Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States · On-site

• 𝐋𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐆 𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞(𝐢.𝐞. 𝐌𝐋+𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚) 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
• Brought Reels from being negative to IG’s engagement and retention to being the majority(50%+) contributor to IG’s year-over-year engagement and retention growth. Grew Reels from accounting for less than 5% of time-spent on IG, to 50%+. Achieved these during a span of 2 years.
• Grew the team from 25 to 150+, including 4 Senior Managers, 7 Senior Staff Engineers and 1 Distinguished Engineer(Engineering Director)
• 𝐋𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐆 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬
• Built IG Feed Recommendations from scratch and over 1.5 years establishing it as the majority
• contributor to IG Feed’s year-over-year engagement and retention growth. Grew its footprint(impressions) on Feed from 0 to 30%.
• Grew the team from 0 to 30. Hired/grew 2 Senior Managers and 2 Senior Staff Engineers.
• Successfully delivered the largest unification of 2 relevance systems at Meta: IG Feed’s Recommendations and Connected Ranking - beating the deadline by 30%.
• Drove merging of Feed Recommendations and Connected Feed teams into IG Feed Relevance, a team of 80+ ICs+EMs.
• 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐆 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 0-1 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭<>𝐌𝐋 𝐈𝐆 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐬
• Successfully launched multiple 0-1 IG big-bets with strong impact - Reposts, AI translation/dubbing, Friendly Feed, Photos-Carousels in Reels Tab.
• Grew the team from 0 to 40 including 1 Senior Manager and 2 Senior Staff Engineers.
• 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 (𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 60+ 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝)
• Delivered several SoTA ML initiatives successfully: Foundational models(LLMs), Longterm user interaction(sequence) modeling through Transformers, Content Exploration.