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Vivin Kurian

Sunnyvale,CA

Summary

Accomplished Trust and Safety professional with over 7 years of experience in fraud prevention, abuse mitigation, and data-driven risk analysis at Google. Skilled in developing scalable strategies and automated solutions to combat search quality issues, customer care fraud, and spam vulnerabilities. Skilled at collaborating cross-functionally with engineering, product, legal, and policy teams to implement technically feasible solutions that improve user experiences and protect revenue. Strong analytical capabilities with expertise in data science, machine learning and LLMs to combat abuse.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Analyst- Trust and Safety

Google
04.2022 - Current
    • Fraud and abuse fighting on Google Search through Data science and analysis
    • Developed scalable strategies to prevent abuse, quality risks and improve user experiences and adoption
    • Collaborating with a diverse set of stakeholders, including Engineering, Product, Legal and Policy, to implement automated solutions, mitigate risk and manage escalations
    • Analyzing Google products for abuse vulnerabilities, and designing technically feasible solutions for implementation.

Senior Strategist, Trust and Safety

Google
11.2020 - 03.2022
    • Worked on xPA strategy to reduce customer care fraud on Google Search leading to classifier launch which actions on 2B spam impressions per day
    • Worked on ideating and building scam Classifier on Google Search which prevents $140M of revenue lost to scammers.

Strategist, Trust and Safety

Google
05.2018 - 10.2020
    • Built Large scale automated pipeline to tackle problems of sponsored post on Google Search to prevent SEO manipulation of Google Search results leading to a $13M revenue impact.

Associate, Trust and Safety

Google
08.2016 - 04.2018
    • Improve quality of Google's search results by prevention and removal of search quality issues
    • Worked on different types of Linking spam
    • Effectively decreased contribution of hacked link spam by ~50% through automated workflows and takedowns
    • Large scale takedown of posts meant for boosting PR which led to $~50M worth of monetary loss to spammers and discussions in blackhat SEO community.

Analyst

LatentView Analytics
05.2015 - 07.2016
  • Worked for the world's largest payment processing industry on their SMB and Partner portfolio
  • Rich domain knowledge in financial analytics with expertise in working in Python, SQL, Excel and R
  • Built and maintained complex dashboard using Tableau and Excel
  • Experience in predictive modelling and various statistical analysis.

Intern

Universitas Prasetiya Mulya
05.2014 - 07.2014
  • Worked as an intern as a part of AISEC exchange program on optimization of supply chain, gamification and social work.

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering -

Anna University
India
04.2015

Accomplishments

    Google Awards

  • 15 Spot Bonus awarded for recognizing extraordinary achievements
  • 24 Peer bonus awarded for recognizing Googlers for going above and beyond the call of duty


    • Education Awards

  • District topper in Grade 10 board exams
  • National finalist in Mathematics Olympiad
  • Secured 99 percentile in All India Talent Exam conducted by NIIT


Timeline

Engineering Analyst- Trust and Safety

Google
04.2022 - Current

Senior Strategist, Trust and Safety

Google
11.2020 - 03.2022

Strategist, Trust and Safety

Google
05.2018 - 10.2020

Associate, Trust and Safety

Google
08.2016 - 04.2018

Analyst

LatentView Analytics
05.2015 - 07.2016

Intern

Universitas Prasetiya Mulya
05.2014 - 07.2014

Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering -

Anna University

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