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Randall Keller

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Vice President of Engineering - Growth and Curation at Pinterest
📍 Palo Alto, California, United States

Randall is an engineering leader with over 20 years of experience, currently serving as the VP of Engineering at Pinterest. Educated at Harvard and UC Berkeley, he notably led the team that grew Pinterests monthly active users by 35% to 600 million.

He holds a patent for an innovative system that generates descriptive text for images, a technology highly relevant to visual discovery platforms.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Vice President of Engineering - Growth and Curation
Location
Palo Alto, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Randall shows up

Curious
Assertive
Value Driven

They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince. They often ask many questions and rely heavily on information and documentation.

Priorities

Topics Randall cares about

User Growth Strategy
Led the engineering efforts at Pinterest that resulted in a 35% increase in Monthly Active Users over three years, growing the user base to 600 million.
Visual Search & AI
His work involves hybrid text and image search systems, and he holds a patent for generating descriptive text for images, indicating deep expertise in this area.
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Career

Work history

9-2022 - 10-2025
Vice President of Engineering - Growth and Curation
Pinterest
1-2021 - 2-2023
Vice President of Engineering - Discovery and Shopping
Pinterest
1-2020 - 12-2020
Interim Lead for Core Engineering
Pinterest
12-2018 - 1-2020
Director of Discovery Systems
Pinterest
2-2017 - 11-2018
Head of Search
Pinterest
In the press

Media appearances

Google image search lead Randy Keller jumps to Pinterest. Featured in MarTech
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Education
Master's degree
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors
Harvard University
Social presence
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DISC profile (public)

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