Chirag Mahapatra is an accomplished engineering leader with a background in Operations Research and Machine Learning. With experience working for high growth companies like Facebook and Airbnb, he specializes in solving complex problems in Growth and Integrity using machine learning, backend and front end technologies. He is a co-founder and CTO at Blaze AI, which is a Y Combinator backed company. Prior to this, Chirag has had a career working for companies such as Meta, Trooly (Acquired by Airbnb), A9.com, and Goldman Sachs. Alongside his professional pursuits, Chirag has also served as a graduate teaching assistant at UC Berkeley College of Engineering.