Viraj Mahesh
Senior Product Manager at YouTube
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolViraj Mahesh is a Senior Product Manager at YouTube with 12 years of experience building consumer-facing products that improve video discovery, playback, and accessibility. At YouTube he led features like smart downloads, automatic chapters, pinch-to-zoom, precise seeking, and picture-in-picture, demonstrating a knack for turning nuanced user pain points into widely used platform capabilities. His background blends hands-on engineering and product: early roles include software engineering at Okta and Infosys, APM work across Google Voice and YouTube, and contributions to an open-source visual programming project (adding screenshot functionality to the Snap language). Trained in EECS at UC Berkeley and a former CS instructor, he combines technical depth, user empathy for emerging-market constraints, and experience shipping at scale across mobile and cloud ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English
Stackoverflow
1,784reputation
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14answers
40questions
Github Skills (11)
snap10
programming-language10
javascript10
image-manipulation9
blocks9
user-interface9
eclipse-cdt6
console-application6
windows6
opencv6
mingw6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jmoenig/Snap
Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
a visual programming language inspired by Scratch
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Viraj primarily contributed to the implementation of a screenshot feature within the visual programming language. They added a block to save the stage image or pen trails as costumes and implemented the functionality, including handling image naming and saving the image. The user also addressed several bugs and made adjustments to ensure proper integration with the existing codebase.
bjcvisualbyobcompilervisual-programming-language
virajmahesh/laundry-assistant
Jun 2019 - Mar 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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