Adnan Qureshi

Driving massive-scale infrastructure rollouts and bleeding-edge AI optimization at Google. I bridge the gap between Research Scientists, Hardware Engineering, and SREs to operationalize technology that powers millions of machines. 🚀 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞: 𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈) Selected to lead a critical efficiency program re-architecting Open Source Models (Qwen3, Deepseek) for TPU infrastructure. • 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝑨𝑰 𝑬𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚: Utilizing one-shot Reinforcement Learning (RL) to drive GPU-parity quality on TPUs, unlocking significant cost reductions at scale. • 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: Spearheading FP4 enablement on Trillium 7 TPUs; partnering with XLA and Kernel teams to deliver quantized models with equivalent/better quality than GPU baselines. ☁️ 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞: 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 Leading end-to-end NPI software rollouts for the world's largest storage fleet (HDD/SSD). • 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒆: Orchestrating release cycles across thousands of machines in Google data centers, directly impacting fleet reliability and availability. • 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: Managing dependencies across 40+ cross-functional teams to ensure NPIs land within the production fleet without service interruption. • 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑬𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆: Redefined execution KPIs to identify systemic bottlenecks, successfully driving initiatives that improved release predictability and software quality. 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬: AI Infrastructure · Generative AI · Tensor Processing Units (TPU) · Large Scale Distributed Systems · Release Management

Led software delivery and partner ecosystems for Google's Augmented Reality products, scaling from prototype to global ubiquity. • 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 (𝟏.𝟔𝐁 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬): Successfully launched ARCore on 1.6 billion Android devices. Managed complex partnerships with Tier 1/Tier 2 OEMs and SoC vendors to ensure fragmentation did not hinder growth. • 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Designed and implemented an OEM Self-Certification program, reducing engineering overhead by 2 FTEs and significantly accelerating the partner onboarding velocity. • 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡: Owned end-to-end software release management for AR Glasses and key features like Geospatial AR (Streetscape Geometry, Rooftop Anchors) presented at Google I/O. • 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬: Android OS · Augmented Reality (AR) · Partner Management · Mobile Devices · Consumer Electronics

I spearheaded the overhaul of time tracking and vacation accrual tool for Amazon's global non-corporate population • 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞: Designed and launched a centralized vacation and time scheduling engine serving a 500,000-person non-corporate global workforce • 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲: Standardized fragmented legacy logic across dozens of countries into a single, robust AWS-backed architecture. • 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞: Ended a global "logistical nightmare" by securing hard-earned benefits for every non-corporate employee at Amazon.

When Alexa became a global phenomenon, the third-party developer ecosystem was trapped behind a manual, error-prone certification gauntlet that couldn't scale. I stepped in to re-engineer the entire developer journey, transforming a fragmented collection of friction points into a high-velocity, automated engine. • Legacy certification workflows were entirely manual, causing a massive backlog that stalled the Alexa Skills Store and frustrated thousands of 3P developers. • Spearheaded a mission-critical automation initiative to digitize the skill-testing suite while overhauling ranking algorithms to prioritize high-value user experiences. • Synthesized developer sentiment into actionable platform fixes, aligning Engineering, DevRel, and Product teams under a single, cohesive roadmap. • Catalyzed a 1,000% catalog explosion—surging from 1,000 to 10,000+ skills in just one year—and cemented Alexa’s dominance in the ambient computing market.

Amazon’s global hardware device expansion was teetering on a high-risk, manual launch process that threatened the debut of every Kindle, Fire TV, and Alexa device. I stepped in to architect a systematic launch engine, turning fragmented, error-prone "war rooms" into a repeatable science for flagship products across five international regions. - Codified disjointed manual tasks into a standardized, 14-team cross-functional playbook that aligned product, engineering, logistics, and demand planning. - Directed high-pressure launch-day "war rooms" for 30+ stakeholders, ensuring every sequential step hit its mark in lockstep across the US and global markets. - Successfully orchestrated over 20 high-stakes global launches, providing the operational maturity for Amazon to dominate the device market with unprecedented speed and launched Kindle Tablets for the first time in 170 countries - Transformed a fragile, manual gauntlet into a zero-fail global delivery engine, securing a promotion for defining the blueprint for Amazon’s hardware scaling.

Led a team of developers and testers to customize and develop a CRM Dynamics 2011 application for Partner Account Managers so that they had a 360 degree view of their Worldwide Microsoft Partners and could set their goals, commitments and targets. As a program manager, I was responsible for: • Working directly with business users to determine requirements for each release • Creating user stories and conducting sprint planning meetings to prioritize those user stories for sprints • Monitoring backlog and burn rate as well as carrying out daily standup meetings • Conducting UAT sessions with business users • Optimizing processes to streamline development and QA work • Triaging and prioritizing bugs and defects

I worked as a Product Manager and Business Analyst for Xavor and was primarily involved with the delivery of projects from pre-sales to implementation and throughout the SDLC. My work required me to provide the resource estimates as well as the time and effort estimates that would be required to deliver a certain project. I have been involved with clients from different industry verticals which include: GovX - La Jolla, CA Project Manager Led a team of developers and testers to develop an E-commerce application using an open source platform. As a project manager I was responsible for: • Working directly with the business users to determine the resource requirements for the project and also the time and effort required to assist in determining the budget • Developing the project plan, risk management plan and release plan BARC – La Jolla, CA Product Manager Led a team of onsite and offshore resources to develop a collaborative browsing application. Bio Nutritional Research Group - Newport Beach, CA Project Manager Led a team of developers and developed an E-commerce platform for Bio Nutritional Research Group (BNRG) I have also worked with the following organizations in the capacity of Project and Program Manager: Warner Brothers, Broadcom, MySpace, Goal Financial, Closing Corp.

Led a team of developers and testers to develop an E-commerce application. As a Project Manager I was responsible for: - Working directly with the business users to determine the resource requirements for the project and also the time and effort required to assist in determining the budget - Defining the as-is to to-be processes and flows as well as managing on-site and off shore teams - Sprint Planning to decide which features were to be included in what sprint and the rhythm of the sprints

Led a team of developers as a project manager and delivered a real estate knowledge base system. This system was designed keeping the rules & regulations of various locations in mind. - Organized requirements gathering sessions and prepared the requirements specification document - Acted as a liaison between the business users and the offshore development team for the development - Designed the feature set for the application by collaborating with the cross functional teams involved. - Planned the release management as well as the risk planning

Worked as a business analyst to assess the supply chain for WHV and map it to an industry supply chain model; SCOR (Supply Chain Operation Reference) and had to analyze the Data warehouse where and how the data for the various modules (Order Management, Order Fulfillment etc.) of the supply chain was stored. WHV was able to realize benefits worth $1.4M using the recommendations my team and I proposed.

Worked as a business analyst to coordinate between the various development teams and to gather requirements for the development and roll out of an application review tool. This tool was used to help review applications developed on the myspace developer platform. Day to day duties included collaborating with cross-functional team, writing specification documents, developing wireframes and conducting UAT sessions with the business users

As a project manager for multiple projects which included a major implementation in MS CRM for partners’ management and custom implementations in SharePoint & .Net. Led a team of 10+ onsite and offshore resources across multiple projects and the average quarterly turnover of these projects was $250,000

I worked at Echostar as a Software Engineer and my primary duties were to work on a rebate allocation system for the vendors of DishNetwork. All of the development was in Java and J2EE with Apache as the web application server.

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