Sukhpreet Mehar Dhillon

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Engineering Manager, Stonegate Group - A/B testing · Java · Lucene

Stonegate Group
New Delhi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
IIM Bangalore
English, Hindi
AdvisingCo-founder
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Overview

I've spent 11 years on search and ranking - first at Accenture, now at Stonegate Group. Wrote the learning to rank service that now handles 86 million requests a day. Most at home with Java and Lucene.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on search and ranking
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on learning to rank decisions
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
Skills
LuceneA/B testingthreat modelingJavalearning to rank
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for students choosing a first job: search and ranking and threat modeling

Topics
search and ranking, threat modeling, Java
Format
Calls
Terms
Paid
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

11 years of search and ranking. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

New Delhi, Indialucenea/b testingthreat modeling
Open
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a technical co-founder for data labelling for logistics fleets

The idea
Data labelling for logistics fleets
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
9 years in search and ranking
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
New Delhi or remote

I bring 11 years of search and ranking (currently Stonegate Group). Ideally you've run operations in India and SEA. Full-time from day one.

New Delhi, Indialucenethreat modelingjava
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2023 - Present
    Stonegate Group · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Moved 63% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
    Larsen & Toubro · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Shipped 30 launches on the search team without a rollback.
  3. Software Engineer
    Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
    Airtel · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 17 a week to 4.
  4. Software Engineer
    Apr 2017 - Nov 2018
    LTIMindtree · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 5.
  5. Software Engineer
    Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
    Accenture · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Wrote the Java service that now handles 49 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. IIM Bangalore
    MBA, Business Administration
    2017 - 2019
  2. IIT Delhi
    B.Tech, Computer Engineering
    2011 - 2015

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