Career Profile
Experienced leader(Meta, Google, Airbnb, and LinkedIn) strong in product and engineering strategy.
Experience managing senior teams, supporting people managers and leading across ML, product, backend, and infrastructure teams.
Experience building teams from scratch, scaling them and hiring and growing senior engineers and people managers.
Experiences
- Building a platform to implement Privacy quickly, smoothly, and without mistakes. Kickstarted a new 0->1 effort to create a rich, high-quality privacy graph connecting billions of code and data assets with the products they serve. Over the last two years, it has become a foundational infrastructure across Meta to describe the scope of the privacy policy and generate automated reports for GDPR and FTC compliance.
I have built the org from the ground up, hiring and growing senior engineers and supporting three different teams through managers.
Before this, I led the effort to prevent misinformation from going viral on the Facebook platform, building ML detection systems, infrastructure for measurement and evaluation, products for fact-checking organizations, and user-facing features in the Facebook app to inform users better about misinformation. Supported multiple teams distributed across the West Coast.
Started on pricing team and grew the experience effort from 3 to 15 engineers. Led teams focussing on developing pricing tools such as dynamic pricing and pricing insights for hosts and guests.
Delivered incredible business impact through pricing and directly drove 5% incremental growth for Airbnb in 2017.
Piloted insights as a product to hosts and then later expanded effort to build personalized ranking and build platform to support it into many different touch points.
Led promotions efforts to pilot discount creation on listings. Started machine learning efforts to develop dynamic discount promotions.
Led a team of 10+ engineers working on content discovery through search to discover great content.** Built a scalable and intelligent notifications experience for in-app and push notifications for Linkedin. Also led growth efforts for cross promotions of Linkedin applications.
Led the feed team at Linkedin building multiple new features such as sponsored updates, mentions, company news in feed, profile updates and various tracking initiatives in the feed.** Led mobile infrastructure at Linkedin building mobile backends, owning the Node.js architecture and helped train new engineers on the team.
Worked on keyword suggestion tool within search ads responsible for suggesting keywords for advertisers to build on.
Led the quality and testing efforts for our team by designing revenue measurements and metrics pipeline, framework for human evals, regression tests and end-to-end pipelines for keyword based ad targeting project.
Projects
Miscellaneous list of publications, patents and projects