About

Anurag Gupta is an accomplished Engineering Manager with over 24 years of experience in the technology industry. Currently, he holds the position of Engineering Manager at WhatsApp, a subsidiary of Facebook. In this role, he is responsible for managing the engineering team and overseeing the development of the messaging platform. Anurag's extensive experience includes his previous role as Senior Director of Engineering at NerdWallet, where he managed a large part of the engineering organization, including all verticals and platform groups. He was responsible for NerdWallet's revenue and user-facing applications, and he created a highly successful marketplace platform group that centralizes product inventory and does personalization, driving significant revenue increase. Anurag also created multiple other platform groups and helped them launch new capabilities such as Machine Learning platform, Search, User-data storage, frameworks for partner integrations, Messaging framework, Data pipelines, etc. He actively reviewed and helped refine software architectures, built institutional knowledge, and documented learnings from production impacting events. He drove website performance improvements and consistent monitoring and escalation policies across the board, resulting in measurable improvements in SEO traffic, service availability, team morale, and revenue-leaks. Anurag also worked as an Algorithms Lead at Lodgiq, where he developed and deployed Machine Learning techniques for demand forecasting and rate recommendations for hotels and markets. Anurag holds a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Machine Learning and Search. He has a proven track record of hiring, retaining, and motivating engineers and managers via challenges, incentives, and career growth paths. He has anchored performance calibration sessions for the entire engineering team and helped company leadership optimize resource allocation, create processes, and organize teams for better managing business. Anurag is an influential leader who has influenced product direction using rapport with product leads and engineering managers.