Shariq Rizvi

Shariq Rizvi is the Executive Vice President of Monetization at Reddit, Inc., where he oversees the Monetization and Ads Product teams. Prior to joining Reddit, Shariq was a Director of Engineering at Twitter, where he led efforts to scale the company’s early advertising operation into a multi-billion dollar business. Between 2012-2016, Shariq co-launched the company’s performance ads business, built out hundred-person engineering teams from the ground up and helped steer the company through its IPO. Rizvi has also had a highly successful track record as an independent entrepreneur. In 2008, he co-founded Dasient, an enterprise startup backed by Google Ventures, Floodgate Fund, Benhamou Global Ventures, Radar Partners and Reese Schonfeld, the co-founder of CNN. In 2012, Twitter acquired Dasient to power the security for its own online advertising system. Shariq was also a co-founder of enterprise startup Netsil, which was acquired by Nutanix in 2018 to complement the company’s Enterprise Cloud Operating System. Shariq began his career as an engineer at Google, helping to build web search, App Engine and the Google Calculator. Rizvi holds an MS in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from the India Institute of Technology. His undergraduate research in database research has made him one of the youngest published authors in the field.