Souvik Soumya Ganguly

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VP of Engineering at Orbit Systems | ex-Philips

Orbit Systems
Kolkata, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
Indian Statistical Institute
English, Hindi, Bengali
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Orbit Systems, focused on search and ranking. Grew the search team from 5 to 18 engineers. Wrote the A/B testing service that now handles 53 million requests a day. Before that: Philips and Intel. Most at home with Iceberg and learning to rank.

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Skills
A/B testinglearning to rankPythonScalaLuceneIceberg
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Building out search at Orbit Systems: mobile engineers wanted in Kolkata

Role
Mobile engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
₹30-70 LPA
Team
Search, 10 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with A/B testing Production experience with learning to rank Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp ₹40-85 LPA. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Kolkata, India · remote OKlearning to ranka/b testingscala
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Feb 2023 - Present
    Orbit Systems · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Wrote the Lucene service that now handles 32 million requests a day.
    • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Mar 2020 - Feb 2023
    Philips · 2 yr 11 mo · Contract · Kolkata, India
    • Moved 83% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Led the migration of 46 services to Lucene.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Jun 2018 - Mar 2020
    Intel · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Backed 53 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Sep 2015 - Jun 2018
    Zerodha · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 36 a week to 3.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Jan 2013 - Sep 2015
    TCS · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 6.

Projects

Search and ranking benchmark
2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing A/B testing and Iceberg on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Indian Statistical Institute
    M.Stat, Electronics and Communication
    2006 - 2008
  2. Manipal Institute of Technology
    B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
    2002 - 2006

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