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Gaurav Kumar

VP of Engineering

Union City, California, United States13 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering at Atlassian shaping teamwork's future.
  • Scaled VR monetization and user engagement at Meta.
  • Drove creator payouts exceeding $1B annually.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and VR expert with a strong focus on product development and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct DevelopmentBusiness StrategySoftware Engineering

Other Skills

AILow-code developmentData analyticsSemantic dataDashboard developmentVR developmentUser engagementMonetization strategiesMonetizationVideo adsBrand collaborationsWeb developmentContent optimizationInfrastructure developmentORM frameworks

Experience

13 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
12 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 2 mos
Current Experience

Atlassian

VP of Engineering

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

  • Working on three pillars, focused on shaping the future of teamwork.
  • Rovo Studio: Low-code environment to design and deploy AI teammates, automations and apps that extend Atlassian products and accelerate workflows.
  • Teamwork Graph: Semantic data layer that connects people, work, and knowledge (system of work) to power context-aware search, recommendations, and AI.
  • Atlassian Analytics & Data Experiences: Unified analytics platform that combines Jira, Confluence, and external data into interactive dashboards and actionable insights.
AILow-code developmentData analyticsSemantic dataEngineering ManagementProduct Development

Meta

4 roles

Director of Eng, VR

Sep 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos · On-site

  • Shipped Quest 3 and Quest 3S headsets, building across App Store, search/recommendations and Horizon Worlds runtime.
  • Had the mandate of growing VR monetization and user engagement at scale.
VR developmentUser engagementMonetization strategiesProduct DevelopmentEngineering Management

Director/Manager, Facebook Creator Monetization

Promoted

Dec 2016 – Sep 2022 · 5 yrs 9 mos · On-site

  • Built tipping, subscriptions, brand collabs and video ads, serving the monetization needs of different creator cohorts.
  • Scaled User Pay from inception to $200M ARR; drove creator payouts to >$1B annually.
MonetizationVideo adsBrand collaborationsProduct DevelopmentBusiness Strategy

Software Engineer, Facebook App

Aug 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · On-site

  • Launched Instant Articles with 10x faster load time for web pages, while enabling rich content consumption.
  • https://buffer.com/library/facebook-instant-articles/
Web developmentContent optimizationSoftware Engineering

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Jun 2012 – Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · On-site

  • Facebook Web Infrastructure (2014-2015):
  • Improved & optimized Hack language(PHP dialect developed by Meta) & HHVM.
  • Built EntSchema (in-house privacy-aware ORM framework), used as the primary way of storing, mutating and retrieving schematized data for most of Meta products.
  • Meta Caching Infra (2012 - 2014) :
  • Built core infra (tao & memcache) , serving over 1 billion read requests and millions of write requests per second at the time (2013).
  • Shipped the graph(fbid) indexing service integrated with tao, enabling string to node maps.
Infrastructure developmentORM frameworksSoftware Engineering

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2008 – Jan 2012

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