Ashish Gupta — CTO
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
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on trust and safety engineering.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 23 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Engineering Leadership
- Product Strategy
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Trust And Safety Engineering
- Trust And Safety
- Website Optimization
- Internal Tools Development
Career Highlights
- Proven track record in engineering leadership.
- Expert in trust and safety engineering.
- Strong experience in building high-performing teams.
Work Experience
Senior Director of Engineering, Maps (2 yrs 6 mos)
Director of Engineering, Maps (4 yrs)
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Maps (2 yrs 11 mos)
Staff Software Engineer, Maps (2 yrs 8 mos)
Senior Software Engineer, Search (1 yr 11 mos)
Software Engineer (L4), AdWords (2 yrs 6 mos)
Software Engineer (L3), Corp Eng (1 yr 11 mos)
none
Angel Investor (4 yrs 3 mos)
Microsoft
Software Design Engineer Intern (2 mos)
Vanderbilt University
Graduate Research Assistant (3 yrs 9 mos)
Persistent Systems
Member of Technical Staff (1 yr 1 mo)
Education
MS at Vanderbilt University
BE at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
High School at KV NDA