Ganesh Venkataraman
AI Exec at Amazon
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolGanesh Venkataraman is a seasoned technology leader in applied science and AI, currently Director of Applied Science at Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, guiding personalized recommendations and cross-device experiences. He previously scaled Snap's Core Growth and Search team to 150+ engineers across multiple continents, driving DAU growth from 300M to 450M+ and delivering a planet-scale graph understanding platform for complex social graphs. At Airbnb, he built and led the growth engineering function, aligning engineering, product, and leadership to accelerate business impact, and he contributed to LinkedIn’s search and recommendations stack. A prolific researcher and innovator, he holds ~18 patents and 20+ ML publications, with notable work on embedding-based retrieval and search systems showcased at SIGIR 2023–2024. He earned a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering and has held leadership roles across major tech companies, with roots in Mountain View, California, driven by a passion for building scalable systems that empower people to succeed.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and SciencePhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityM.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Iowa
Tamil, Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
174reputation
6kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (7)
graph6
pep86
ide6
vector6
algorithm6
instant-search3
search-engine3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
gvenkataraman/machine-learning-tools
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
linkedin/instantsearch-tutorial
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Sample code for building an end-to-end instant search solution
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 11 days
end-to-endsearch-engineinstant-searchsearchinstant
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