Surahbi Gupta

Chief Technology Officer

2024 - Current

Board Member

2024

Advisor and Investor

2023

Working with early stage startups

SVP of Engineering

2020 - 2023

SVP, Head of Engineering: March 2022 onwards VP, Head of Engineering: Jan 2021 - Feb 2022 VP Product Engineering: May 2020 - Jan 2021 During my tenture at Robinhood, I was responsible for the Engineering function, including Data Science, Corp Eng/IT, QA/QE, TPMs.

Director Of Engineering

2013 - 2020

May 2017 - May 2020 I led Airbnb’s Homes engineering team, the core business covering areas such as Core Host, Prohost, Guest, Growth, Lux, Plus, Airbnb for Work, Market Dynamics. This was a team of 400+ engineers across all parts of the stack. I was also responsible for the cross functional Homes Platform team which included efforts around scaling efficiently, inclusively and responsibly. Some highlights: - Doubled the Homes engineering team between 2017 and 2019. - Strong partnership with recruiting bringing in senior engineering leaders. - Built out the TPM team for Homes. - Advocate for having a strong technical foundation focusing on a services oriented architecture, performance and data quality. - Saw the company grow from 60->1500 engineers. Nov 2016 - May 2017 Led the 100+ engineer Marketplace Conversion team. This included the product, infrastructure and machine learning models to power our Search, Pricing and Booking teams. I also managed the Core Models team which is building out services to manage the data all teams use e.g. listing, user, reservations. July 2014 - Nov 2016 Engineering Manager leading the Search & Discovery and Application Infrastructure teams. July 2013 - June 2014 Software Engineer on the Search team.

Staff Software Engineer

2007 - 2013

April 2011 - present: Joined Ramanathan Guha's team as a founding member to build a stateful task-based search experience. The recommendations and personalization systems built became a part of Google Now (predictive search). - Led the real estate card launch for Google Now: http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2013/02/new-google-now-more-of-information-you.html - Worked on the research card for Google Now: http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2012/12/new-google-now-perfect-travel-companion.html (suggesting websites for you to explore as you research things to do) July 2007 - Apr 2011: Part of the Search Quality / Web Ranking team where I worked on improving the relevance of search results. - Launched several changes to improve the search results for users outside the US by taking their location and languages they speak into account. Google gets more than 50% of its search traffic from outside the US. - Launched ranking changes accounting for local information that is relevant for the city/state a user is in. - Worked with webmasters and led the project to launch new guidelines: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/09/unifying-content-under-multilingual.html

Research Assistant and Student

2005 - 2007

Masters with a distinction in research. Specialization in Artificial Intelligence.

Research Intern

2006 - 2006

We worked on creating a system for producing scalable summaries of conversations extracted from video content. The paper we published on the work: Sumit Basu, Surabhi Gupta, Milind Mahajan, Patrick Nguyen, and John C. Platt. "Scalable Summaries of Spoken Conversations." Appeared in Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces 2008 (IUI '08). January, 2008.

Research Intern

2005 - 2005