Muskan Tandon

Overview

I've spent 19 years on search and ranking - first at Tech Mahindra, now at Cinder Learning. Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 43 minutes to under 6. Before that: Kotak Mahindra Bank and Google. Most at home with learning to rank and Lucene.

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Nov 2022 - Present
   Cinder Learning · 3 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Grew the search team from 5 to 38 engineers.
   • Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely.
2. Engineering Manager

   Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
   Kotak Mahindra Bank · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Led the migration of 16 services to Lucene.
3. Software Engineer

   May 2018 - Jun 2020
   Google · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Wrote the Elasticsearch service that now handles 16 million requests a day.
4. Software Engineer

   Feb 2015 - May 2018
   ICICI Bank · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 26 a week to 2.
5. Senior Software Engineer

   Aug 2012 - Feb 2015
   Tech Mahindra · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Moved 69% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

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Education

1. Christ University

   BBA, Mathematics
   2002 - 2006