About

Raghavan Muthuregunathan is an accomplished Engineering Manager with over 12 years of experience in the field of Search and AI. Currently working at LinkedIn, he holds the position of Engineering Manager - Typeahead Search relevance & SRP Whole Page Optimization. His primary responsibilities include retrieval, ranking, and blending of word suggestions and instant entity results on Typeahead search experiences across LinkedIn. He is also responsible for blending various result clusters on SRP, also known as Whole Page Optimization. Raghavan began his journey at LinkedIn in late 2016 as an engineer in the Query Understanding team. He later moved to the People-Search Ranking team, Instant search, and then to the Typeahead-Search-AI team. He has worked on various projects throughout his tenure, including Typeahead Blending, Autocomplete, Blending Search Results, Instant results on Typeahead, Typeahead instant people search by name, and Ranking/ Retrieval. Apart from LinkedIn, Raghavan also worked as a Data intern at Foursquare, where he developed an algorithm to rank comments made on the Foursquare platform on the venues page. He has a Masters's degree in Computer Science from Columbia Engineering and a B.Tech in Information Technology from Anna University - Madras Institute of Technology. Raghavan's technical skills include Search, Senior Software Engineer, AI, Software Engineer, ML, Research Scientist, and Mobile. He is an expert in his field and has a deep understanding of search algorithms and AI technologies. With his vast experience, he has become a valuable asset to LinkedIn and has made significant contributions to the company's growth.