About

Krishna Azad Tripathi is an experienced Software Development Engineer with a specialization in Search Semantics. Currently working at Flipkart, he is responsible for solving complex search problems, optimizing search query paths, and mentoring SDEs across the semantics team. Krishna has an extensive background in Big Data and Analytics, having worked at Walmart Labs in the past. Krishna has a Master's Degree in Data Science from IIIT Bangalore, where he was among the top 10 students. He is skilled in Java, Python, R-language, Apache Spark, and various other tech stacks. Krishna has filed a total of 5 patents, 3 of which are at Flipkart in Selection Gap solves in search domain and autosuggestion. He has also published research on user query intent at the European Conference on Information Retrieval in 2020. At Walmart, Krishna worked on various projects, including the Systemic Data Validator (SDV), Data Quality Platform, Image Data Quality, and Log Analyzer. He was the project owner and responsible for feature delivery and bug fixing. The SDV tool, which can handle 100s of millions of records from various databases, has a patent claimed successfully. Krishna was involved in the end-to-end product development, design discussions, and various optimization for faster comparison results. Krishna's work at Flipkart involves designing and building software-oriented architectures to serve the Flipkart search flows, data engineering tasks to use available data sources efficiently to train machine learning models, and understanding user query problems to participate in building machine learning models and performing NLP tasks to cater to various classification needs. In his leisure time, Krishna enjoys singing, playing the guitar, and solving random data structure problems. With over 7 years of relevant experience, Krishna is a skilled Software Engineer, Search expert, Data Scientist, Information Retrieval specialist, ML practitioner, Spark and Big Data enthusiast, Research Scientist, and NLP professional.