Experience

Anyscale

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of Engineering

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  Leading the engineering team across Open Source Ray and Anyscale.

• Head of Anyscale Cloud Product Engineering + GM Customer Success (Product, Eng, Sales, SA)

  • Nov 2021 - Jun 2023

  Auckland, New Zealand The vision of Anyscale is to make distributed computing and scaling machine learning as simple as clicking a button. No need to worry about scaling, latency or a host of other production issues. Check out the summit talk: https://www.anyscale.com/ray-summit-2021/agenda/anyscale-keynotes#details Why did I join? https://www.anyscale.com/blog/why-i-joined-anyscale-Jaikumar-Ganesh Based on Ray (https://www.ray.io/) - one of the fastest growing Open source software in recent… Show more The vision of Anyscale is to make distributed computing and scaling machine learning as simple as clicking a button. No need to worry about scaling, latency or a host of other production issues. Check out the summit talk: https://www.anyscale.com/ray-summit-2021/agenda/anyscale-keynotes#details Why did I join? https://www.anyscale.com/blog/why-i-joined-anyscale-Jaikumar-Ganesh Based on Ray (https://www.ray.io/) - one of the fastest growing Open source software in recent times - which is used by multiple startups and companies.

• Head of Engineering - Interim

  • Feb 2022 - Apr 2022

  Lead the entire engineering org for Anyscale.



Various

• Technical Advisor and Mentor - NZ startups and VCs

  • May 2021 - Present

  Auckland, New Zealand Advising and helping out startups and VC firms in NZ



Uber

• United States
• Internet Marketplace Platforms
• 700 & Above Employee

• Advisory Role

  • May 2021 - Oct 2021

• Director of Engineering - Uber AI, Engineering Lead - International Growth

  • Jun 2015 - Apr 2021

  At Uber, I have built and led Growth teams, Product teams, Platform Teams, Applied Machine Learning teams as well as teams cutting cross all of engineering for defining the next generation Uber Architecture. I also founded and was the lead for the Bangalore Engineering office. - Co Lead of the Uber AI group, the main machine learning org at Uber. The entire group is ~130 people and is the central ML group at Uber. - Led a team of ML Engineers, Research Scientists, backend and… Show more At Uber, I have built and led Growth teams, Product teams, Platform Teams, Applied Machine Learning teams as well as teams cutting cross all of engineering for defining the next generation Uber Architecture. I also founded and was the lead for the Bangalore Engineering office. - Co Lead of the Uber AI group, the main machine learning org at Uber. The entire group is ~130 people and is the central ML group at Uber. - Led a team of ML Engineers, Research Scientists, backend and mobile engineers. - Uber AI group consists of Uber's Machine Learning Platform (Michelangelo) , AI Building Blocks (Computer Vision, Location, Sensor, Personalization systems), and targeted Engagements based on ML expertise with product teams at Uber. Previously, - In Maps: Sensors and Location - Our mission is to use the rich array of sensors and draw semantic inferences from them to solve problems ranging from Safety, Fraud, Pickup Experience etc. The team solves problems across mobile devices (Android, iOS), hardware, backend real time driver / rider location, large-scale near real time data, machine learning to develop inferences from raw sensor data and improve location accuracy. - Leadership team of Growth (200 person team) Growth at Uber handled top of funnel, signup funnel, engagement, referrals and financial incentives for riders and partners in every region of the world. - International Growth: Built and led engineering teams for solving problems local to the India, LatAm and EMEA markets. - Launched features like cash which are responsible for majority of new rides which increases marketshare from single digit to market leader in India

• Director of Engineering - Office of the CTO

  • 2018 - 2019

  Led multiple cross functional projects across Uber engineering leading a group of Senior Staff and Staff engineers. Most notable - The effort to define and execute on Uber's next generation platform focussed architecture. https://eng.uber.com/microservice-architecture/



