Vidyaranya Devigere

Viddu Devigere is the Head of Algorithms for Overstock.com and a veteran leader with a deep expertise in technology architecture, algorithms, and machine learning. In his current role, Devigere directs multiple teams of machine learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and software engineers, who work on problems spanning a diverse set of domains such as search relevancy, product ranking, pricing and promotion optimizations, personalization, merchandizing attribution, logistics and customer support. Devigere’s teams, which are geographically dispersed across the U.S., and in Ireland, work with cutting edge machine learning and data transformation tools deployed both on premise and in the cloud. Before joining Overstock, Devigere held leadership positions at Shopify, Affirm, and Macy’s. Besides data and machine learning, his expertise spans enterprise cloud and PaaS strategy to e- commerce search. Devigere holds a master’s degree in management of information systems from Texas A&M and a bachelor’s degree in computer science.