Swapnil Hajela

Swapnil Hajela is an accomplished engineering leader with extensive experience in search technologies, currently serving as the Head of Maps Search at Apple since March 2019. Previously, Swapnil held significant roles at Yahoo!, where responsibilities included leading engineering teams for search and conversational assistants, and at Microsoft, focusing on social search development for Bing. Early career experience includes positions at Yahoo where Swapnil contributed to next-gen search systems, and Inxight Software, specializing in natural language processing and entity extraction. Swapnil's educational background includes a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a certificate program from the University of California, Berkeley.