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Abhishek Gattani is the creator of Polaris ' the search engine for the second largest eCommerce retailer in the world. At WalmartLabs, he heads a diverse group of product and engineering teams which build the next gen platforms for product search, store search, product discovery, and merchant insights to help manage and grow the eCommerce business on the web, mobile, and internationally. Previously, he was Director of Engineering at Kosmix (acquired by Walmart) where he created the Kosmix.com search engine and the social genome platform. Prior to Kosmix, he was the lead architect at Stryker and founder of two startups. Abhishek brings a strong background in big data, search relevance, social media, and computer vision; and has filed over 17 patents in these areas. Abhishek holds a Masters in Computer Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he worked on visual pattern recognition.