Anand Madhavan

Anand Madhavan

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Senior Vice President of Engineering
Mountain View, California, United States

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  • Midi Health
    Senior Vice President of Engineering
    Midi Health
    Mar 2026 - Current (7 months)
    Building things for better health
  • Career Break
    Caregiving
    Career Break
    Aug 2025 - Mar 2026 (8 months)
  • Everlaw
    Vice President Of Engineering
    Everlaw
    May 2020 - Jul 2025 (5 years 3 months)
    Head of Engineering at Everlaw reporting to the CEO. Responsible for all of Everaw's engineering efforts. Team comprised of Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Security Engineering, Data Science and Engineering Operations functions.

    Team shipped large and important product innovations like Project Query (LLM RAG based search), Clustering, GenAI/LLM integrations and so many more, with several patents along the way. Improved scalability, cost, reliability and performance of the product.

    Hired and grew a 130+ person engineering org. Put in place recruiting practices, introduced career paths. Structured teams for flexibility and ownership. Put in place career development paths for ICs and managers on the team. Int
  • Narvar
    Vice President Of Engineering
    Narvar
    May 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 9 months)
    Head of engineering at Narvar responsible for all of Narvar’s engineering efforts. Team comprised of frontend, backend, QA, data engineers, interns and data scientists.

    Scaled the engineering organization from 45 to 100+. Hired and groomed senior engineers, data scientists, managers, directors and interns. Defined hiring practices, built out Narvar’s external engineering brand, introduced career paths. Built a strong internship program. Grew a team in Bangalore from 3 to 30+. Structured teams and put in place career development paths for engineers and data scientists.

    Synthesized strong technical projects that moved key business metrics. Instituted cycle planning processes to reduce engineering thrash. Built the org ar
  • Snap Inc
    Sr. Engineering Manager, Friends Feed Ranking
    Snap Inc
    Oct 2017 - Mar 2018 (6 months)
  • Snap Inc
    Senior Engineering Manager
    Snap Inc
    Jan 2016 - Mar 2018 (2 years 3 months)
    Head of the Discover product that caters to top-tier show producers and world class publishing houses and was responsible for ~50% of Snap’s revenues. This includes iOS and Android, backend infrastructure, the content management system, ranking, optimization, experimentation and analytics.
  • Snap Inc
    Sr. Engineering Manager, Discover
    Snap Inc
    Jan 2016 - Sep 2017 (1 year 9 months)
    Head of the Discover product, empowering publishers and show producers with cutting-edge creative and analytics tools to engage their audiences on Snapchat. We built state of the art Content publishing systems used across Ads and Publishers. We built sophisticated content management tools and analytics to help Content creators with tools, feedback and insights. We built powerful optimization tools and ranking to maximize engagement and help publishers improve their content.

    Impact: During my tenure the Discover audience grew from ~10M DAU to ~30M DAU and engagement metrics improved by 30% due to various efforts on the team.
  • Twitter
    Director of Engineering
    Twitter
    Mar 2015 - Dec 2015 (10 months)
    Head of Twitter's engineering efforts to increase visitor engagement (ie. engagement of users that are not logged-in). This included the Twitter home, profile, tweet and download pages. Impact: During my tenure, we shipped Twitter's first ever content-based, infinitely scrollable home page on mobile and desktop. We improved engagement rates and decreased bounce rates by 30% due to efforts on the team.
  • Twitter
    Director Software Engineering, Twitter
    Twitter
    Mar 2015 - Dec 2015 (10 months)
    Head of Twitter's engineering efforts to increase visitor engagement (ie. engagement of users that are not logged-in). This included the Twitter home, profile, tweet and download pages.

    Impact: During my tenure, we shipped Twitter's first ever content-based, infinitely scrollable home page on mobile and desktop. We improved engagement rates and decreased bounce rates by 30% due to efforts on the team.
  • Twitter
    Director Software Engineering, Revenue Platform
    Twitter
    Feb 2013 - Mar 2015 (2 years 2 months)
    Head of Ads Platform. Responsible for building, leading and growing a 50+ people org with these world-class teams critical to the business: Ads Serving, Twitter's prediction/machine learning infrastructure, Ads API, Ads Dataservice infrastructure, Ads Billing and Payments infrastructure. Hired, groomed and managed a team of engineering managers in addition to managing engineers and interns directly.

