Scaling product and teams to build platforms that defines the future of work.

Head of Web Search and Open Domain Question Answering team in Siri. 

Created and driven the vision of Web content powered Question Answering in Siri. Recruited a team of data scientists, NLP experts, Deep Learning researchers in cutting edge Machine Comprehension area. Lead the evolution of higher-order deep learning inferencing and semantic search platform for natural language search. Recruited and formed a 25 member team in Apple, hiring Engineering managers, Research scientists and Platform engineers to power the Search platform. 

Led the evolution of Search indexing from text-based to semantic indexing, with online Learning to Rank capabilities. Author of the first version of Web Domain Influence computation, Graph based Crawler, Query suggestion ranking, Search Ranking and Question Answering modules. Primary author of 5 patents filed in Search relevance and ranking, Query Prediction, Web content quality prediction

Architect of Topsy's analytics platform, a real time and complete historical analytics engine over the entire web's social content. Build the Machine learning models for geo tagging, influencer prediction, sentiment analysis. Pioneering the adoption of MapReduce, HBase creating one of the biggest installations of HBase of the time. Led the vision and execution of migration from AWS to on-prem Hadoop powered data center. Led the evolution of analytics engine to Search Index based architecture

Part of the ticker plant which develops low latency database for global financial data. Build the sanity monitor suite for database integrity and availability. The suite was critical in ensuring high availability of the database.

Developed an API search functionality involving XML parsing using C++
Re-factored an existing JavaScript module with Object Oriented Design 
Developed an event scheduling application with C++, MySQL using OTL library

Acted as a J2EE architect in development, customization of JOA- A J2EE architecture for the development of e-governance along with business component development using J2EE
Handled Release Management activities and executed the first roll-out of the project in one of the customer location, with the additional responsibility of customer training and supervision
Obtained the 'Star Performer' award in TCS for the effective customer interaction during project roll-out
Acted as the Module representative during the user acceptance testing in TCS headquarters, Delhi, with the responsibility of coordination, technical supervision of a 4 member team
Worked on application usability analysis as requirement analysis of the next phase of development

•	Developed a J2EE POC model using the frameworks Tapestry, Spring, Hibernate and Ajax running on MySQL for a major redesign of the product
•	Developed generic data models and APIs for Storage Servers such NetApp, Hitachi, EMC in Java
•	Developed Java based multi-threaded data querying clients which talked to virtualization software, storage servers and backup software
•	Developed parser modules in Perl to process Network MIB files from different Storage servers
•	Acted as a pre-sales executive, handling product demos for prospective customers in India and UK demographic

Saravana Kumar

Director of Engineering