Chirag Mahapatra
About Chirag Mahapatra
My interests lie in uncovering insights from large scale data and using statistical analysis for decision making. I typically use methods from multiple disciplines to perform analysis and extract results which can be used for decision making in academic and corporate settings. In the past, I have performed research on accounting, finance, social networks, marketplaces and web3 / cryptocurrencies. I am currently building Blaze, growth and marketing automation tool for web3, AI, and dev tools projects. We drive user acquisition and retention by extracting potential users from Twitter, Discord and Linkedin and enriching the data with blockchain data and software contributions. We have solutions across the entire marketing funnel to help you scale your audience. Our solutions typically involve targeting and personalization using machine learning and large scale data analytics. At Blaze, I have built infrastructure to scale indexing 100s of millions of profiles across top platforms and billions of posts. Previously, I led large engineering teams at high growth companies such as Facebook and Airbnb with a strong track record for solving complex problems and top ratings. Some of my accomplishments include: - Driving strategy and execution to track and prevent data flow of PII to key ML algorithms in Meta. This was key to Facebook continuing to operate in several large European countries. - Drive a cross company initiative to unify accounts infrastructure across Facebook and WhatsApp. This project involved over 100+ Meta employees across many teams. - Lead the team to implement more secure and privacy centric authentication mechanisms at Airbnb such as Phone Verification and Signup with Apple. This led to improvement in GBV by slightly over $100M. - Reduce the false positives of Airbnb's safety incident detection model leading to a better user experience. My teams have tackled complex challenges in distributed systems, machine learning and AI in domains such as Growth and Integrity and delivered high quality software in extremely tight deadlines.