Asif Makhani

Asif Makhani

Director of Product Management, Image Search

Asif Makhani is currently the Head of Product for Google Image Search. Prior to that, he was the Head of Online Learning Solutions at LinkedIn, leading the Lynda.com technology organization acquired by Linkedin for $1.5 billion. Asif has ~15 years of experience building search engines as a founding member and engineer of A9.com (a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com), creator and GM of Amazon CloudSearch, and the Head of Search at LinkedIn. Asif has completed a BMATH from the University of Waterloo and a Masters in Computer Science with a focus on Information Retrieval and Entrepreneurship from Stanford University.