Summary
Reza Parang is a product leader with 11 years of experience building ML-driven, consumer-facing systems and risk products across high-growth tech companies in the Bay Area. He’s led foundational ads automation at Meta that materially offset IDFA headwinds, stood up Reddit’s first Trust & Safety PM organization to scale abuse detection, and owned Search/CRM and payment integrations at Square impacting millions of users. Now at Coinbase he focuses on Risk and ML, pairing deep product instincts with hands-on experience shipping models into production. He began his career bringing early computer vision and NLP prototypes to market at Banjo and honed cross-functional execution at Oracle after Vitrue’s acquisition. A Duke M.E. and Virginia Tech engineer by training, he blends rigorous systems thinking with practical customer-first tradeoffs—often surfacing simple product levers that unlock complex ML value.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.E., Engineering Management, M.E., Engineering Management at Duke University
B.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, B.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Magna Cum Laude at Virginia Tech