Srikar Yekollu

Srikar Yekullu has a diverse and extensive work experience. Srikar is currently serving as the Head of Wingman Engineering at Clari since June 2022. Prior to this, they co-founded and served as the CTO of Wingman (previously Strings.ai) from August 2017 to June 2022.

Before joining Clari, Srikar worked at Uber as a Software Engineer from August 2015 to July 2017. In this role, they focused on machine learning infrastructure, specifically building distributed algorithms for training machine learning models on large datasets. Srikar also collaborated with internal teams to help model their problems using this infrastructure and improve key metrics for Uber.

Prior to Uber, Srikar worked at Google as a Software Engineer from July 2011 to July 2015. During their tenure, they worked on various projects including ads quality prediction, computer vision for Google Self Driving Car, and machine learning for predictions on the Social Graph. Their contributions included implementing large-scale machine learning models, setting up deep learning models for image recognition, and improving suggestions on the Social Graph.

Before Google, Srikar worked at Amazon.com as a Software Engineer from March 2009 to July 2011. Srikar focused on machine learning for duplicate detection in catalog quality, which played a crucial role in delivering a high-quality shopping experience on Amazon.com.

Srikar's early work experience includes a role as a Technical Associate at Trilogy from July 2005 to June 2007.

Overall, Srikar Yekollu has a solid background in software engineering and has gained expertise in machine learning, infrastructure development, and improving key metrics for various companies including Clari, Wingman, Uber, Google, Amazon.com, and Trilogy.

Srikar Yekollu completed their Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka from 2001 to 2005. Srikar then pursued a Master of Science degree in Machine Learning from The Ohio State University, which they completed from 2007 to 2009. In 2019, they attended Y Combinator for the S19 program, but the field of study for this experience is not specified.