Venkata Pagadala leads AI search and SEO product work at AT&T as Lead Technical Product Manager, building systems across more than 50 million pages. He designs industry taxonomies and knowledge graphs from real customer language, including a classification of more than 5.3 million search queries, and presented this work at brightonSEO San Diego 2026. He previously led SEO product work at CoStar Group's Apartments.com and was a senior SEO software developer at American Addiction Centers. He has co-authored peer-reviewed research in Discover Artificial Intelligence (Springer Nature) and the Journal of Digital & Social Media Marketing, and is pursuing a PhD in AI at KL University.