Uber

• United States
• Internet Marketplace Platforms
• 700 & Above Employee

• Founded and Site Lead - Uber Bangalore Engineering Center

  • Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

  Established Uber Bangalore Engineering Center - First engineering office in Asia - Focussing on growing Uber's business in India I executed on this remotely, being based in San Francisco Vision - Established the vision for the projects on this office Hiring - Grew the team from 0 to 30, campus recruiting trips to IIT and managing senior engineer assignments from San Francisco. Helped hire a Local Site lead to hand it over. Multiple press interviews to the… Show more Established Uber Bangalore Engineering Center - First engineering office in Asia - Focussing on growing Uber's business in India I executed on this remotely, being based in San Francisco Vision - Established the vision for the projects on this office Hiring - Grew the team from 0 to 30, campus recruiting trips to IIT and managing senior engineer assignments from San Francisco. Helped hire a Local Site lead to hand it over. Multiple press interviews to the Indian media when the office was opened Press: http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/uber-opens-engineering-centre-in-bengaluru/article8337376.ece Show less



Nextbit Systems

• Engineering (acquired by Razer Inc)

  • Jul 2013 - Jun 2015

  Nextbit is a San Francisco-based startup building transformative mobile experiences by rethinking how people interact with their devices, the cloud and each other through technology that challenges the conventional wisdom in mobile OS and cloud computing paradigms. Was involved in the growth of the company to 30 people and seed Funding to 18 million Series-A "Android and iOS were created in 2005/06 time frame. Today, there are multiple devices like wearables, internet of things… Show more Nextbit is a San Francisco-based startup building transformative mobile experiences by rethinking how people interact with their devices, the cloud and each other through technology that challenges the conventional wisdom in mobile OS and cloud computing paradigms. Was involved in the growth of the company to 30 people and seed Funding to 18 million Series-A "Android and iOS were created in 2005/06 time frame. Today, there are multiple devices like wearables, internet of things, phones, tablets. Cloud integration with various services is the norm of the day. What if the various properties of the web, multiple devices, cloud became first class citizens ? What will the OS look like if designed with these in mind as first class citizens instead of being added as afterthoughts ?"​ Nextbit Robin was the first phone created with these in mind Role: Leading and managing the engineering team's execution of releases (around 13 people), maintaining engineering best practices like code reviews, testing, code quality, continuous build systems, involved in design, product, strategy, hands on engineering work, hiring and growing the team etc. I play a multifaceted role in this growing startup. Press articles: First Product: http://bgr.com/2014/10/27/nextbit-baton-download-announcement-cyanogenmod/ Series A: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/14/nextbit/ Show less



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager, Staff Software engineer

  • Jul 2006 - Jul 2013

  Summary: One of the early team members of Android. Android has shipped billions of devices and has had a positive impact on lives of people. Involved in development and release of all versions of Android from 1.0 to Android Kitkat. Promoted 4 times. Android at Google is both a platform and product. All the efforts below involved shipping Nexus devices (as a product), the platform which enabled the ecosystem ranging from chipset manufacturers to third party app… Show more Summary: One of the early team members of Android. Android has shipped billions of devices and has had a positive impact on lives of people. Involved in development and release of all versions of Android from 1.0 to Android Kitkat. Promoted 4 times. Android at Google is both a platform and product. All the efforts below involved shipping Nexus devices (as a product), the platform which enabled the ecosystem ranging from chipset manufacturers to third party app developers. Roles Engineering Manager and Tech Lead (Location, Context Client team) - Led an excellent team of people. Responsible for all aspects of Location and Context on the Android Client side. Apart from being used by every third party app, it is also the building block for contextual apps like Google Now. Released APIs for activity recognition, location improvement, better integration with chipsets in 2013. Talks: https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/325337477 - Google I/O 2013 Tech Lead (Project involving Android and Chrome) - Led the Android side in this ambitious cross functional project between Android and Chrome teams. Delivered a demo to the CEO of Google. Tech Lead (Android Bluetooth including Low Energy - full stack), Software Engineer (Android Telephony, Phone application) Led business development, legal deals with Broadcom for Android Bluetooth, represented Google at Bluetooth conferences, Bluetooth Standards body. Led the vision for and execution of Android Bluetooth, jointly led the feature and roadmap development of Android Location-Context teams. Tech Lead, Software Engineer - Design, Implementation lead, software engineer for Android communications, Location and Context. Involved in all layers of the system from device bringup to kernel to framework to APIs for developers. Show less



Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software engineer

  • Jul 2002 - Jul 2004

  Software Engineer - Worked on the Browser team for Motorola devices with teams located in US and India. Expertise in technologies involving the browser like Wireless Application Protocol, CSS. Helped develop the rendering engine for browsers on Motorola platform. Shipped many pre-smartphone devices like Razr to the European and Japanese markets. Promoted within a year in engineering.