About

Karan Rai is an accomplished Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience in the technology industry. He currently works at Google as a Software Engineer in the Discover team, where he focuses on Quality and Ranking. He has a proven track record of designing, owning, and implementing various features end-to-end, including integration with backend/frontend, analysis, quality tuning, and experimentation. Before joining Google, Karan spent two years at Microsoft as a Software Engineer in the Substrate Search Suggestions team. Here, he helped improve email search suggestion relevance, owned search experimentation scorecards, and maintained and improved data mining pipelines. He was also part of the on-call rotation and helped in live site monitoring of the product through mitigation steps and engaging partner teams. Karan has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Stanford, specializing in Artificial Intelligence. During his time at Stanford, he did a summer internship at Apple in the iOS Power Analytics Team. Karan's technical expertise includes Search, Recommendation Systems, Corpus, iOS, Integration, Frontend, and Backend. He has a passion for data analysis and has analyzed user engagement data to identify and implement several improvements to retrieval and ranking algorithms. Overall, Karan is a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer who has worked at some of the biggest names in the tech industry. He is a dedicated and hardworking individual who is constantly striving to improve his skills and knowledge in the field.