About

Shashank Gupta is a seasoned IT professional with over 17 years of experience in the industry, including 12 years in product management. He is currently a Group Product Manager at Twitter, where he is responsible for driving growth and activation of Twitter users, resulting in a significant increase of over 1 million mDAUs in just 6 months. Prior to his current role, Shashank worked at Google, where he was responsible for commercializing YouTube verticals, paving the way for more compelling, safe, and meaningful brand ads on the platform. He also owned the vision and roadmap for the "Instant Reservation Pricing and Inventory Forecasting" platform for reservation ads. Additionally, Shashank established cutting-edge standards of enterprise identity and access management at Google, paving the path for the first pure corporate IDaaS product from the company. Shashank's expertise lies in creating elegant and simple user-centric product solutions that showcase machine-learned intelligence derived from large volumes of user data and analytics. He has worked on a wide range of product areas, including brand ads, contextual signals and algorithms, automated pricing and forecasting, brand and account safety, identity standards and account security, assistant experiences, local experiences, and search. Throughout his career, Shashank has leveraged machine learning and NLP in many of his products, including search queries (Speller), content understanding for search ranking (web document quality), video safety and language classification, document classification and disambiguation, and language and intent detection. Shashank holds an MBA from IIM and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from NIT Surathkal. His tech stack includes product management, search, ML, NLP, and web. With 18.03 years of relevant experience, Shashank is a highly skilled and accomplished professional in the field of IT and product management.