# Saurav Mohapatra > Principal Engineer at Google Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sauravmohapatra I have nearly two and half decades plus hands-on experience in designing / building scalable low latency/high volume real-time distributed applications using C/C++, Python and Java, both as an IC and a manager. I currently work as a Principal Engineer responsible for Analytics, Insights, & Measurement in Google Ads organization. Previously, I worked as a Principal Engineer on Community Foundations (with a focus on Chat) at Twitch (an Amazon company), the world’s leading live streaming platform for games. Before that, I worked at Facebook focused on Ingestion and Vandalism Detection / Integrity Enforcement of community/third-party Geo-spatial data sets (e.g. OpenStreetMaps (OSM) Map Data) as well as Datasets for AR/VR. Prior to that, I worked on Machine Learning APIs and Libraries targeted at real-time online learning and prediction in high QPS servers. I have also worked on Geospatial Indexing, Maps and Location Aware Search Infrastructure for Facebook Infra. I created Loki - FB's scalable Geo-spatial Indexing backend that powers Reverse Geocoding, Ads, Marketplace, Job Search etc. I'm also an award-winning filmmaker and a published author/graphic novelist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurav_Mohapatra ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer @ Google Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States Analytics, Insights, and Measurement, Google Ads / Google Analytics ### Technical Advisor @ Stealth Startup Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Technical Advisor and Consulting Architect for a stealth mode healthcare startup ### Principal Engineer @ Twitch Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Principal Engineer at Twitch/Amazon overseeing Community Foundations, focusing technology/products that powers the experience on the world’s leading live streaming platform for games ### Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | Greater Boston Area My most recent work at Facebook focused on Spatial AR/VR frameworks and Vandalism Detection / Integrity Enforcement of community/third-party spatial data sets. Before that, I worked on Machine Learning APIs and Libraries targeted at real-time online learning and prediction in high QPS servers. I was one of the co-authors of the Spiral Real-time Machine Learning systems for Server Automation: https://code.fb.com/data-infrastructure/spiral-self-tuning-services-via-real-time-machine-learning/ Prior to that I have worked in Geospatial Indexing, Maps and Location Aware Search Infrastructure for Facebook Infra. I created Loki - FB's scalable Geospatial Indexing backend that powers Reverse Geocoding, Ads, Marketplace, Job Search etc. Worked on Facebook Building 8 project that allows people to hear through their skin. https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/19/15361094/facebook-hear-with-skin-technology-regina-dugan ### Principal Architect @ Kaseya Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Greater Boston Area As Principal Architect, Platform, my responsibilities included design and development of an IT Managment PaaS that combines an endpoint fabric and cloud services to securely manages presence and bi-directional communication with millions of managed devices, a multi-tenant cloud compute platform for deploying IT monitoring and management related workflows (leveraging Kafka, Storm and Hadoop) via JavaScript recipes (a la IFTTT) that respond to incoming sensor data from the managed devices. ### Architect @ Salesforce Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area (Salesforce acquired Dimdim, a startup I had cofounded, in 2011) As an Architect, I was responsible for design and development of a) real-time collaboration features like chat, A/V and Desktop Sharing for Chatter, b) a multitenant cross data center distributed file storage system and c) an external content integration framework that used WebSocket connections to extend Salesforce.com features to Content Management systems deployed inside customer private cloud behind customer firewall and proxy. ### Co-Founder and Director of Technology @ Dimdim Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 | Greater Boston Area (Acquired by Salesforce.com in 2011) I was a co-founder of Dimdim.com, a real-time browser based web conference startup that serviced 7 million users. As director of technology, I implemented and oversaw the entire backend infrastructure for the SaaS web conference experience including Desktop Sharing, Chat and Document Sharing. Among other things, I designed and implemented a recording and playback system for online meetings that multiplexed heterogenous content sync'd to a single timeline and made available as a single A/V file, purely on the server side (no client plugin required) and a C++ based RTMP server that powered the audio/video conferencing. ### Senior Software Engineer @ CA Technologies Jan 2000 – Jan 2006 ### Associate Software Engineer @ CA TCG Software Pvt. Ltd Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 ## Education ### Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mohaps --- Source: https://flows.cv/sauravmohapatra JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sauravmohapatra/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12