Prachi Gupta

Prachi Gupta is the current Vice President of Engineering at Discord. Prachi was previously the Director of Engineering at LinkedIn from May 2010 to July 2020. During their time at LinkedIn, they led the R&D teams for the Feed, Sharing, and Content Platform teams, focused on reimagining the conversation and knowledge sharing experience on LinkedIn. Prachi was recognized by Business Insider as one of the most powerful female engineers in Tech in 2018.

Prior to their role as Director of Engineering, Prachi led engineering for the Messenger, Groups, Identity Engagement and Insights teams at LinkedIn. These include products and frameworks like LinkedIn messaging, real time platform, InMails, Groups, Skill Endorsements, Who Viewed My Profile/Mirror, Profile Recommendations, Year In Review, Site Promotions, Microsites etc.

Prachi co-founded various programs at LinkedIn that drove the spirit of innovation forward, such as:

* Conceived and piloted LinkedIn's current development model used across all of engineering

* Developed features and frameworks that helped increase membership growth by >15%.

* LinkedIn labs site

* LinkedIn's internal and public hackathons.

* Internal and public events promoting and encouraging Women in Technology.

* LinkedIn [in]cubator; a program to drive grass roots innovation at Linkedin.

Prachi Gupta has a Bachelors in Computer Applications from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya and a Masters in Computer Applications from the same school in the field of Computer Science. Prachi also has a certification from Big Nerd Ranch in Android Programming.

Their manager is Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Co-Founder & CTO. Prachi Gupta works with Florina Xhabija Grosskurth - Chief of Staff, Engineering, Chen Chang - Head of Data Engineering, and Sergei Sorokin - VP, Product. Some direct reports include Gary Colman - Director of Platform Engineering, Vivek Tripathi - Senior Director of Engineering.