Ritendra is a Senior Director of Engineering at Databricks building out the Applied AI team. He's previously built and scaled large teams at Facebook/Meta and Google, and also worked at legendary research labs IBM TJ Watson Research Center and Xerox PARC.

He has helped build and scale many successful AI products and features in search, recommendations, and Generative AI, such as Google Shopping, Facebook Reels, and the Databricks Assistant.

Besides engineering and machine learning, he loves Probability and Statistics, Filmmaking, Stage- and Screen-writing, Theater Production, Music, Vacuum Cleaners, and Woodworking. Having an active life outside work, he's an advocate for work-life harmony.

When time permits, Ritendra actively does career coaching and mentoring over at MentorCruise. When the mentoring is effective, it's a tremendous source of joy.