query understanding, ranking and vector retrieval, committed to simplifying complex processes and fostering resilient, low-latency solutions at a global scale. Leadership philosophy: Simplify before scaling, Lead from the trenches, Measure what matters, and Design for resilience.
Experience
Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft Ai
Sep 2023 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
Engineering Manager responsible for building highly accurate and low latency User Location Inference Service powering 60+ Microsoft products enabling location-aware recommendation systems, personalization and targeted Ads at scale, not limited to Bing, Copilot, Edge, Xbox, etc.
Education
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering
2006 — 2010
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