# Puru Anand

> Software Engineer at Google

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

Hi there!

I am a Software Engineer at Google. Having a Master of Computer Science degree from University of California, Irvine and prior industry experience at Samsung R&D, I have a strong passion to solve problems and am constantly trying to make the world a better place using technology.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States
Part of the Ads Forecasting team in Google Ads. Provided performance forecasts for video ad campaigns to over 4 million advertisers. During this internship, I

- Created the entire backend of a new type of ad campaigns called Target Frequency in the Google Ads Reach Planner tool.
- Made changes to the team's validation dashboard to run daily validations for this new ad type.
- Built a quality tool using Colab to measure the success metric defined for Target Frequency ad campaigns.
- Modified the code of the underlying model used for forecasting to add support of these new ad campaigns.
- Ran A/B tests to compare quality; The accuracy of forecast predictions was increased by 86%.
- Out of 40+ interns, I was one of 10 selected to showcase my project to the overall YouTube Ads team lead.

### Software Engineer @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | New Delhi, Delhi, India
Main projects and areas of focus:
1. Responsible for the development and maintenance of the search engine in Samsung Smart TVs around the world. This includes sourcing the data from various content providers, collating them in a unified format, and indexing it in such a way that complex search query results are returned in less than one second. 
Related tech - C#, Node.js, Oracle SQL, Postgre SQL, Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, AWS services

2. Deep Media Search - First of a kind NLP solution in any Smart TV Search service - User can search for a program using its description.
Increased Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR) score from 0.02 to 0.68 on over 500 crowd-sourced search queries.
Related tech - C#, Node.js, Elasticsearch, Google BERT

3. Owner of SearchAll Business Console, an intra-team portal. Used to manipulate search results ranking, simulate search queries as on a TV, monitor batch processes, and more.
Created a tool for failed search analysis. Parsed over 14 million search query logs daily and displayed failed search sentences and reasons for failure on the portal.
Related tech - Node.js, Angular, Python

Other things I worked on:
- Developed CI/CD Jenkins pipelines and Ansible playbooks for effortless deployment to Windows servers via Git.
- Developed a pilot project as a part of an intra-company hackathon which improved UX while watching TV in the domain of subtitles. The project displayed an easier synonym of a difficult word along with the subtitle in real-time. Won second prize out of over 150 entries.

Moreover, I
- Traveled to Samsung HQ in South Korea in May 2019 for design and architecture discussions related to next year's R&D.
- Was a part of Samsung Great Workplace team - responsible for organizing monthly events and quarterly parties at external venues.
- Cleared Samsung SWC Professional test - an algorithmic competency exam, mandatory for every employee. At the time of clearing, less than 10% out of over 1500 people had cleared it.

### Web Developer @ MedHalt
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New Delhi, Delhi, India
Front-end and server-side developer; worked in HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery; designed, structured and coded the new website of the company; developed a platform for patients and hospitals to exchange messages; created an editor for content writers to develop new pages without having prior web development knowledge.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
UC Irvine

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Engineering
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

### High School
Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/puru-anand

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Last updated: 2026-03-29