Head of Engineering

Software Development Management New York City, New York, United States

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Prior to layoff from Meta in May, 2023

Professional Profile: I led a Global Engineering organization at Meta, that focuses on building, launching and scaling Business Messaging and Click to Message Advertising solutions to help millions of Businesses connect with 2.5B+ consumers across Metas messaging surfaces (WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger). My team comprises of Engineering Leaders (M1s and M2s) in each market (APAC, IN, LATAM, US, EMEA), with two key areas of focus:-
Drive adoption of Business Messaging products and lead technical go-to-market initiatives for helping Meta exceed goaled revenue targets for Business Messaging and Click-to-Message Ads business.
Build Business Messaging experiences and launch 0 to 1 to aid Product Market Fit initiatives for Business Development initiatives. Some examples include Native Shopping Experiences on WhatsApp.
Current Role / Title: Head of Platform Solutions, Business Engineering, Meta. Career interests:
Strategic leadership: Building and leading large scale engineering organizations with key contributions to organization's revenue goals and engineering excellence.
People leadership: Servant leader, helping the team members realize their full potential and impact. I consistently received an upwards feedback score of 95%+ (Feedback transcripts available upon request).
Career development: I invest my time in coaching and building talent, regularly help my team leaders and members with sponsorships to leadership and engineering programs (Stanford, MIT) and am myself a continuous learner.

Past Experience (10+ years at Google, 2.5+ years at Amazon) in various roles:
Head of Customer Engineering, Google Cloud
Head of Ads Engineering, Google Ads
Staff Engineer