Pankaj GuptaCo Founder

United States - Palo Alto, California

I am a combo engineering, data and product person. Love building delightful consumer products that are easy to use and based on deep tech, data or insights. Love building great teams that innovate as well as execute with speed and rigor. Absolutely love starting new things!

I am interested in the areas of AI/ML, privacy, cryptography, payments, search and recommendations and everything related to building and growing consumer products.

My past work includes payments/fintech (led eng for Google Pay Consumer worldwide and GPay India), ML/AI for customer support (founded a startup that was acquired), search and recommendations (while at Twitter, I built the original Who-to-follow feature, the Tweepcred reputations system, and invented the then-famous MagicRecs feature), graph databases, and switch and router architectures in the area of Computer Networking (topic of my PhD and first startup).

I have founded three startups, all of which were acquired. I am an angel investor across India and San Francisco Bay Area, and love helping entrepreneurs.

PS: I have published 30+ papers and have 20+ patents -- outside of those that got me a PhD and my first startup, none of the others have ever been useful, so I am now much more a believer in open source than research papers or patents.