Rishi Dua [email protected] | rishidua.com Toronto,

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

IIT DELHI, LINKEDIN | Senior Software Engineer Aug 2019 – Present B.Tech & M.Tech Core Ads API Toronto, ON (Dual Degree) • Led migration of Core Ads API to new standardized error format, launched June 2020, Electrical Engineering leading to 2.5% increase in ad spend and 3.3% increase in campaign completion rate 2010 - 2015 | GPA: 8.5 • Interviewed Enterprise customers to understand pain points around errors, evaluated Teaching Assistant for data on customer complaints to define roadmap for improving errors Digital Signal Processing • Helped external API partners migrate to new errors, presenting launch demo to select advertisers, addressing feedback from beta customers, and sending surveys after GA NTHU, • Driving company-wide standardized errors adoption, by defining best practices for 2012 | Exchange scholarship errors, guiding and aligning teams, achieving 22.7% drop in customer support cases • Designing a versioning strategy along with Ads, platform and infrastructure teams, to SKILLS streamline making breaking changes to LinkedIn’s API for large enterprise customers

• Java • Designing APIs | Software Engineer July 2015 - Aug 2019 • Large scale migrations Hotels Search Mountain View, CA • Cross team collaborations • Dart (readability reviewer) • Designed and built end to end hotel review writing experience, on and , encouraging longer review text, and providing structured trip data • Architected schemas and APIs, led migrations, and collaborated across different SIDE PROJECTS product areas including Maps APIs, storage infrastructure, and search frameworks • Led the launch of hotel review writing UI on desktop and mobile web that increased Apps on review volume, being primary point of contact for product, UX, legal, and privacy teams Drinkify, drink recommender • Owned integration of hotel reviews with Google Opinion Rewards, a rewards-based PaletteArt, a photo editor program, generating 1000s of hotel review surveys per day from users stay history React Your Way, ProductHunt (goo.gl/ayncKg) YouTube - Video Ads Creation San Bruno, CA • First engineer on front-end of YT Director Mix, enabling advertisers to create multiple Teaching at Google variations from a single video ad. (TechCrunch: tcrn.ch/2fLx8dC, BI: read.bi/2xlbOpp) ML Bootcamp - • Architected a front-end server for Director Mix, using existing Google Java frameworks Intro to TensorFlow • Implemented features for sharing projects and inviting users, for all Director products CA, NY, India • Initiated a 20% project to automate client on-boarding, eliminating support requests Grow with Google OK, AL, NC, NM Inbox by Hyderabad, India Applied CS with Android - India • Designed and enabled continuous memory and latency tests for Inbox Android app • Integrated performance monitoring libraries into Inbox, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Drive PUBLICATION • Built a tool used by 50+ teams to visualize app performance and send regression alerts

Tunable optical switching NICTA | Machine Learning Research Intern Optics Express 2017 May 2014 – July 2014 Canberra, • Fine-grained the friend sensor model, for preemptive trend detection on social media AWARDS • Identified central users by modeling network of 20 million users from 2 billion tweets • 14 Bravo awards at LinkedIn • 8 spot, 4 peer bonus at Google SONY | Software Engineer Intern • 3rd in CanSat competition May 2013 – July 2013 Tokyo, 40 teams from 28 nations Performed sentiment analysis of tweets and customer reviews to examine brand equity • All India 386 in IIT-JEE exam UW-MADISON | Research Intern (Khorana Scholar) LINKS May 2012 – July 2012 Madison, WI Wrote scripts to detect pivotal sequences and predict effects of transcription factors • LinkedIn: rishirdua • GitHub: rishirdua • Blog: rishidua.com TEKNOVATES | Co-founder Sept 2011 – Oct 2014 New Delhi, India Built CMS plugins and portals for online education and exams

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