Vik Singh

Current

• Architect at Yahoo!

Past

• Advisor at Komli, LiveOps, Pubmatic
• Software Engineer at Google
• Researcher at Microsoft Research

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Berkeley

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Vik Singh’s Summary

Vik Singh helped create and design Y! BOSS. He developed BOSS examples like the fresh Delicious Homepage and TweetNews (which Wired called “the best mashup we’ve ever seen”). MIT’s Technology Review listed him as one of the Top 35 under 35 Innovators in 2009. He and his work have been spotlighted in sources like TechCrunch, Wired, WSJ, and CNET. Previously, Vik worked at GOOG and MSFT, in research and products, helping ship Custom Search and XPSP2 Wireless. At MSR, he worked with Jim Gray, co-authoring a paper about the SkyServer. He has filed 9 patents.

Vik Singh’s Experience

• Architect

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  Work with the SVP/GM on Search strategy.
  Created the BOSS project, led the design and concept.
  Shipped the new delicious.com homepage.
  Created TweetNews (Twitter News Search), BOSSy (QnA Search).
  Created the Yahoo-Delicious integrated search product.
  Co-founded the Audience Applied Sciences Group in Y! Labs.

• Advisor

  Komli, LiveOps, Pubmatic

  (Internet industry)

  June 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 10 months)

  Consult the SVP of LiveOps on the LiveWork launch (2008).
  Consult CEO, Eng. of Komli & Pubmatic on early infrastructure (2007).

• Software Engineer

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  May 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  Worked on Google Custom Search (fall 2006 - 2007).
  Developed a Custom Search for Delicious service.
  Worked on Q&A search and Bigtable in research (summer 2005).

• Researcher

  Microsoft Research

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  May 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 4 months)

  Had the greatest honor of working with Jim Gray on data mining the SkyServer web and SQL logs; Co-authored a publication.
  Software Development/Test Engineer (summer 2004) in the Wireless Networking group, helping ship the new wireless experience for XPSP2.

Vik Singh’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  Bachelors , Computer Science , 2003 — 2007

• University of California, Berkeley

  Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2004 — 2006

Additional Information

Vik Singh’s Honors:

MIT Technology Review TR35 Top 35 under 35 Innovator; 2009
Panelist, Web 2.0 The Future of Web Search; 2009
Speaker, SIGIR Open Search; 2009
Panelist, WWW Future of Search APIs; 2009
Filed 9 patents, 1 paper; 2007 - 2009
California State Champion, Policy Debate; 2002
Kentucky Fellow, Top 12 Policy Debaters in the country; 2002

Selected Press:

http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=822
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/18/yahoo-boss-might-be-bigger-than-bing/
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/01/twitter-yahoo-b/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/15/boss-developer-fuses-yahoo-news-with-twitter-to-create-tweetnews/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10143937-2.html
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/131243/Open-Source-Search-Engine-Benchmarks
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sorry_google_you_missed_the_real_time_web.php
http://gigaom.com/2009/08/04/delicious-tries-to-borrow-some-twitter-magic/

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