Subodh Shakya has a long track record of hands on technical leadership delivering massively scalable, high visibility products. His experience includes large scale, complex and distributed systems, search engine optimization, content filtering, data mining & extraction, ranking algorithms, metadata & user intent analysis, artificial-intelligence, DirectX and multimedia codec programming.

In 2005 Subodh architected the Yahoo Audio & Video Search backend and holds multiple patents on Imaging, Audio, Video and Search Engine related technologies as part of his role in developing the then world’s largest audio video processing grid involving a fully automated fail-fast grid cluster of more than 2000 nodes processing Terabytes of transcoding data and millions of multimedia objects every day.

Subodh’s diverse experience includes engineering leadership of several high profile endeavors, including strategic planning, direction and execution of AdInterax, Yahoo’s rich media advertising Platform that generates about $65 million annually and the Video & Display Ad Monetization teams at Yahoo! that generate billion plus in revenues.

Subodh Shakya published his first book in 2000 on Advanced Data Mining Techniques (ISBN: B00005UJXF, Wrox Publications) and has been writing online ever since.

Subodh did his Bachelor's from NITK Surathkal in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.