Gaurav Bhalotia

Current

Director, India Development Center at Retrevo

Past

Director of Engineering at Kosmix Corporation
Technical Lead and Architect at Kosmix Corporation
Member of Technical Staff at Kosmix Corporation

Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Corporation

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Education

University of California Berkeley
IIT Bombay

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Gaurav Bhalotia’s Experience

Director, India Development Center

Retrevo

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Responsible for set-up and operation of Offshore Development Center (ODC) in Pune, India. Guide and drive the development and QA of software development efforts in the India Development Center. Also build and drive a highly productive data management team that delivers high quality data.

Retrevo Inc is building innovating consumer electronic search engine, with a goal to make buying CE an informative and fun experience.
Director of Engineering

Kosmix Corporation

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

June 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Architect and lead the development of next generation search, publish and share platform for massive and global scale; working closely with product management and business teams

Lead multidisciplinary engineering and product teams; architecting, implementing and leading development of large-scale distributed systems, machine learning, and information retrieval algorithms.
Technical Lead and Architect

Kosmix Corporation

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

June 2006 — May 2007 (1 year )

Architecting and coordinating search frontend system. Implementing/inventing/tuning cool ranking and classification algorithms, dealing with large data sets. We are hiring!
Member of Technical Staff

Kosmix Corporation

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

June 2005 — May 2006 (1 year )

Currently at a small search engine start-up, Cosmix Corp. (http://www.cosmixcorp.com) working on cool search algorithms and dealing with large scale data sets.
Senior Member of Technical Staff

Oracle Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

August 2003 — June 2005 (1 year 11 months)

Gaurav Bhalotia’s Education

University of California Berkeley

MS (on leave of absence from PhD program) , Computer Science , August 2001 — August 2003

Recipient of the Berkeley Nano-Bio Fellowship. Worked with Dr. Marti Hearst on Information Retrieval in Bioscience domain. A member of the BioText project (http://biotext.berkeley.edu)

- Built a search engine for bioscience literature (Research and System Building)
- Built Classifiers to identify documents that write about gene/protein functions

- Participated in TREC 2003 (BioScience Track) --- Second position
- Built tools for loading medline into a relational database. Paper published at BioMed Central
IIT Bombay

Btech , Computer Science and Engineering , August 1997 — July 2001

- Ranked 1st in the Department (received the Jayanti Deshmukh Gold Medal) and 2nd in the Institute (Got the IIT Bombay Silver Medal)
- Ranked 56th among 100,000 candidates appearing for the IIT Joint Entrance Examination
- Selected for SIGMOD undergraduate Fellowship 2000, received the award at Dallas, USA.

- Worked with Dr. S. Sudarshan on the BANKS (Browsing and Keyword Searching in Databases)
- Implemented an engine for keyword searching over data stored in relational databases.
- The work was published in International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2002, San Jose, USA)

Activities and Societies:

- General Secretary --- Computer Science and Engineering Association
- System Administrator -- hostel-9 computer network