Vibhore Sharma describes himself as a “tech guy” on a break. Before that he was the CTO of Info Edge India and was responsible for building one of the top job search platforms of the country: Naukri.com. He lost his father while he was still at school and couldn’t go to college; he started working early to support his family. Vibhore was a part of Info Edge and Naukri for close to two decades.
View on technology
“Technology extends or compounds human capability. It improves outcomes in one or more contexts. It leads to unexpected results, transformations, or even revolution.”
Key tech focus
- Building products
- Problem solving
- Scalability
- Resilience engineering
Role of AI and ML
- Data science to power information extraction, analysis and insight generation.
- Voice and video will re-factor interaction models.
- AI led matching and recommendations to be far more superior to current day and will forge new models of engagement.
Top challenges
Superior search based on understanding of user needs and behaviour alike.
Agility to experiment, build, and scale products.
Ability to adopt and harness emerging trends in technology, ahead in time.
Relevance and application of a technology is greater than how hot it is in the industry - if it is not solving a user or business problem in our context, it’s time has not come for adoption.
Constraints breed ingenuity.