Jim Reinhold

VP Engineering

LILT AI

Jan 2026 - Current (8 months)

Sr. Director of Engineering

LILT AI

Jan 2025 - Dec 2025 (1 year)

VP Engineering (Interim)

LILT AI

Aug 2024 - Dec 2024 (5 months)

Director Of Engineering

LILT

Nov 2021 - Mar 2024 (2 years 5 months)

Led Lilt's Platform Engineering team, which is responsible for the core services and data infrastructure backing Lilt's AI-enabled translation service in addition to application development for the self-managed version of Lilt. Oversaw ML Engineering and Infrastructure teams. Responsibilities included project planning and prioritization, urgent customer issue resolution and performance management. Executed on custom development projects for Government customers, enabling the company to recognize revenue and/or secure contract extensions in the six and seven-figure range multiple times. Co-led multiple cross-functional projects to integrate third-party LLMs and ASR/OCR functionality into the Lilt platform, giving customers more options f

Software Engineer, Siri Search

Apple

Sep 2016 - Nov 2021 (5 years 3 months)

Led Crawl Quality team for Siri Search's Applebot, a web-scale search engine crawler. With a mission to include the web's most relevant content and keep it up to date, the team was in charge of crawl prioritization, refresh policy, and corpus maintenance. Duties included: * Quarterly goal setting & prioritization within and across teams * Implementation of web crawl content collection metrics & visualizations * API service development & maintenance * Crawler development & maintenance * Cross-functional coordination with wider Search team

Co-Founder & CTO

EchoRank

Jan 2014 - Jul 2016 (2 years 7 months)

Hands-on implementation and ownership of the Analytics and Search data pipeline for EchoRank, a startup providing viral content analytics to social media marketers to help them optimize their social media campaigns and give them insights into their competitive landscapes. Responsibilities include: * Streaming social API feed consumption and ETL into Hadoop/Hive-based data warehouse (AWS Kinesis, Elastic Map/Reduce) * Hourly and daily aggregations supporting diverse data products delivered to platform via HBase REST API (EMR/Java UDFs) * Web crawler integration to track and extract content of links shared on social media for search & display (Nutch) * Development of viral search engine for links and conversations (AWS CloudSearch)

Director, Analytics

DeNA

Apr 2013 - Aug 2014 (1 year 5 months)

Led DeNA West’s analytics infrastructure and applications development team. Hadoop infrastructure development and operations. Game KPI aggregation using custom Java Map/Reduce, Hive, and HBase. Front-end Analytics application development of data visualization and dashboard tools. Support for custom analytics processing for groups across DeNA.

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Sr. Software Engineer / Program Manager, Analytics

ngmoco DeNA

Jun 2011 - Mar 2013 (1 year 10 months)

Led project to stand up a sizable Hadoop grid for ad hoc game data analysis and open it to users across the company. Designed and implemented standardized testing framework for ETL and hourly/daily aggregation jobs. Shared hands-on operational responsibilities for Hadoop infrastructure. Cross-functional roadmap planning and project execution. Some Pig UDF development and ad hoc game data analysis.

Sr. Software Development Engineer

Microsoft

Jul 2010 - Jun 2011 (1 year)

Led small engineering team that measurably improved search result caption quality via machine-learned document sub-section and meta-description scoring. Areas of responsibility included annotation infrastructure, data analysis, feature engineering, modeling, model evaluation.

Senior Program Manager

Microsoft

Aug 2008 - Jul 2010 (2 years)

Led cross-group project to improve captions with smarter snippet text selection. Helped design annotation task and define requirements for generating human-labeled data to support feature exploration for machine-learned document sub-section scoring. Wrote annotation toolset. Annotated thousands of document sub-sections. Developed experimental text-based features for machine learning. Also did some more typical PM work for the Captions and Natural Language Engineering teams in FY09 and FY10, working with stakeholders, coordinating work across teams, owning specs, etc.

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Project Manager

Powerset

Sep 2007 - Aug 2008 (1 year)

Owned releases of the Natural Language Technology indexing and runtime software stacks, managing dependencies across the NL, Pipeline, Search, Ranking, and Product teams. Helped improve stack build process for more rapid and predictable iteration. Evaluated new NL runtime stacks, putting builds through standard relevance testing process in conjunction with the Metrics and Pipeline teams. Helped to inform and make go/no-go decisions with respect to production releases.

Sr. Software Engineer, Search

Technorati Inc

May 2006 - Sep 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Designed and built competitive analysis framework for Blog Search comprehensiveness and quality to surface systemic crawler and search engine defects and to enable relevance algorithm modeling. Managed project to rebuild Technorati’s billion+ document Lucene-based search index with new indexing software stack. Wrote distributed indexing and merging automation tools. Contributed to common search engine control framework to reduce operational complexity. Participated in on-call rotation and a very memorable production deployment from a sidewalk in SOMA.

Sr. Engineering Manager

Yahoo

Jan 2004 - Jan 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Built and led team that produced internal and competitive Web Search metrics across all markets for YST engineering and product teams as well as executive management. Led unification of a few disparate automated Search metrics into a generic and distributed automated metrics framework. System included automatic SPC alerting and chart annotation tools to track significant changes. Led development of custom feedback and defect tracking tool used internally by lots of teams for many different Search products.

Software Engineer / Technical Lead

LookSmart LTD

Jan 2002 - Jan 2004 (2 years 1 month)

Managed small development team that integrated and automated the applications comprising the WiseNut crawling and indexing systems. Led projects to improve the stability, reliability, and performance of the indexing platform, cutting indexing cycle time in half. Did weird things with Cygwin. Built a really fast dead link checker.

Engineering Manager, Spider Operations

ExciteHome

Jul 2000 - Jan 2002 (1 year 7 months)

Led project to increase Spider document database capacity almost 3x with minimal capital expenditure, increasing size of Excite's International Web Search indices by 300% in under a year. Managed 7-person operations and system administration team that produced Excite's Web Search indices and maintained the commodity server farm used to build them.

Engineering Manager, Search Metrics

ExciteHome

Jan 2000 - Jul 2000 (7 months)

Enabled tracking of search engine's performance in relation to competitors and made impact of Search R&D efforts measurable. Managed QA process for Excite's search engine via regular blind evaluations of search result quality. Extended the process to measure Excite's International Search services relative to their competitors.

Lead Engineer, Search Metrics

ExciteHome

Jan 1999 - Jan 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Prototyped and built comprehensive QA toolset for measuring search engine result quality via blind evaluations. Developed measurable improvements to web crawling and search ranking algorithms based on analysis of these measurements.

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Software Engineer, Spider Group

Excite

Jan 1998 - Jan 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Collaborated on design and implementation of distributed crawling and indexing system to increase throughput and capacity by moving it to commodity hardware. Built web-based support tools to enable debugging and intervention to fix problems. Wrote tools for hunting down search engine spam.

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Production Engineer, Spider Group

Excite

Jan 1997 - Jan 1998 (1 year 1 month)

Production engineering. Care and feeding of WebCrawler index builds. Initiated company's first foray into search result quality studies.

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Customer Support Specialist

WebCrawler

Jan 1996 - Jan 1997 (1 year 1 month)

First dedicated tech support guy for this earliest of search engines. Maintained Help pages. Fought search engine spam. Helped troubleshoot lots of things that might seem crazy today. Learned a ton from an amazing team.

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