Jahnavi Payal Bisht

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Senior Engineering Manager, Zomato - Lucene · learning to rank · Scala

Zomato
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
BITS Pilani
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Overview

Currently at Zomato, where I lead search and ranking with a team of 41. Cut p99 latency on the search services from 800ms to 59ms. Coffee nerd.

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Skills
A/B testinglearning to rankScalaPythonElasticsearchLucene

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jan 2023 - Present
    Zomato · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 695ms to 70ms.
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    May 2020 - Jan 2023
    McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Grew the search team from 5 to 28 engineers.
    • Wrote the Lucene service that now handles 42 million requests a day.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Feb 2019 - May 2020
    Amazon · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 31 a week to 3.
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 30% in two quarters.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Aug 2016 - Jan 2019
    Ola · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 4.
  5. Software Engineer
    Apr 2013 - Jul 2016
    Mphasis · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 26 minutes to under 3.
    • Shipped 25 launches on the search team without a rollback.

Projects

Write-up: search and ranking in practice
2025

A long-form guide to search and ranking for people starting out.

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Education

  1. BITS Pilani
    B.E., Mathematics
    2006 - 2010

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