12 Minute Convos W/ Engel Jones

Seasoned engineer, experienced manager and leader with nearly two decades of expertise in Advertising technology and AI with a solid background in system design, performance optimization and data management. I have been at Google for 12+ years and currently lead strategy and execution of  YouTube monetization on TV screens through Advertising, driving growth through innovative work on format optimizations, prediction modelling, and quality tuning, managing a team of 20+ people. My prior pivotal work includes architecting the core auto-bidding platform as first and foundational engineer for an SEM startup Sokrati, resulting in a latter successful acquisition by a multinational firm; and significant contributions to  Sybase IQ data-warehousing platform as a query performance optimization engineer. Masters in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai 2002-04. Currently pursuing an AI Graduate certificate at Stanford in parallel to work, and participating in cutting edge AI research, as my comm