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Pankaj Gupta

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Former (Informal) EIR at Kleiner Perkins

Palo Alto, California, United States

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About

Pankaj Gupta is the cofounder and CEO of Yupp AI, where he works on multi-AI products, model routing, evaluations, and multi-agent systems. He previously served as VP of Engineering at Coinbase, leading engineering for consumer products, and as Senior Director of Engineering at Google, where he led engineering for Google Pay Consumer worldwide and Google Pay India; earlier, he built features including Who-to-follow and MagicRecs at Twitter. He has founded four startups, one of which was acquired, is an angel investor in over 25 companies, and has published more than 30 papers and holds over 20 patents.

Experience

  1. YuppCofounder and CEO2024 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
  2. CoinbaseVice President Of Engineering2021 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
  3. GoogleSenior Director Of Engineering2019 — 2021
  4. GoogleDirector Of Engineering2017 — 2019Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  5. Halli Labs / Agara LabsFounder and CEO2017
  6. StayzillaChief Product and Technology Officer2016 — 2017
  7. Specialized TypesCo-founder and Managing Member2015 — 2016San Francisco, California, United States
  8. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers(Informal) EIR2015 — 2016Menlo Park and San Francisco
  9. Twitter, Inc.Sr. Staff ML Eng2009 — 2014San Francisco, California, United States
  10. Twitter, Inc.Sr. Manager, Personalization and Recommendations2011 — 2013San Francisco, California, United States
  11. Twitter, Inc.Technical Lead2010 — 2011
  12. Twitter, Inc.Software Engineer2009 — 2010
  13. Phulki, Inc.Cofounder and CEO2008 — 2009Palo Alto, California, United States
  14. Netlogic Microsystems Inc.Principal Architect and MTS2006 — 2008Mountain View, California, United States
  15. Cypress SemiconductorPrincipal Architect and MTS2002 — 2006San Jose, California, United States
  16. Sahasra Networks Inc.Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer2000 — 2002Palo Alto, California, United States
  17. StanfordResearch Assistant / PhD student1995 — 2000

Skills & more

Start-ups8Computer Science31Machine Learning19Big Data22Management17Information Retrieval24Hadoop22Distributed Systems15Scalability14Software Engineering9Recommender Systems7Networking6
+5 moreAlgorithmsScalaGraphsData SciencePersonalization

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Who is Pankaj Gupta?
Pankaj Gupta is the cofounder and CEO of Yupp AI, where he works on multi-AI products, model routing, evaluations, and multi-agent systems. He previously served as VP of Engineering at Coinbase, leading engineering for consumer products, and as Senior Director of Engineering at Google, where he led engineering for Google Pay Consumer worldwide and Google Pay India; earlier, he built features including Who-to-follow and MagicRecs at Twitter. He has founded four startups, one of which was acquired, is an angel investor in over 25 companies, and has published more than 30 papers and holds over 20 patents.
What companies has Pankaj Gupta invested in?
Investments tracked here include HealthSherpa.
Where did Pankaj Gupta go to school?
Pankaj Gupta studied at Stanford University (PhD, Computer Science); Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering); The Mother's International School.

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