About

Sanket Malde is an accomplished Engineering Leader with over 10 years of experience in databases, search, big data, and content platforms. He is a Principal Software Engineer who is passionate about algorithms, distributed systems, machine learning, content infrastructure, and mathematics. Sanket has a strong educational background, having earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Sanket has worked with some of the biggest tech companies in the world, including Google and Yahoo. At Oracle, he designed and developed critical XMLDB features like "Content Size" and "CSX Summary." He also played a key role in optimizing the performance of Yahoo's web search infrastructure (Webmap) and developing important new features and extensions. As a Principal Engineer at Yahoo, Sanket contributed significantly to the development of Yahoo's Content Enrichment Infrastructure and added machine learning capabilities to it. He has also worked on Sombrero, a framework for machine-learned content classification, entity detection, and ranking, which is used internally by almost all Yahoo! properties for content enrichment to enhance user experience. Sanket has a strong tech stack that includes Senior Software Engineer, infra, ML, Search, Software Engineer, Big Data, and Web. He has three patents and one publication to his credit, demonstrating his innovative approach to problem-solving. Currently, Sanket is an Engineering Manager at Google, where he continues to lead and manage teams of engineers to deliver high-quality products. With almost 19 years of relevant experience, Sanket is a seasoned professional who is highly respected in the industry.