Patrick Rondon

Tech Lead/Manager (TLM), Developer AI Research

Research and build AI-based developer tools.

• Initiated development and research on Google's first deployed ReAct agent program repair tool
• Worked across teams and functions to deploy APR in production, with thousands of fixes submitted
• Built evaluation sets, infrastructure, and metrics for program repair

Tech Lead/Manager (TLM), Speech Contextual Modeling

Improve speech recognition accuracy across surfaces using non-speech context, e.g., contact names.

• Managed research group (4 directs) on contextual modeling for E2E ASR
• Led team improving contextually-relevant phrase recognition in E2E ASR models
• Shipped novel techniques for increasing recognition accuracy
• Presented and published speech recognition research, both internally and externally
• Led area-wide migrations to new, state-of-the-art speech recognition architectures
• Deployed work in flagship products (Pixel, Assistant, Gboard, Cloud, Meet)

Tech Lead, Search Serving

Create and extend APIs for accessing structured knowledge bases in search and other products.

• Proposed, designed, led implementation of structured knowledge API serving 30k+ QPS since 2015
• Led design and development of domain-specific language for structured search result pages
• Proposed and implemented structured knowledge panel editor with live preview

Software Engineer, Crawler

Optimize crawling and indexing with new approach to predicting which URLs lead to identical content.

• Expanded initial proof-of-concept system to feature parity with previous, decade-old system
• Sped up system 5x (60 hours to 12) and reduced memory footprint 3x (36GB to 12GB)