Ashish Gupta

CEO

Cupertino, California, United States21 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led transformative data platform development at Google.
  • Achieved over 2X revenue growth in YouTube Ads.
  • Pioneered Ads Area Technical Leadership group.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AdTech and Data Infrastructure with extensive experience in scalable systems.

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AlgorithmsBig DataC++Computer ScienceData StructuresDebuggingDistributed SystemsMapReduceMultithreadingObject Oriented DesignScalabilitySoftware DesignSoftware Engineering

Experience

Google

4 roles

VP/GM, Merchant Shopping

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos

  • Ensuring businesses of all sizes succeed on Google, and building the foundational building blocks for agentic commerce journeys.

Engineering Fellow, Ads & Commerce Area Technical Lead

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • Founded the Ads Area Technical Leadership (ATL) group, leading a team of senior technical leaders to establish high-quality, sustainable architecture, and innovative technology across Google Ads. The group is responsible for seeding multiple cross-Ads technology efforts aimed at reimagining system architecture from first principles, and proactively ensuring the infusion of cutting-edge technologies, such as LLMs (Large Language Models) and Generative AI, into the Ads platform. Also, the group leads multiple initiatives driving sustainable growth for the Ads platform, with strategic investments in Developer AI, machine efficiency, and reliability.

Vice President Engineering, YouTube Ads

Feb 2019May 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Managed the YouTube Ads Engineering organization through a period of remarkable growth, achieving over a 2X increase in ads revenue, reaching approximately $30B in 2022. Drove the end-to-end engineering stack, overseeing key components such as advertiser-facing video ads products, ads retrieval & serving, ML modeling, ads quality, auction/marketplace, brand-safety and measurement. Simultaneously, provided leadership for the infrastructure and quality product organization.

Vice President and Engineering Fellow, Data Infrastructure & Analysis

Jun 2005Feb 2019 · 13 yrs 8 mos

  • Led a world-class organization to build the core data platform underpinning major Google businesses, including Ads, Shopping, and Payments (over $100+ billion business). This included highly extensible infrastructure for data ingestion, real-time stream processing, petabyte-scale geo-replicated storage engine, federated query execution engine and visual analysis. Also, drove a transformative effort to evolve the team from an AdWords-specific infrastructure group to a Google-wide data platform, by re-architecting major systems and building a dedicated product team from scratch (including product managers, UX researchers, and tech-writers).

Department of computer science, the university of texas at austin

Member of the Advisory Council

Jul 2017Present · 8 yrs 8 mos

Microsoft

Software Design Engineer Intern

Jun 2004Aug 2004 · 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Designed and implemented a desktop application in .NET framework to support Microsoft’s next generation mapping products.

Logistics.com (acquired by manhattan associates)

Software Engineer

Jul 2002Jun 2003 · 11 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · On-site

  • Worked in a team developing solutions for the transportation industry using J2EE technologies.

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Masters — Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

B.Tech. — Computer Science & Engineering

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