Utkarsh Srivastava

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Utkarsh Srivastava is a seasoned technical engineering leader currently serving as the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Engineering at Patreon. Here are some key points about his career and experience:

Current Role: SVP Engineering at Patreon, a position he has held since August 2021.
Previous Roles:
- Senior Director of Engineering at Google (January 2016 - August 2021), where he led engineering for various communications products such as Messages, Phone, Google Voice, and Google Chat.
- Held multiple roles at Twitter, including Senior Director of Engineering, Director of Engineering, and Senior Engineering Manager, focusing on content discovery, ads engineering, and promoted products.
- Technical Lead, Ads Infrastructure at Twitter (November 2009 - September 2011).
- Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo! (September 2006 - November 2009), where he was involved in projects like Pig and PNUTS.
Education:
- B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he received the President's Gold Medal.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Sequoia Capital Stanford Graduate Fellowship and the Microsoft Graduate Fellowship.
Research and Achievements: He has worked on various projects, including the development of Pig, a high-level language for data processing over Hadoop, and PNUTS, Yahoo!'s internal large-scale key-value store. He has also received awards for his research papers, such as the Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper award and the best paper award at the ACM SIGMOD 2009 conference.1