Kunal Modi
Senior Engineering Manager, Base Ads at Coinbase
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKunal Modi is a seasoned engineering and product leader with 14 years of experience building consumer-facing products and growth systems, now leading Base Ads at Coinbase to develop an on-chain growth protocol. He has a strong track record as a founder and operator—CTO of Spindl (acquired by Coinbase) after raising a $7M+ seed round—and earlier co-founded Thirst, a VC-backed social news app. Kunal has led high-impact growth and homepage teams at Airbnb and was a founding engineer and tech lead on Facebook Live Video, shipping features that scaled to millions of users. He blends hands-on technical depth (UC Berkeley EECS) with startup grit and enterprise-scale product delivery, frequently operating at the intersection of product, growth, and infrastructure. Notably, his work spans both traditional consumer web products and emerging on-chain protocols, reflecting a curiosity for new platforms and a focus on measurable user growth.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. EECS, B.S. EECS at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Degree, High School Degree at The Harker School
Github Skills (67)
candy-machine10
ethereum-token10
google-bigquery9
erc7219
csv9
candy9
transaction9
twitter-client9
nft9
twitter-api9
erc209
api8
sql8
twitter8
markdown8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kunalmodi/web3-exploration
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
kunalmodi/battlesnark
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 6 months
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