Girish Kumar is a VP of Engineering at Google at Google. He possess expertise in machine learning, distributed systems, information retrieval, scalability, data mining and 61 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Girish was Partner Development Manager for Bing’s Core Relevance development team at Microsoft. I was his counterpart from Program Management so we worked very closely together. The Core Relevance team at Bing was responsible for overall quality of search results at Bing.com. Girish successfully led a complex, large organization of hundreds of engineers in multiple R&D sites across the world working on web ranking, query understanding, query rewriting, search quality metrics, whole page relevance, and related technologies. He had been in Microsoft’s core search for nearly ten years starting as a developer, then architect, and later on engineering manager. His expertise and understanding of the entire relevance stack and infrastructure was extraordinary. Under Girish’s leadership and vision, the Core Relevance team delivered many innovations that helped make Bing a highly competitive search engine. Given his outstanding combination of technical, people, and leadership skills, Girish was one of the most respected and effective R&D managers I’ve met in all my years at Microsoft. He was also a pleasure to work with. I’d recommend Girish highly for any complex architecture or engineering leadership role, especially those in the areas of big data and machine learning.", "I had the privilege of working with Girish for 4 years, 3 of them reporting to him. He is extremely sharp, listens well, incorporates feedback, sets vision, and facilitates collaboration among teams -- all attributes you seek in a leader. He was a steady hand at the tiller as he led the Core Relevance team through challenging times. It was an honor working for him.", and "I had the pleasure of reporting to Girish for part of the 2+ years he was in charge of the engineering team working on improving web search relevance at Bing. Under his management the team had a highly successful period of innovation and relevance improvements that saw Bing's web search ranking improve drastically to be competitive with Google. I have no doubt this success was largely due to Girish's outstanding leadership; he is one of those few managers who is highly technically knowledgeable and capable yet also a remarkable people person, manager and team leader. He had a reasonably deep technical understand of each project that was underway in his team, which is impressive given its size and breadth of scope. He also brought valuable thought leadership and vision to the organisation, focusing not just on immediate improvements to Bing but also on long-term infrastructure developments that would ensure Bing's future success. I personally enjoyed working with Girish and learnt a lot from him, especially about long-term technical vision and people management. I would gladly work with him again in the future given the chance."