Amit Puntambekar
Executive Vice President, Engineering at Reddit, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Puntambekar is an experienced engineering executive with nine years in senior leadership roles across Meta, Atlassian, and now Reddit, combining deep expertise in video, AI/ML, cloud and platform engineering. He built and scaled Facebook’s video and VR platforms—driving video to become over half of time spent on the app and enabling a multibillion-dollar creator economy—while earlier co-founding and integrating startups into Meta and Intel. At Atlassian he led Cloud, AI, Data and Ecosystem efforts, and at Reddit he now oversees engineering at scale in the San Francisco Bay Area. Amit blends hands-on systems and media infrastructure knowledge with product-minded organizational leadership, repeatedly taking complex multimedia systems from prototype to massive global scale. A former DARPA Grand Challenge finalist contributor and MSL-listed Meta engineer on GitHub, he brings entrepreneurial instincts alongside enterprise execution.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Github Skills (30)
trino10
sql-query10
spark10
big-data10
hadoop10
java10
hive10
sql10
query-engine10
presto10
database10
blockstack9
blockchain9
sdk9
algorand9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
adkri/personal-blog
Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
adkri/presto
May 2021 - Jun 2022
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:35 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 1 month
jdbchbasebigdatabig-datatrino
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