Deep Dhillon

Current

Chief Technology Officer at Evri

Past

Director of Engineering for Text Analysis and Search at Insightful
Chief Scientist at Cantametrix
Senior Software Engineer at Metapath

Member of Techical Staff at GTE Laboratories (Now Verizon)

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Education

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Illinois Institute of Technology
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Deep Dhillon’s Summary

Deep Dhillon is an accomplished engineer and systems architect with extensive experience conceptualizing, architecting and deploying multiple advanced networking applications.

Before joining Evri, Mr. Dhillon was the Director of Engineering at Insightful Corporation (now Tibco), in the Text Analysis and Search business division. In this role, he led the development efforts for InFact, a large scale natural language processing based enterprise text analysis platform and search engine. In the summer of 2007, Mr. Dhillon helped oversee incorporating InFact’s intellectual property, core team and technology into Evri.

Prior to Insightful, Mr. Dhillon was a founder and chief scientist at music search and identification company, Cantametrix. At Cantametrix, Mr. Dhillon led a team to build the world's first, large scale, fully automated, digital signal processing based music identification and classification system. This technology has evolved into Sony Gracenote's Music Id technology and is employed daily by millions of users in many diverse applications including Apple's iTunes, Yahoo! Music Engine and many other audio appliances.

Before founding Cantametrix, Mr. Dhillon was a research engineer at Metapath Software International (which became GEC Marconi). Prior to that, Mr. Dhillon was a member of the technical staff at GTE Laboratories (now Verizon), in the Advanced Systems Laboratory, where he developed advanced interactive Internet prototypes and served as a consultant to GTE business units.

Deep Dhillon’s Specialties:

Internet based search systems, object-oriented and knowledge-based systems, software architecture, and audio based search systems.

Deep Dhillon’s Experience

Chief Technology Officer

Evri

(Internet industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Leading development efforts involving deep natural language processing for a large scale consumer application.
Director of Engineering for Text Analysis and Search

Insightful

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; IFUL; Computer Software industry)

August 2001 — July 2007 (6 years )

* Project and Technical Lead for the design, development and deployment of InFact, a scalable natural language based next generation search engine.

* Designed and implemented a large scale work distribution engine, public APIs, and a scalable search system for InFact.

* Introduced and formalized agile project management principals including technical requirements specification, frequent code reviews, extensive nightly builds and automated unit, component and efficacy testing.

* Authored multiple company patents, and other strategic documentation including a book chapter with Springer – Verlog on natural language based search.

* Successfully orchestrated the spin out of InFact technology and personnel into a well funded start up company.
Chief Scientist

Cantametrix

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 6 months)

* Conceptualized, constructed original proof-of-concept prototype, and lead for the design, development and deployment of a digital signal processing and distributed computing based Internet music identification, search and browse engine.

* Lead Architect for the world's first very large scale, high performance, back end Java and Oracle based transactional MusicDNA song fingerprint identification system.

* Technical Lead for developing the algorithms behind the MusicDNA system including DSP fingerprint extraction, mechanisms to reduce large metric space searches, and transfer of technology through to development.

* Technical corporate voice for technical due dilgences by investors, partners and customers. Authored multiple company patents. Provided strategic technical guidance on all product requirements.

* Core technology is used daily by millions of users in many diverse applications including MySpace.com, Apple's iTunes, and many others.
Senior Software Engineer

Metapath

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

September 1998 — November 1999 (1 year 3 months)

* Provided ongoing strategic and technological consultation; constructed proof-of-concept and proof-of-feasibility prototypes using advanced human interface, object modeling and knowledge-based systems techniques.

* Conceptualized, designed, and led the development of Zudo - a component and Petri-net based installation, configuration, and lifecycle management development platform.
Member of Techical Staff

GTE Laboratories (Now Verizon)

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 1996 — March 1998 (1 year 11 months)

* Designed and developed online distributed multi-user virtual environments and infrastructure.

* Designed and developed a Java based Client/Server Group Browsing application for enbling serendipitous real-time multi-party encounters on the web.

* Provided strategic ongoing technological and business consultation to GTE business units.

Deep Dhillon’s Education

University of Wisconsin - Madison

M.S. , Electrical Engineering , August 1993 — August 1994
Illinois Institute of Technology

B.S. , Electrical Engineering , 1989 — 1993
RHS