Chief Technology Officer, Handshake
Asif Makhani is the Chief Technology Officer for Handshake, a career platform for college students and recent graduates. Most recently, Asif was the head of Google Image Search and prior to that, he was the Sr. Director of Engineering for Learning Solutions at LinkedIn, leading the Lynda.com online learning technology organization and launching LinkedIn Learning. Asif was the founding member and engineer of A9.com (a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com), creator and GM of Amazon CloudSearch, and the Head of Search at LinkedIn. Asif has completed a BMATH from the University of Waterloo and a Masters in Computer Science with a focus on Information Retrieval and Entrepreneurship from Stanford University.
Participating in: Data: When to use it and when not to use it