Anand Mariappan is currently the VP of engineering at Impira. Previously, he was Senior Director of Engineering at Reddit, the 5th most visited site in the US, leading the charters for Search, Machine Learning, Data Science, Platform, and Operations to deliver personalized and relevant Reddit experiences across all platforms. Prior to that he led the redesign of the Reddit desktop experience and launched a native video platform that since drives over 1 billion monthly video views. Prior to Reddit, Anand spent eight years at Microsoft in various engineering leadership roles; the most notable being, an Engineering Manager for the PowerBI app experiences and cloud services team, in which he helped to drive the product as it scaled from 0 to 5 Million subscribers.