Senior Engineering Manager - AI/Machine Learning and Software Engineering
Dec 2022 - Present
• 2 yrs 6 mosSenior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
Mar 2014 - Present
• 11 yrs 3 mos- Leading a world-class team of ML Applied and Research managers, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) Scientists & Engineers, Data Scientists, and Software Engineers.
- Leads the development of language understanding in Siri, Apple’s conversational assistant, and Search across Apple products in worldwide languages. Siri and Search are essential for various Apple products in worldwide markets significantly impacting Apple’s revenue.
- Strategy and execution with leadership (Directors, VPs and above) to realize vision and roadmap into products.
- Experience with various data and technology evaluations and licensing for Apple from around the world and integrating them with various Apple products.
- Extensive experience leading and working with global and cross-functional organizations at Apple.
Senior Machine Learning and NLP Engineer
Oct 2013 - Feb 2014
• 5 mosMachine Learning and NLP Engineer
Oct 2011 - Sep 2013
• 2 yrs
Advisory Board Member, Customer Experience (CX) Program
UC Irvine
Mar 2022 - Feb 2024
• 2 yrsAdvisory Board Member for the Customer Experience Program, University of California - Irvine

Senior Applications Engineer
Oracle
Oct 2008 - Oct 2011
• 3 yrs 1 moCross Product data integration and data acquisition solutions in Oracle Fusion products family.
1. Data integration solution between Oracle Fusion Project and Oracle SCM where I designed and implemented the complete Oracle web services solution for sharing and passing data across two products (Oracle Fusion Projects and Oracle Fusion SCM cost management) within Oracle Fusion product family. Negotiated the requirements with other team's PMs and developers so as to keep the design as simple as possible at the same time cover the requirements for either product.
2. Data acquisition solution between Oracle Inventory management and Oracle cost management products where I designed and implemented SOA solution to interface very large amount of data from source product to Oracle SCM cost management, improving the data acquisition time by 60%.
Embedded help in Oracle Fusion cost management UIs
Developed embedded help features in Oracle Fusion SCM UIs by closely working with PMs and other developers and received appreciation from customers during demo on features implemented for embedded help.
Accessibility features in Oracle Fusion cost management UIs
Worked with Oracle accessibility team to bring the accessibility features to Oracle Fusion SCM's cost management product; finally making it accessible to much wider variety of enterprise customers.
Received high visibility and appreciation across various teams and products in Oracle Fusion products as a result of successful completion of above projects single handedly resulting in excellent appraisal throughout my career.
Non project accomplishments
1. Participated in line of business customer training on Oracle Fusion products thus getting experience in direct customer training and interaction.
2. Contributed to hiring by speaking at university recruiting events and conducting interviews.

Graduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
Oct 2006 - Aug 2008
• 1 yr 11 mosOpinion Analysis System for Blog data - Lead a team of 5 people to build a complete software solution for opinion analysis in Blog data along with the goal of integrating it with Ephyra question answering system.
RADAR - Responsible for the adaptive Logistic Regression classifiers and the briefing assistant
Boeing's F/A-18 Automatic Maintenance Environment - Responsible for recommendation system to help US navy in reducing monetary expenses in maintenance tasks.

Research Assistant and Developer
Universal Digital Library project
Jul 2004 - May 2006
• 1 yr 11 mosText Summarizer for Hindi Documents
InfoQuest - User adaptive Meta search engine
Carnival - A Complete Solution to Movie on Demand System