Abhishek Kumar

𝐋𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐆 𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞(𝐢.𝐞. 𝐌𝐋+𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚) 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 • Brought Reels from being negative to IG’s engagement and retention to being the majority(50%+) contributor to IG’s year-over-year engagement and retention growth. Grew Reels from accounting for less than 5% of time-spent on IG, to 50%+. Achieved these during a span of 2 years. • Grew the team from 25 to 150+, including 4 Senior Managers, 7 Senior Staff Engineers and 1 Distinguished Engineer(Engineering Director) 𝐋𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐆 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 • Built IG Feed Recommendations from scratch and over 1.5 years establishing it as the majority contributor to IG Feed’s year-over-year engagement and retention growth. Grew its footprint(impressions) on Feed from 0 to 30%. • Grew the team from 0 to 30. Hired/grew 2 Senior Managers and 2 Senior Staff Engineers. • Successfully delivered the largest unification of 2 relevance systems at Meta: IG Feed’s Recommendations and Connected Ranking - beating the deadline by 30%. • Drove merging of Feed Recommendations and Connected Feed teams into IG Feed Relevance, a team of 80+ ICs+EMs. 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐆 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 0-1 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭<>𝐌𝐋 𝐈𝐆 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐬 • Successfully launched multiple 0-1 IG big-bets with strong impact - Reposts, AI translation/dubbing, Friendly Feed, Photos-Carousels in Reels Tab. • Grew the team from 0 to 40 including 1 Senior Manager and 2 Senior Staff Engineers. 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 (𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 60+ 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝) • Delivered several SoTA ML initiatives successfully: Foundational models(LLMs), Longterm user interaction(sequence) modeling through Transformers, Content Exploration.

𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐁’𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐅𝐁 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐧𝐚𝐩𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭. • Grew the team from 0 to 20 over a period of 1.5 years. • Led FB’s Feed Ranking, delivering sustained impact - largest contributor to engagement on FB. • Founded FB’s Music Recommendation initiative and established it as an impactful lever for Creation - 15% of FB’s Creation growth for 3 years following its inception.

𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬 • Built a quality Marketplace Search ranking singlehandedly in less than a week. This unblocked the launch of Marketplace and was a sustained foundation for ranking impact over the next 2 years. • Took on as the TL on FB’s Trending product. Grew its engagement by 40%+ over a period of 5 months, through a team of 4. Shipped Search’s first realtime and sparse heavy large ML model. • In addition, delivered impactful launches on ranking and infra for almost all Search verticals - entities, videos, photos, places, news. 𝐓𝐋 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡’𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 (8 𝐈𝐂𝐬) • blending and ranking Search results from 10+ content types. 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐅𝐁 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡’𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦.