# Ankit Vij

> Search @ Databricks Mosaic AI

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ankitvij

Experienced Software Engineer passionate about Information Retrieval, Big Data Systems, and Machine Learning.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer/Tech Lead - Vector/AI Search @ Databricks
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
TL and founding engineer on the AI search team building the next generation information retrieval system

### Software Engineer - Search @ Zendesk
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California
Key contributor & SME to the indexing and serving pipeline to support search at scale for Zendesk

• Drove various performance initiatives to improve query latency and relevance. 
• Led the team that redesigned the whole filtering experience for search via a unified filtering syntax across all products
• Designed and developed a new super low latency orchestration service using Vert.x that acts as a single point of entry for the indexing and search pipeline to improve the performance and manageability of interactions with multiple search clusters
• Led the Elastic search upgrade from 2.x to 7.x  with 0 impact on customers. Tuned ranking differences, refactored and reimplemented search functionalities, schema changes, and ETL pipeline.
• Migrated the Search Service to Kubernetes to improve the scalability and management of the service containers.

### Software Engineer - Search @ Cvent
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Gurugram
•   Key Contributor to the Search Architecture redesign to improve relevance, indexing & serving latency, and support searching at billion document scale.
•   Designed and implemented an indexer that indexes millions of records from SQL to search index daily.
•  Developed a repair service that reconciles search index and SQL data and ensures data consistency between both data stores.

### Software Engineer @ Cvent
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Gurgaon, India
•   Developed multi-tenant microservices and UI controls for key features like registration, payment, & cross-event analytics.
•   Re-engineered and enhanced the performance of the bulk import REST API which resulted in 40 times faster processing
•   Redesigned the login page to improve scalability & user experience, support custom branding, & advertise marketing content.
•   Enhanced Cvent’s RabbitMQ library to link multiple consumers and producers to SOA services.
•   Awarded "Rookie of the year" at the annual company-wide, 2015.

### Software Engineer, Intern @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bangalore
Backend development for real-time brokerage & exchange rates calculating application clearing millions of records per second.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison

### Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in Computer Science & Engineering
Punjab Engineering College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ankit-vij

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Last updated: 2026-04-05