    Impact: During my tenure in Ads, Twitter grew from 1000's of $ to billions of $ in revenue and grew from a handful of advertisers to 100s of thousands. We built systems to serve core ad formats, support critical targeting options and scaled the services to cater to Twitter's growing user demand, exchange demands, advertiser demands
  • Twitter
    Director of Engineering
    Twitter
    Feb 2013 - Mar 2015 (2 years 2 months)
    Head of Twitter’s Ads Platform. Responsible for building, leading and growing a 50+ people org with these world-class teams critical to the business: Ads Serving, Twitter's prediction/machine learning infrastructure, Ads API, Ads Dataservice infrastructure, Ads Billing and Payments infrastructure. Hired, groomed and managed a team of engineering managers in addition to managing engineers and interns directly at various stages. Grew a team in Dublin, Ireland. Impact: During my tenure in Ads, Twitter grew from ~0$ of a few billions of $ in revenue and grew from a handful of advertisers to 100s of thousands. We built systems to serve core ad formats, support critical targeting options and scaled the services to cater to Twitter's growing user
  • Twitter
    Staff Software Engineer
    Twitter
    Jun 2010 - Feb 2013 (2 years 9 months)
    Ads serving infrastructure from the ground up for Twitter Ads. One of the founding engineers of Twitter's monetization efforts. Worked on a variety of projects supporting the conception, the ramp-up and scaling of Twitter's promoted products and saw it through various stages of growth from conception to IPO and beyond.
  • PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS
    Software Engineer Intern
    PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS
    Jan 2009
    Worked on GPU accelerated subdivision surface rendering, speeding realtime rendering by 60x. The work has been used by artists in the production of the movie Brave and others since.
  • Microsoft
    Research Intern
    Microsoft
    Jan 2008
    Worked at Powerset during its acquisition by Microsoft. Accelerating semantic search queries using GPUs.
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    Senior Software Engineer
    Ansoft now part of Synopsys
    Jan 2002 - Feb 2008 (6 years 2 months)
  • ANSYS Inc
    Sr. Software Engineer
    ANSYS Inc
    Jan 2002 - Feb 2008 (6 years 2 months)
    Large scale C++ software design contributions building HFSS, Ansoft's flagship product.
  • Envestnet Yodlee
    Sr. Software Developer
    Envestnet Yodlee
    May 2000 - Jan 2002 (1 year 9 months)
    Built the architecture for 'transparent' hardware-based encryption for storing user credentials for various websites. Worked on various functionalities for the site.
  • Yodlee
    Senior Software Engineer
    Yodlee
    May 2000 - Dec 2001 (1 year 8 months)
    Contributed several functionality and security features to the Yodlee aggregation product.
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    Senior Software Engineer
    Ansoft now part of Synopsys
    Sep 1999 - May 2000 (9 months)
    Contributed several features and functionality to the core Ansoft HFSS flagship product. Experienced with large scale C++ system design.
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    Bachelor of Technology, Aerospace
    Indian Institute of Technology Chennai
  • Mississippi State University
    Master of Science, Computer Engineering
    Mississippi State University
    4.0 GPA
  • Stanford University
    Master of Science, Computer Science
    Stanford University
    3.83 GPA
  • Stanford University
    MS, Computer Science (AI)
    Stanford University
    Jan 2008 - Jan 2010 (2 years 1 month)
    Rajat Raina, Anand Madhavan, Andrew Ng, "Large-scale Deep Unsupervised Learning using Graphics Processors", 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009)
  • Mississippi State University
    MS, Computational Engineering
    Mississippi State University
    Jan 1997 - Jan 1999 (2 years 1 month)
    Computational Field Simulation, MPI
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras
    B Tech
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras
    Aug 1993 - Aug 1997 (4 years 1 month)
    Santakumar S., Madhavan A., Kulkarni N. V., "Trajectory Simulation of a thrust controlled, Solid Fuel Ramjet propelled, cannon launched projectile", Journal of the Aerospace Society of India, Vol 50, Number 2, May 1998, pp 93-99.
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  • Sep
    Large-scale Deep Unsupervised Learning using Graphics Processors
    Sep
    Large-scale Deep Unsupervised Learning using Graphics Processors
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