Shankar Bhargava
Limited Partner at Red Swan Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
VP of Engineering
2012 - Current
AI Assistants & Retail AI: 2019-Present I lead a group focused on reinventing how customers shop online and in-store. My teams work at the intersection of AI (LLMs, Computer Vision, Image-Generation, Recommendations) and large scale shopping data to reinvent how customers shop online and in-store. Leading a team of 150+ ML scientists and engineers across multiple locations - California, New York, Toronto, Bentonville and Bengaluru. Driving technology strategy, long term roadmaps, strategic partnerships and acquisitions. Also leading Generative AI tech strategy across Walmart. Engineering partner for Walmart's incubation arm - https://www.storeno8.com https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/tagged/voice-assistant https://tech.walmart.com/content/walmart-global-tech/en_us/news/articles/three-ways-we-are-using-conversational-ai-at-walmart.html Customer Identity Platform, Open APIs and Social Commerce: 2018-2020 (Dir/Sr. Dir of Eng) Lead the development of largest omni-channel customer identity and data platform in the industry and its applications across eCommerce. Led the development of Walmart's Open APIs for marketing and partnerships (https://walmart.io). Scaled the shopping experiences outside of Walmart's core site and app across affiliate partners and social commerce channels. Scaled the channel by $xxxM in revenue. Marketing and Advertising Products: 2012 - 2017 (Principal Engineer/Dir of Engineering) Incubated and led multiple products across marketing and advertising including search optimization, display & paid social marketing and affiliate marketing. - Conceptualized, designed and built platforms to drive $X Billions in revenue for Walmart. - Lead data scientists, applied ML researchers and engineers (PhDs and Masters) in developing relevance models for sponsored product-ads for monetization and attribution, targeting & bid models for marketing.
Walmart Global Tech uses technology to operate smarter and deliver everyday low prices (EDLP) to customers and members.
LP
2021
LP
2021
Firsthand.vc is an inception stage VC investing in autonomous B2B software across industries.
Angel Investor & Advisor
2019
Software Engineer - Search
2010 - 2012
- Designed and implemented algorithms to improve relevancy of Salesforce.com search - Conceived and lead development of new features like 'suggested searches' - Drove the adoption of metric-driven approach for feature development. Designed and built tools and frameworks for relevancy evaluation using Hadoop and Pig.
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
Raised $65,375,124.00 from Starboard Value.
Software Research Engineer
2008 - 2011
• Founding member of the Kindle Bulk Ingestion team with the goal of automatically converting scanned image and PDF files to reflowable ebook format • Designing and building machine learning classifiers for document, page, and text analysis • Working on architecture and design of large-scale distributed document conversion pipeline
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
Research Assistant, Data Mining & Machine Learning
2006 - 2008
• Conducted research in the areas of Web Mining, Feature Selection, Information Integration and Machine Learning • Designed and Implemented algorithms for Feature selection, Data Integration, Web page classification, Blog Clustering and Collaborative Tagging of Blogs. Published the works in peer-reviewed workshops, conferences and journals
Senior Software Engineer
2003 - 2006
Lead a team of developers in designing and developing a large scale ‘Workflow Management System’ used to automate business processes