Engineered production systems in a for ad tech platform optimizing advertiser outcomes (installs, actions) through CTV campaigns. Spanning real-time bidding infrastructure, ML-facing control systems and large-scale data pipelines.
- Drove campaign performance improvements by conducting experiments on impression frequency, lifetime impression count, audience segmentation and changing bid ranker achieving 15% overall performance gain.
- Developed real-time bid manipulation system to dynamically adjust bids based on given performance signals, which can shift upto 90-95% of spend to top inventory segments.
- Designed margin-aware pacing system to adjust pacing against target KPIs set by customer based on surplus/deficit it has accumulated so far.
- Mentored an intern on a bid frequency control system, proposing and guiding the design of a soft capper mechanism that applies penalty based bid reduction as a more nuanced alternative to hard blocking.
- Reduced infrastructure costs by 45% (~$350k annually) through value-based traffic throttling, filtering low-value bid requests without compromising performance. Resolved critical issue in Bigtable by redesigning key structures, decreasing read timeouts from ~12% to 2.5%, enhancing ML feature reliability.
- Built comprehensive reporting infrastructure that included data pipelines, storage, APIs and third-party integrations for large-scale data exports. Implemented end-to-end solutions for campaign reach computation and external reporting,.