Owais Junaid Rashid

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Senior Engineering Manager at Canopy Mobility · Search and ranking · Elasticsearch, Java

Canopy Mobility
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
XLRI Jamshedpur
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Overview

10 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Canopy Mobility, where I lead the search team. Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion. Most at home with learning to rank and Elasticsearch. I read too many books about cities.

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Skills
ElasticsearchPythonJavalearning to rank
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Building out search at Canopy Mobility: SREs wanted in Bengaluru

Role
SRE
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
₹36-90 LPA
Team
Search, 5 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with Python Production experience with learning to rank Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp ₹20-51 LPA. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Bengaluru, India · remote OKpythonjavalearning to rank
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2023 - Present
    Canopy Mobility · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 24 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the search team from 3 to 14 engineers.
  2. Software Engineer
    Jan 2020 - Feb 2023
    BrowserStack · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 30% in two quarters.
  3. Software Engineer
    Jul 2018 - Sep 2019
    Zoho · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 477ms to 124ms.
  4. Software Engineer
    Nov 2016 - Jul 2018
    Adobe · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped 9 launches on the search team without a rollback.

Projects

Search and ranking benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Elasticsearch and Python on real workloads.

Conference talk: lessons from search
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling search and ranking.

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Education

  1. XLRI Jamshedpur
    MBA, Business Administration
    2019 - 2021
  2. Jadavpur University
    B.E., Mathematics
    2012 - 2016

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