Ashish Gupta is a Senior Director of Engineering at Google. Colleagues describe him as "I worked with Ashish for a little over a year in my role as the payment fraud point of contact for the Mountain View AdWords Risk Operations team. I was always continually impressed with not only his technical expertise but also his leadership skills and willingness to increase collaboration between the Risk Operations and Risk Engineering teams. He was very communicative with the Ops analysts, always diligent about informing of any new engineering updates and answering follow-up questions. Additionally, he was a great ear from the Risk Engineering team and regularly incorporated feedback and input from Ops analysts in his work. We will miss him on the team but thanks to his great training of the new engineers I know we are in good hands with his successors. Thank you Ashish!" and "Ashish was the Tech Lead for AdWords paymentfraud and mentored me on the team. He worked closely with me to identify projects, help with design decisions, and help me prioritize issues that fall on my plate. He is extremely knowledgeable and is the first person who I go to for any questions that I may have. In addition, he served as the go-to person for all paymentfraud related issues for not just myself, but also for other members of the team as well as coworkers on other teams (operations, billing, ads, etc.). When an urgent issue arose, we would often turn to Ashish to help solve the problem, with which he is able to quickly assess and implement a solution. He made a great impact in growing my abilities as a software engineer and is very fun and easy to work with."