Pranam Kolari Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

Seoul, Seoul, Kr

Search & Discovery Experiences across Coupang portfolio — Products, Eats, i18n — Section 16 Officer

Mentor, investor, advisor at multiple startups

Stanford, Ca, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Vice President of Engineering, Search (2020-2022): I head the Search Technology team (~300) across multiple locations, managing platform, machine learning and operations. I transformed the engine to be sustainably deep-learning powered, with a rich data capture feedback loop. Drove multiple new initiatives including universal search to bridge the physical and digital. Consistent impact of $xB+ incremental topline annuallySr. Director of Engineering, Search Algorithms (2018-2020): Head of Search Sciences and Engineering. Through the Jet acquisition and integration, I lead a team of 100+ data scientists and machine learning engineers across multiple locations. I drove a massive change in experimentation driven culture, translating into a predictable cadence of significant product impact. Director of Engineering, Search Site Lead (2017-2018): Responsible for search @walmart.com, overseeing e-commerce and grocery experiences. I lead a team of 60+ engineers (Systems, DevOps), data scientists, and product managers in California.Director of Engineering, Search Relevance (2016-2017): Responsible for search relevance @walmart.com. I inherited, and lead a team of 30+ engineers, data scientists, and human annotators.Director of Engineering, Personalization (2013-2015): Helped incubate personalization while driving the recommendation systems platform to maturity, managing the data science, engineering, metrics/insights, and product management functions. Our efforts drove additional +$XxxM in incremental revenue. In delivering the product I mentored and grew the team to 25+ full stack engineers, data scientiss and product managers.Principal Scientist, Recommendation (2012-2013): As tech lead, I rallied a small team (4+) to deliver significant topline impact (+$XxxM) to Walmart, while developing foundational machine learning technology towards future improvements of recommendation experience (e.g. People Who Bought This Also Bought, and many more).

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Technical Leadership and Individual Contributions in various capacities.Yahoo! Personalization (2010-2012): As a key member of CORE/COKE, I contributed to improve user experience metrics on the Yahoo! Network by as much as 100%. Methods covered content selection, explore-exploit, user personalization component (implicit and explicit), and content ranking/recommendation.Yahoo! Search Ranking (2007-2009): As part of MLR (Machine Learnt Ranking) team, my efforts resulted in a cumulative improvement of 0.8% in quality metrics. Noteworthy was the first introduction of social machine learnt features into search ranking functions. Yahoo! Search Spam Detection (2007-2009): As part of Content Classification team, I developed methods to monitor and improve on spam detection and demotion within Yahoo! Search, starting from ideation, to experimentation and production implementation. In spam benchmark tests that followed a year after my contributions, Yahoo! reclaimed the lead against competitors (Google, Bing).

Baltimore, Md, Us

PhD research on Semantic Web, Machine Learning and AI in general. Prof. Tim Finin was my advisor.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Research on automation agents for business workflows, and socially connected enterprise (blogs, messenger) -- what was called Web 2.0.Internships and continued collaboration at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, and IBM Software Labs.Earlier, I worked at IBM India from 2001 to 2002, in India's early Information Technology services industry.

Ph.D, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Science And Engineering, Uvce