As a fractional executive, I empower startups and scaling tech organizations to leapfrog their growth trajectory, helping them achieve remarkable strides in maturity and operational efficiency.

Neo is a mentorship community and communal VC fund that brings together a diverse group of tech veterans to accelerate tomorrow's leaders. I am fortunate to be an LP and community member of this vibrant and radically gender diverse community.

Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of operator LPs. OpCo brings together 200+ of tech’s most exceptional executives from diverse backgrounds to invest in and supercharge the next generation of enterprise tech.

I headed engineering at Discord with a focus on strategically scaling the product and infrastructure behind Discord.

I led the R&D teams for Feed, Sharing, and Content Platform teams at LinkedIn, focused on reimagining the conversation and knowledge sharing experience on LinkedIn.Recognized by Business Insider amongst most powerful female engineers in Tech (https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-powerful-female-engineers-of-2018-2018-4#no-21-prachi-gupta-director-of-engineering-linkedin-19)Previously, led engineering for Messenger, Groups, Identity Engagement and Insights teams at LinkedIn. These include products and frameworks like LinkedIn messaging, real time platform, InMails, Groups, Skill Endorsements, Who Viewed My Profile/Mirror, Profile Recommendations, Year In Review, Site Promotions, Microsites etc.I co-founded various programs at LinkedIn that drove the spirit of innovation forward, such as:* Conceived and piloted LinkedIn's current development model used across all of engineering* Developed features and frameworks that helped increase membership growth by >15%.* LinkedIn labs site* LinkedIn's internal and public hackathons.* Internal and public events promoting and encouraging Women in Technology.* LinkedIn [in]cubator; a program to drive grass roots innovation at Linkedin.

Led the relaunch of the LinkedIn Groups product and helped open and establish LinkedIn's San Francisco office.

Led engineering teams behind several LinkedIn products such as Endorsements, Who Viewed your Profile, Year In Review and LinkedIn Microsites.Co-founded and ran LinkedIn's internal incubation program and helped trademark "[in]cubator" and "eat hack !sleep" for LinkedIn.Originated and organized hackathons around the world to support and encourage young innovators.Co-creator of "DevelopHer" the first women-only hackathon in the Bay Area at the time.

Part of LinkedIn's core engineering team focused on Identity and growth initiatives.As an engineer had the amazing opportunity to write key pieces of LinkedIn's infrastructure during this time, such as LinkedIn's first LinkedIn-On-LinkedIn ads server, Address book cloud re-partitioner and my personal favorite, a proof of concept for distributed development (still used today for development by all of product engineering teams).

I worked on Garmin Connect, which is a web based collaboration platform for extracting, storing and analyzing fitness data captured by Garmin’s fitness devices using the best of breed Web2.0 technologies. My responsibilities and contributions to Connect were varied and touched different parts and aspects of the application. Some examples of my work are Front-end and middle-tier engineering in a seam based application, website performance optimization, debugging and fixing problems in the production environment and leading an effort to make the UI Object Oriented.I developed key infrastructure pieces for the consumer facing app like the user info caching layer and product initiatives such as reports, csv exports etc.

Part of the founding team that productized an internal project into an Enterprise Business Intelligence product.I Worked on various core parts of the product contributing to multiple stages of development life cycle in true start-up style. Requirement analysis, technical specifications, module design, planning and scheduling module development, managing small teams and client training/integrations were some of my direct contributions to the team.

Worked on a reporting software developed on the Windows platform. My key contributions included implementation of a complex multi-tiered user management module and porting the Windows based reporting engine to Java which provided the platform to convert the reporting engine into a full fledged enterprise tool.