Deepank Gupta

deepankgupta@gmail.com . 650 933 3257 . Belmont, CA

Summary

Experienced leader(Meta, Google, Airbnb, and LinkedIn) with 10+ YOE developing product and engineering strategy. I have led 0->1 efforts, built teams from scratch, led very senior engineering teams, support engineering managers and experience working in Machine Learning, Product, Backend, Privacy and Infrastructure.

Experience

2018 - Present, Engineering Manager, Meta Inc. Menlo Park CA

  • Building a platform to implement Privacy quickly, smoothly, and without mistakes. Kickstarted a new 0->1 effort to create a rich, high-quality privacy graph connecting billions of code and data assets with the products they serve. Over the last two years, it has become a foundational infrastructure across Meta to describe the scope of the privacy policy and generate automated reports for GDPR and FTC compliance.
  • I have built the org from the ground up, hiring and growing senior engineers and supporting three different teams through managers.
  • Before this, I led the effort to prevent misinformation from going viral on the Facebook platform, building ML detection systems, infrastructure for measurement and evaluation, products for fact-checking organizations, and user-facing features in the Facebook app to inform users better about misinformation. Supported multiple teams distributed across the West Coast.

2016 - 2018, Engineering Manager, Airbnb Inc. San Francisco CA

  • Led teams developing dynamic pricing and promotions efforts to pilot discount creation on listings leveraging machine learning. We directly drove XX Million incremental nights booked (+5% topline growth).
  • Piloted insights product to hosts building platform and built personalized ranking. Grew the team from 3 to 15 engineers.

2012 - 2016, Staff Software Engineer / Engineering Manager, LinkedIn Inc. Mountain View CA

  • Started as a software engineer, eventually grew to lead server mobile infrastructure at Linkedin in Node.js.
  • Transitioned to Engineering Manager eventually leading a team of 10 engineers working on Linkedin Search and discovery.

2009 - 2012, Software Engineer, Google Inc. Mountain View CA

  • Developed metrics, search quality evals and end to end pipelines on keyword based ad targeting project.

Education

2011-2013: Comp Sci Graduate Certificate , Stanford University**

  • Mining Massive Data Sets

2005-2009: BE, Information Technology; University of Delhi

  • Ranked 3rd in my batch

Open Source Projects, Papers, Patents

Hobbies/Interests

  • Teach computer science to high school students through TEALS