About

Padma Priya Gaggara is a highly experienced software team leader with over 22 years of relevant experience in the design and execution of products and services software. As the Partner Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft, she is responsible for bringing the best of Bing search technology to enterprise data in a compliant and secure way through Bing@Work. With a proven track record of delivering high-quality products on schedule, leading technology innovation, and successful teams in dynamic organizations with global presence, Padma has extensive development and management experience in areas of Systems and Search. She has a broad technical background and is highly skilled in senior software engineering, search, and ML. Padma is an excellent team leader, with a proven ability to train and retain strong talent. She has led teams of up to seven people, responsible for image and video ranking techniques, click aggregation projects, associating authoritative images/videos for entities like people and music, and driving UX scenarios on top of structured and definitive data. She has also pushed the boundary in triggering image and video answers using various ML trained models and continuous improvements to stack on Bing.com for both en-us and all international markets. In her previous role as Senior Development Lead at Bing, Padma led a team of five people and designed and implemented the DSAT tool to facilitate identifying issues at various parts of the search stack. She trained a popularity model for products and offers and iterated on commerce Ranker training, which showed significant relevance gains. She built various components to improve triggering of Commerce Answer on Bing.com, which led to an unprecedented increase in commerce traffic in a single release. She also worked as a consultant to Ads team to redo QT and triggering components to serve more relevant Ads. Overall, Padma is an accomplished software team leader with a wealth of experience in developing and managing high-quality software products and services. She is a valuable asset to any organization looking for a highly skilled and experienced engineering manager or senior software engineer.