Ragavan S
VP, Product at Meta
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
VP, Product
2023 - Current
Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communities, and grow businesses.
Raised $25,607,817,488.00 from ValueAct Capital.
Responsible Innovation
2022 - 2023
Looking to partner with founders applying AI/ML to transform industries & build enduring businesses.
Partner
2022 - 2023
General Catalyst partners with ambitious founders to drive resilience and applied AI from seed to growth.
Head of Product, Facebook AI
2012 - 2021
[2016 - ] I lead the Product Management function for Facebook AI. We are a central innovation team. We build state of the art AI/ML technologies, platforms and experiences for all of Facebook Inc, spanning research to production. [2014 - 2016] I helped define Facebook's Android strategy and drove cross-company teams that built products to implement this strategy. These products covered a broad surface area including: Maps, Push Notifications, App Distribution Services, solutions for mobile operators and device manufacturers and more. [2012 - 2014] I led product teams that built the native version of Facebook's Android app. We built an app that crashed less, started up much faster, reduced data usage significantly and made the people who used it measurably happier. I've been the product champion for Android inside Facebook, including getting us to focus on building experiences for the typical phone/connection/user in emerging markets.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Director of Product, Apps
2009 - 2012
I lead Product Management for Mozilla's HTML5 Apps initiative. We are building a user-centric Apps ecosystem that combines the best elements of the app model with the best elements of the Web. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/Roadmap for more details. Graduated Firefox Sync from Mozilla Labs and shipped as integrated feature in Firefox 4 to 400M+ users on desktop and mobile (http://firefox.com/sync) Shipped 1.0 of Firefox Home, Mozilla's first iPhone App in 15+ languages.
“You Should Probably” is a Firefox extension that will remind you to do something useful with your life whenever you visit your favorite
Vice President, Founder
2008 - 2011
Kids on Computers is working to set up computer labs running free/open source software for schools in developing countries.
Kids on Computers (KOC) is a nonprofit organization comprised of a group of volunteers who want to bring computers.
Program Manager - Open Source
2007 - 2009
Open source @ VMware. open-vm-tools, packages.vmware.com etc.
VMware Cloud allows users to run, manage, connect and secure an entire portfolio on any cloud to any device.
Open Source Program Office
2001 - 2007
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud company that uses comprehensive solutions to accelerate business outcomes.
Raised $1,350,000,000.00.
Education
MS
1999 - 2000