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Tidbits from Aijt Varma
Monday, February 06, 2012
Writing more blog posts
I haven't really ever blogged much but I'm hoping to write more in the next year. First I'm going to revamp my page theme (maybe move to Wordpress or Tumblr) and then looking for topics to write about so let me know if you have any suggestions!
Friday, October 01, 2010
Ajit Varma Resume
Ajit Varma ajit613 [@] gmail.com
Adku
CEO/Co-Founder - San Francisco, California
August 2010 - now
Well funded startup working on solving difficult technical problems. We're in stealth mode.
* As Ads Quality Czar, led efforts to remove low quality ads from Google search and content network. Reduced bad ads rate from 15% to 3.9% as measured by human eval in 1.5 years.
* Group Product Manager for Google's core search quality and personalized search teams including Web Search, Search Ranking, Google Suggest, Travel Search, Web History and several unreleased products. Developed Google’s 2009 search strategy and developed board letter and earnings calls sheets.
* First PM for Google's people management software which scaled as Google's employee base grew 15x.
* Consistently rated as strongly exceeds expectations (top 8% of Google).
* Presented frequently to company founders and executive management group about product strategy for many focus areas (search quality, ads quality and internal systems)
eBay
Product Manager - Campbell, California
Deloitte Consulting
Software Engineer and Manager - San Francisco, California
EXPERIENCE
Adku
CEO/Co-Founder - San Francisco, California
August 2010 - now
Well funded startup working on solving difficult technical problems. We're in stealth mode.
Google
Ads Quality Czar, Group Product Manager - Mountain View, California
Ads Quality Czar, Group Product Manager - Mountain View, California
December 2004 – August 2010
Responsible for product strategy, strategic vision, and product requirements for a variety of products. Direct manager for a team of 4 product managers with an 80+ person engineering team.
Responsible for product strategy, strategic vision, and product requirements for a variety of products. Direct manager for a team of 4 product managers with an 80+ person engineering team.
* As Ads Quality Czar, led efforts to remove low quality ads from Google search and content network. Reduced bad ads rate from 15% to 3.9% as measured by human eval in 1.5 years.
* Group Product Manager for Google's core search quality and personalized search teams including Web Search, Search Ranking, Google Suggest, Travel Search, Web History and several unreleased products. Developed Google’s 2009 search strategy and developed board letter and earnings calls sheets.
* First PM for Google's people management software which scaled as Google's employee base grew 15x.
* Consistently rated as strongly exceeds expectations (top 8% of Google).
* Presented frequently to company founders and executive management group about product strategy for many focus areas (search quality, ads quality and internal systems)
eBay
Product Manager - Campbell, California
June 2004 - December 2004
Category, Search and Attributes group. Managed efforts to make things easier to find on eBay including search filters, category navigation, catalog data feeds for listings to generate product attributes and homepage promotions
Deloitte Consulting
Software Engineer and Manager - San Francisco, California
May 2000 – June 2004
Responsible for developing client strategy and leading teams to develop software applications within Deloitte Consulting’s Technology Group. Managed engineering team with offshore and onshore teams through the entire project lifecycle from project proposal, project sale, hiring of contractors, budget management, design, development, testing, and documentation. As a software engineer I also wrote code for many top tier websites such as Agilent.com. Directv.com, various B2B exchanges, etc.
Responsible for developing client strategy and leading teams to develop software applications within Deloitte Consulting’s Technology Group. Managed engineering team with offshore and onshore teams through the entire project lifecycle from project proposal, project sale, hiring of contractors, budget management, design, development, testing, and documentation. As a software engineer I also wrote code for many top tier websites such as Agilent.com. Directv.com, various B2B exchanges, etc.
Accenture
Analyst - Palo Alto, California
Analyst - Palo Alto, California
August 1999 to May 2000
Consultant for select high technology group where I developed a wide variety of web applications using both Microsoft and open source technologies. Responsible for client side and server side programming.
Consultant for select high technology group where I developed a wide variety of web applications using both Microsoft and open source technologies. Responsible for client side and server side programming.
EDUCATION
University of Texas - Austin
University of Texas - Austin
Graduated 1999
BS in Electrical Engineering Honors Program with a Computer Science Concentration
Graduated from college at 18 by finishing 4 year degree in 2 years (fastest ever)
Awarded Full Academic Scholarship (E. Cockrell Scholar, MBank Scholar) SAT 1530 M:800 V:730 GMAT: 750
BS in Electrical Engineering Honors Program with a Computer Science Concentration
Graduated from college at 18 by finishing 4 year degree in 2 years (fastest ever)
Awarded Full Academic Scholarship (E. Cockrell Scholar, MBank Scholar) SAT 1530 M:800 V:730 GMAT: 750
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Starting Adku
I'm happy to announce that we've just acquired the domain http://www.adku.com for our startup. It took a bit of time to actually find a name we LOVE, negotiate the terms to buy it, actually transfer the domain and finally start using it but now we have it.
We're still in stealth mode but we're doing some really amazing things to help ecommerce sites. If you'd like to know more just send me an email.
When we were starting a company we had two musts - 1. Do something that was impossible to have done more than 2 years ago and 2. Create an innovative new technology that takes advantage of our strong engineering skills. We've gotten some pretty amazing feedback so stay tuned for the exciting things to come!
Also we're hiring so send us over your resume if you're interested in working on big problems.
We're still in stealth mode but we're doing some really amazing things to help ecommerce sites. If you'd like to know more just send me an email.
When we were starting a company we had two musts - 1. Do something that was impossible to have done more than 2 years ago and 2. Create an innovative new technology that takes advantage of our strong engineering skills. We've gotten some pretty amazing feedback so stay tuned for the exciting things to come!
Also we're hiring so send us over your resume if you're interested in working on big problems.
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