Vik Singh

Vik Singh is an EIR at Sutter Hill Ventures. Previously, Vik helped create and architect Yahoo! BOSS, an open search platform that now runs over 1 billion queries a month. He developed supporting examples like TweetNews (which Wired called “the best mashup we’ve ever seen”) and the new Delicious homepage. Vik also worked at Google and Microsoft, both in research and product, helping ship Custom Search and XPSP2 Wireless. At MSR he worked with Jim Gray, co-authoring a paper about the SkyServer. Vik has filed 13 patents in the areas of search, systems infrastructure, and content optimization. MIT’s Technology Review listed him as one of the Top 35 under 35 Innovators of 2009 for his contributions to open search. He and his work have also been mentioned in news sources like CNET, Slashdot, TechCrunch, Washington Post, and the WSJ. Vik graduated from UC Berkeley in computer science in 2007. In high school, Vik competed in policy debate; he won the California state championship and was selected as a Kentucky Fellow, which ranked him among the top 12 debaters in the country.