Anand Murugappan

Anand Murugappan is an accomplished Senior Director of Engineering at Google, where responsibilities include founding teams and leading engineering efforts in Google Shopping Ads and organic shopping experiences since April 2010, contributing to the growth of Product Listing Ads into a multi-billion dollar business. Prior experience includes serving as a Senior Director of Engineering and Scientist at Yahoo, focusing on sustainable search monetization and search engine advertising through advanced data mining and machine learning techniques. Additional roles include an intern involved in recommendation platform development and a Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology, where research focused on distributed systems and mobile computing. Anand's earlier career included work as a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft, specializing in secure code development. Anand holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka.