Ashish Gupta

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in engineering leadership.
  • Expert in trust and safety engineering.
  • Strong experience in building high-performing teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on trust and safety engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipProduct StrategyMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceTrust And Safety EngineeringTrust And SafetyWebsite OptimizationInternal Tools Development

Other Skills

Team buildingCross-functional collaborationData analysisAutomationTeam managementSoftware DesignJavaC++Recommender Systems

About

Senior engineering and product leader who can solve real world problems through technology. I have immense hunger to use my time in meaningful ways to create a big positive impact on the world. I am a deeply hands-on leader who gets things done end to end doing whatever it takes: * Identify problems worth solving aligned with my organization's mission and priorities, assess product market fit through rapid prototyping and experimentation and create vision, strategy and roadmap grounded in deep research and product / technology intuition * Pitch to senior leadership to secure the needed funding and set up teams ground up covering hiring, coaching, org design, talent management, site culture and more * Build a strong line up of leaders and work closely with them to deliver at high velocity and quality * Experience of working on both self-contained efforts as well as efforts that require working in complex matrix organizations - identify dependencies, build cross-geographic partnerships, set up multi-year joint roadmaps with engineering as well as non-engineering partners (e.g. legal, operations, policy) * Expert storyteller with track record of managing a diverse set of stakeholders for success * Site leadership experience - grow leader, mentor people, design and contribute to site programs to help build a scalable and thriving organization

Experience

23 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
18 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Google

7 roles

Senior Director of Engineering, Maps

Promoted

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Eengineering site lead for Google Maps in Bangalore. Established multiple orgs ground up for Google Maps in India.
  • Geo data trust and safety platform (Jan 2013 - Present)
  • UGC contributor success and delight (Jan 2023 - Present)
  • AI driven automation and efficiency for human operational workflows (Aug 2024 - Present)
  • Small merchant (SMB) growth (Jan 2025 - Present)
  • Maps intelligence (Jan 2026 - Present)
Engineering leadershipProduct strategyTeam buildingCross-functional collaboration

Director of Engineering, Maps

Promoted

Oct 2019Oct 2023 · 4 yrs

  • Solo founding member of trust and safety engineering team for Google maps. Set up Google Maps BLR team to work in the domain ground up. Grew to a 50 people organization that build an ML based platform for Trust and Safety for Google maps with capabilities for Day-0 abuse protection, manual review tools, spamfire protection and ML based bespoke protection for key Geo data types (places, reviews, media)
Team managementMachine LearningTrust and safety engineering

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Maps

Promoted

Oct 2016Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Trust and safety for Google Maps
Trust and safetyTeam management

Staff Software Engineer, Maps

Jan 2014Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Trust and safety for Google Maps
Trust and safety

Senior Software Engineer, Search

Promoted

Jan 2012Dec 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Service for website optimization in real time
Website optimization

Software Engineer (L4), AdWords

Jun 2009Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Internal tools for Google Ads - Duplicate account matching tool, ads account review tool
  • ML models for stolen credit card detection on Google AdWords
Internal tools developmentMachine Learning

Software Engineer (L3), Corp Eng

Jun 2007May 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Internal tools for Google - salary planning system, internal job and learning board, HR system
Internal tools development

None

Angel Investor

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Supporting startups working to solve for India or working on driving technology in the AI/ML space: vectrous.com, polymerize.io, theweddingcompany.com, earthsense.co, alveo.fit, turboml.com, curacare.in

Microsoft

Software Design Engineer Intern

Jun 2006Aug 2006 · 2 mos

Machine Learning

Vanderbilt university

Graduate Research Assistant

Aug 2003May 2007 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Nashville, USA

  • 4 years in grad school focused on research in Machine Learning. Completed MS. PhD dropout. Selected research papers:
  • https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/07/Papers/063.pdf
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092523121100422X

Persistent systems

Member of Technical Staff

Jun 2002Jul 2003 · 1 yr 1 mo

Education

Vanderbilt University

MS — Computer Science

Jan 2003Jan 2007

Maharashtra Institute of Technology

BE — Computer Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2002

KV NDA

High School

Jan 1996Jan 1998

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