Head of Ad Product Engineering - Maps, Camera (AR) & Chat

Serve as the strategic Single-Threaded Leader (STL) for Snap’s highest-growth ad surfaces (Maps, Camera/AR, Chat) and the Ads Marketplace. Owner of the organizational design, cost alignment and multi-year technical roadmap. Drive cross-functional strategy with Product, ML Infra, and Content, leading weekly execution reviews with executive leadership. Additionally, held end-to-end ownership as Head of Ads Marketplace, overseeing auction dynamics, pricing, bidding, and responsible monetization (balancing organic vs. ad impact) across all Snapchat surfaces. Lead a multi-disciplinary organization comprising - Backend, Client, Full-stack, and Data Science teams. Instituted operational rigor (SLAs, OKRs) and led weekly strategy and execution reviews.

Head of Facebook Search Ads

Served as the Single-Threaded Leader (STL) for Search Ads across the Facebook App (News Feed, Marketplace, Watch, Games). Owned the product vision, technical roadmap, and organizational design for a vertical responsible for ad ranking, retrieval, and format delivery. Designed and scaled the organization (across 3 pillars: Backend, Mobile, Web, ML), establishing the technical vision and hiring pipeline for rapid product velocity. Led cross-functional alignment with critical partner organizations (Privacy, ML Infra, Mobile Platform, Core Product). Orchestrated reliability goals, and operational reviews for a broader organization while influencing roadmaps for partner teams in Privacy and ML Infra.

Head of post-ordering experience

Led product and platform execution for Amazon’s high-scale Customer Trust systems to delight their post-purchase experience, covering Seller Reviews, Claims, and Returns. Owned the 3-year technical vision and roadmap, driving agile execution across Product, UX, and Engineering while establishing operational standards for the broader organization. Successfully built the Seller Reviews and Claims teams from the ground up. Drove organization wide operational excellence initiatives.

Founding Engineer - Search

Architected and launched ATLAS, the global catalog search (Text & Image) platform powering Seller Central across global marketplaces. Primary use cases include - Enabling product search for seller listings, Brand Protection (TradeMark/Logo violations) using search. Designed one of the industry’s largest Elasticsearch implementations at the time. Built a high-throughput ingestion pipeline, enabling real-time indexing for brand protection and safety workflows. Designed novel read/write isolation patterns to preserve SLAs during peak concurrency, ensuring zero data loss and high availability for global sellers.

* SQL Criticial Resource Management team - Lead the effort to manage critical resources like disk space, memory, CPU etc by analyzing trends and making predictions using Machine Learning models.

* SQL Azure Monitoring Team - Owned watchdog infrastructure that runs watchdogs to detect service health. Owned SQL DMV Collection service to collect service data stored in DMVs and store them in a central query-able store to alert based on this data.

* SQL Azure FrontEnd Services Team - Owned Gateway (SQL TDS proxy) service that manages and scales to variety of client connections to SQL Azure service. Owned the idea and implemented new DOS protection mechanism for SQL Azure service. Lead a team of a PM and tester to land this patentable idea into production.

* SQL Connectivity team - Worked on several projects for the SQL network connectivity protocols team for SQL Server. Learnt the underlying networking stack on top of TCP used for communicating with SQL Server.

Worked in the Applied logic lab with Prof. I. V. Ramakrishnan on "Hearsay" an artificially intelligent web browser plugin for blind users.

• Worked as a research assistant in a team of 8 other students

• Managed the “Dialog Generation and Form Filling” module that enables identification, navigation, filling and submission of form elements on the web pages.

• Used technologies like VXML and JAVA to enhance it.