Navneet is the Director of Engineering for the Core Hiring Experience team at Thumbtack, where he leads efforts to shape the end-to-end search and hiring experience for Thumbtack’s customers. His team is responsible for enabling over 4 million U.S. customers to find and hire professionals from a marketplace of more than 300,000 local businesses. They tackle challenges like building an AI-powered search experience using LLMs, optimizing search ranking through multi-objective optimization and surfacing more relevant recommendations for customers in their product journey. Since 2023, Navneet has also played a key role in shaping and driving the adoption of Thumbtack's generative AI strategy. Prior to his leadership role at Thumbtack, Navneet worked as a machine learning engineer, solving various consumer-facing and cloud-scale challenges at Thumbtack & IBM Watson. He’s an alumnus of the Language Technologies Institute (LTI), at the School of Computer Science,