Vivek Shrivastava
Director Of Engineering at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolVivek Shrivastava is a technology leader and Director of Engineering based in San Francisco with nine years of industry experience and a PhD in wireless and mobile communications. He combines deep research chops—14+ peer-reviewed papers and nine US patents—with hands-on engineering across embedded firmware, mobile SDKs, and large-scale distributed cloud backends. Vivek built and scaled the first large retail indoor-positioning deployment (20,000 sensors across major US chains) and led ML pipelines that achieved 95% shopper localization accuracy using neural nets and SVMs. As a founder he shipped an AI-driven Android assistant that performs real-time, UI-level automated tech support without API integrations, demonstrating product-first applied research. Today he leads Business Integrity engineering for WhatsApp, focusing on abuse detection and monetization-scale systems while bridging low-level device work and production data-center design. Known for shipping end-to-end solutions—from kernel drivers to cloud services and manufacturing oversight—he blends academic rigor with operational execution.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Sciences (Wireless and mobile communications), PhD, Computer Sciences (Wireless and mobile communications) at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBTech, Computer Science, BTech, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
English, Hindi
Github Skills (6)
android-sdk3
sdk2
android2
kotlin2
vui2
dialogflow2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
InceptAi/dobby-android
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:833 commits, 2 PRs, 378 pushes in 1 year 1 month
viveks9/dobby
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.