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Ashish Gupta

Director of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 11+ years in engineering leadership roles
  • Expert in AI-centric product development
  • Proven track record in scaling systems for billions
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Social Media technology with a focus on AI-driven systems.

Contact

ashgup@stanford.eduLinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

AlgorithmsCrowdsourcingData MiningDatabasesDistributed SystemsInformation RetrievalSocial Network Analysis

About

Engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building large-scale ranking, recommendation, and discovery systems. At Facebook, led teams shaping the creator ecosystem driving engagement and growth across Feed, Reels, and Notifications. Spearheaded initiatives that improved the public conversations ecosystem, scaled comment ranking to billions of users, and advanced search experiences for video, news, and real-time content.Recognized for operating at the intersection of technical depth and organizational scale - developing high-performing teams, mentoring future technical leaders, and delivering AI-centric products.

Experience

Meta

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 2 mos · Menlo Park

  • Senior Engineering Manager, Public Content Relevance**
  • Leading public conversations strategy across Facebook, spanning multiple surfaces (Feed, Videos) and formats (Posts, Reels). Drive creator relevance and discovery through advanced ranking and retrieval systems, powering new inspiration surfaces across Feed and Notifications.
  • Engineering Manager, Creator Engagement**
  • Scaled comment ranking systems to support the broader public content ecosystem across multiple verticals, impacting billions of daily interactions. Founded and led initiatives to improve creator experience with enhanced Notification experience, dedicated Composer and inspiration focussed Feed.
  • Staff Software Engineer/TLM, Comment Ranking**
  • Founded and led Facebook’s Comment Ranking effort, designing the end-to-end ranking stack (retrieval → ranking → delivery). Delivered step change improvement in engagement of public conversations.
  • Senior Software Engineer, Search Ranking**
  • Led the first version of Post Search on Facebook, making billions of posts searchable for the first time. Designed vertical search strategies for News, Sports, and Celebrities with customized search result pages. Spearheaded Video Search ranking improvements, driving engagement with video content.
  • Software Engineer, Entities Data & Ranking**
  • Developed core features of Facebook’s Entities Graph (page category prediction, entity deduplication, and entity resolution). Integrated Entities Graph into multiple product surfaces, significantly improving search and discovery experiences for users.
Machine LearningAlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringData MiningSocial Network AnalysisCrowdsourcing+3

Facebook

Intern

Jul 2013 – Sep 2013 · 2 mos · Menlo Park

  • Enhanced Facebook’s Entities Graph (https://www.facebook.com/notes/10158791581767200/) with better attribute prediction models, improving Search relevance and results quality.

Microsoft research

Intern

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Redmond

  • Analyzed energy consumption patterns for Windows Phone apps, designing predictive models to estimate power usage with high accuracy. Identified anomalous patterns and provided insights that influenced energy efficiency strategies on the platform.

Education

Stanford University

Master of Science (MS) — Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Computer Science

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