Ajit Varma Resume

Ajit Varma ajit613 [@] gmail.com

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 

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.

* 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.

Accenture
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.

EDUCATION
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