# Divya Sudhakar

> Staff SWE @ Faire | Ex-Airbnb, Ex-Google

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/divyasudhakar

I’m a Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience building 0→1 products across enterprise, consumer, and data platforms.

I’m drawn to hard technical problems, especially those with the potential for outsize positive impact on how technology interfaces with society. I care deeply about the craft of software engineering and enjoy digging into emerging and bleeding-edge technologies.

Outside of work, I serve on the Alumni Advisory Board for UCLA’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, where I help support the next generation of engineers. I also mentor engineers through MentorCruise (https://mentorcruise.com/mentor/divyasudhakar/).

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Faire
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
I lead foundational platforms and high-leverage initiatives that power growth across Faire’s marketplace. My work focuses on building reusable systems that unlock experimentation, personalization, and faster iteration across teams.

Key initiatives:
- Knowledge Graph combining public web data and first-party marketplace data to model entities and relationships across both sides of the marketplace
- Conductor, a content management and delivery platform powering dynamic marketing messages across web and mobile
- Introduced contextual multi-armed bandits to replace static experimentation, increasing learning velocity and enabling more personalized user experiences

### Engineering Advisor @ MedMountain Ventures
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
- Interim CTO of alvee during the Founder/CEO's parental leave.
- Advise Portfolio companies and consult on Software Engineering and Data Science team creation and best practices.
- Scout for Pre Series-A Healthcare startups: I scouted Epitel (now a Series B company) and Peer Collective.

### Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2021
Worked across Search Ads, YouTube Music, Google Fiber, and Google Apps SRE on large-scale, user-facing and infrastructure systems.

At Google, I focused on building high-impact platforms at scale:
- Designed and launched low-latency, high-QPS forecasting systems supporting hundreds of millions in monthly Google Ads spend
- Led a cross-org metrics standardization effort across 12+ teams, shaping OKRs, headcount planning, and revenue strategy
- Improved ML language-detection accuracy for YouTube Music by incorporating domain-specific metadata, improving international user experience
- Built reliability and diagnostics platforms, including a real-time Knowledge Graph for network troubleshooting and a canary analysis system to catch regressions before launch

This role gave me deep experience operating systems at Google scale, working cross-functionally, and balancing product velocity with reliability.

### Software Engineer @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Jose
Developed Layer 2 Overlay protocols for devices used in the Service provider and Data Center domains.

### Systems Administrator @ Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Administered and maintained the Development Cluster and the IT Infrastructure of the lab.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Juniper Networks
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Pleasanton, CA
Worked on end-to-end feature development for the WLAN R&D team with a focus on RF Management features.


## Education
### MS in Electrical Engineering
UCLA

### Stanford University

### Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology
SSN College of Engineering, Anna University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/divyasudhakar

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Last updated: 2026-04-11