Kumaresan Manickavelu
Group Product Manager AI at eBay
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKumaresan Manickavelu is a seasoned AI-focused product leader based in San Jose, California, currently guiding AI strategy and delivery as Group Product Manager AI at eBay. Over 9 years at eBay, he has led transformative AI initiatives—from customizing BERT to enhance search to launching multilingual translation models across 13 language pairs that boosted conversion by about 24%. He built scalable SaaS/PaaS and security platforms, delivering a micro-segmentation solution that reduced threat surface by 80% and cut firewall costs by $1M, while automating workflows to accelerate time-to-market. His leadership blends design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile practices to translate market needs into reusable, production-ready features, backed by hands-on expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, TensorFlow, and FastText. Outside core product work, he has explored autonomous-vehicle simulations and developed NLP pipelines such as multilingual NER and zero-shot learning, underscoring a curious, lifelong learner who is also an avid book reader.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B. Tech., Electronics and Communications, B. Tech., Electronics and Communications at National Institute of Technology Warangal
English, Hindi, Tamil
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
serverless8
guidelines8
faas8
documentation7
sublimetext6
paas6
ssh6
ruby-on-rails6
knative6
heroku6
ebay-api6
rspec6
ruby-on-rails-76
rspec-rails6
git6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kmanicka/ebay-api-explorer
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 48 commits, 54 PRs in 4 months
ebayapipythonapi-explorerebay-api
kmanicka/vishnu
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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