Feb 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Led engineering for LLaMA platform safety and governance infrastructure, Meta's Generative AI Platform and Foundations, delivering state-of-the-art models at Meta scale during the foundational LLaMA development period.
• Responsible for making GenAI models faster, safer, higher-quality, and production-ready to support new product experiences serving billions of users.
• TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP:
• Built and scaled engineering teams for GenAI platform infrastructure
• Drove technical strategy for LLaMA and Meta AI product development
• Established safety and governance practices for LLM deployment at scale
• Led performance optimization and reliability engineering for GenAI systems
• KEY CONTRIBUTIONS:
• Architected data privacy and safety systems for LLaMA and Meta AI products
• Designed solutions for purpose limitation and memorization risks in LLM training pipelines
• Built governance frameworks for AI data flywheels serving billions of users
• Platform infrastructure enabling rapid GenAI product launches
• Cross-functional partnerships across product, research, and infrastructure
• Skills: Engineering Leadership · Large Language Models (LLMs) · AI Infrastructure · Technical Strategy · AI Safety · Data Privacy · Distributed Systems · Machine Learning · Technical Leadership

Mar 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Led engineering for Meta's Central Health and Well-being organization, delivering COVID-19 response products and global health initiatives at unprecedented scale.
• KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Launched world's largest health survey in partnership with leading health institutions
• Shipped multiple COVID-19 campaigns and products during global pandemic
• Helped 50M+ people take concrete steps toward vaccination through product features
• Significantly increased blood donation rates in 30+ countries through platform features
• Skills: Engineering Leadership · Product Development · Cross-functional Leadership · Technical Strategy · Platform Development · Social Impact · Crisis Response

May 2014 – Feb 2020 · 5 yrs 9 mos

• Led engineering for Facebook Messenger across iOS, Android, and Web platforms, scaling from 600M to 1.8B monthly active users.
• Full engineering responsibility for shipping the app, with significant contributions to product strategy and growth. Promoted to Senior Director after 2 years.
• SCALE & GROWTH:
• Grew engineering team from 30 to 400 engineers
• Scaled product from 600M to 1.8B monthly active users (3x growth)
• Drove revenue growth by orders of magnitude
• Built engineering organization spanning multiple product surfaces
• TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP:
• Shipped major features: Chat, Rooms, Reactions, Camera, Stories
• Led complete app redesign and client rewrite for massive performance improvements
• Built shared platforms used across WhatsApp and Instagram
• Drove performance, reliability, privacy, and integrity initiatives
• Established engineering practices for teams at scale
• CROSS-FUNCTIONAL IMPACT:
• Collaborated on product strategy with product and design leadership
• Established technical roadmap for Messenger's evolution
• Built engineering culture for high-velocity shipping at scale
• One of Meta's largest engineering organizations serving billions of users daily.
• Skills: Engineering Leadership · Platform Development · Mobile Technology · Distributed Systems · Scalability · API Design · Product Strategy · Team Building · Cross-functional Leadership · Performance Engineering

May 2014 – Jan 2015 · 8 mos

• I supported Facebook's Connectivity Labs work on increasing global internet connectivity. I helped ideate the technical and GTM model for Express WiFi for providing affordable WiFi connectivity, and set up partnerships and field studies. It is serving millions of users across Africa and Asia today.

May 2013 – Apr 2014 · 11 mos

• Led a global team of architects, product managers, and engineers in creating the next-generation product line and vision for Alcatel-Lucent’s Subscriber Data Management business.
• Designed a best-in-class platform for managing massive amounts of subscriber data in telecom networks to support mission-critical functions like LTE HSS, IMS, AAA, and HLR, and lot more.

Jul 2008 – Jul 2013 · 5 yrs

• Built a world-class research team and developed a solid program around applications & networking systems for emerging markets and beyond. Focus areas included Mobile content delivery, Privacy, Data Analytics, Social Networking for the Bottom of the Pyramid, Rural Wi-Fi, and DTV Whitespaces.
• Created a strong identity for Bell Labs India by launching Kaveri Mobile Smart Loading venture - scheduling content delivery based on network congestion and using Bluetooth/WiFi to offload networks.
• Led two critical customer projects and worked closely with the regional sales teams to grow business.
• Played a leadership role in the local innovation eco-system, including universities, industry bodies, and govt. organizations.
• Impact: Helped the Sales Team win two multi-million dollar deals, Guided the team to create two new products – Mobile Smart Loading and Transport Sensor Network, and several research papers and patents.

Sep 2005 – Jul 2008 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Launched a mobile application start-up as part of Alcatel-Lucent Ventures. Developed Geopepper location-based mobile social networking and proximity marketing service, based on a unique geofencing platform.
• Founding: Came up with the concept, created the business plan which was chosen by an internal funding board, and built a team across USA, Poland, and China.
• R&D: Developed patent-pending solutions for geofencing, designed features and architecture, developed & tested multiple modules of the product.
• Business: Worked closely with the GM of the venture in evolving the business model and marketing it to wireless operators, content providers, and VCs.
• Business Impact: Transitioned the venture into the flagship LBS platform for Alcatel-Lucent.

Jun 2010 – Jun 2013 · 3 yrs · Bangalore Area, India

• Ran boot camps for early stage start-ups as part of a small group of entrepreneurs and angel investors. Mission: Turn Bangalore into India’s Silicon Valley.
• Impact: Personally guided the founders of RecruiterBox and MoneyVidya.

Jan 2005 – Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 11 mos · NJ

• Developed novel services with the goal of learning latest programming tools while helping the world for free
• Alertpedia (www.alertpedia.com) - world’s largest source of semantically rich alerts. Developed the PHP backend which scales almost indefinitely and crawls and scrapes 1000s of web pages.
• BuzzAlike (http://www.buzzalike.com) – social chat widget and text analytics. Developed a high-performance messenger backend using nodejs, redis, websockets; frontend portal and downloadable javascript widget; analytics dashboard; and an upcoming Android application.
• Impact: Over 100000 alerts go out every day from Alertpedia.com, since 2006.

Aug 2002 – Jun 2008 · 5 yrs 10 mos

• Led a team of researchers in location-based mobile applications, IMS/SIP, and network planning tools for IP-Optical networks.
• Business Impact: Commercialized the iLocator LBS application, and the WaveBuilder DWDM Optical long-haul network design tool, both helping sell multi-million dollar platforms from Lucent Technologies
• Research Impact: Several patents and research publications

Aug 1996 – Aug 2002 · 6 yrs

• Worked with a world-class team of computer scientists and statisticians to conduct research in databases, web technologies, and network management
• Published several papers in prestigious conferences like ACM SIGMOD & IEEE VLDB
• Developed the data management layer for Softwave, an Network Management System for optical cross connects
• Aqua - approximate query answering system for OLAP queries over large data warehouses
• Join Synopses for summarizing large databases with statistical guarantees
• Netblitz multiresolution internet proxy for serving aggressively compressed content over slow links
• Research Impact: Several Tier-1 publications, Join Synopses taught in universities.
• Business Impact: Trialed NetBlitz to 100s of employees and tried selling to ISPs in UK; SoftWave successfully managed multi-million dollar network deployments.

Jan 2000 – Jul 2000 · 6 mos

• Taught a graduate course on Database Systems.

May 1994 – Dec 1994 · 7 mos

• • Implemented histogram statistics in DB2 query optimizer based on my PhD research.