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Deven Panchal

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Director of Engineering at Uniphore
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Deven is the Director of Engineering at Uniphore, specializing in AI-driven platforms. With a background from Yahoo and Intel, he has led complex projects like re-architecting local search using LLMs and RAG. He holds an MS from The University of Texas at Dallas and a certification in Generative AI on AWS.

Outside of work, Deven is a dedicated fitness enthusiast, suggesting a focus on discipline and personal health. He is also a two-time recipient of the prestigious JRD Tata Scholarship, highlighting his academic excellence and commitment during his early career.

He once led the complete redesign of Yahoos local search platform by moving it to an advanced embedding-based retrieval system.

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Experience
13 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Agentic AI Solutions
He is actively expanding his team at Uniphore to build and deploy enterprise-scale agentic AI, highlighting this as a current professional priority.
Generative AI Applications
His experience includes using RAG and LLMs to redefine search, complemented by a certification in "Developing Generative AI Applications on AWS".
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Director of Engineering
Uniphore
1-2024 - 9-2025
Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Local Search
Yahoo
6-2017 - 1-2024
Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Movement Platforms
Yahoo
5-2014 - 6-2017
Principal Software Engineer, Local Search
Yahoo
8-2008 - 7-2010
Software Engineer, Advance Visual Computing
Intel
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Education
2006 - 2008
MS
The University of Texas at Dallas
2003 - 2006
BE
University of Mumbai
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