Chirag Mahapatra

Experience

Career

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  Mercor

  Vice President and General Manager · San Francisco Bay Area · 2026 – Present

  2026
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  Mercor

  Head of Applied AI + GM, Code Evals · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – 2026

  2025
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  Mercor

  Head of Platform Engineering · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025

  2025
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  Startups

  Angel Investor · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018 – Present

  2018
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  Blaze AI (YC W22)

  Founder

  Founder · San Francisco, California, United States · 2021 – 2024

  2021
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  Meta

  Engineering Leader · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020 – 2021

  2020
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  Airbnb

  Engineering Leader · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017 – 2020

  2017
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  Airbnb

  Senior ML Engineer @ Trooly (acquired by Airbnb) · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015 – 2017

  2015
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  UC Berkeley College of Engineering

  Graduate Teaching Assistant · San Francisco Bay Area · 2016

  2016
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  A9.com (an Amazon company)

  Software Engineer Intern · Palo Alto, CA · 2014 – 2015

  2014
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  Bring Me Food

  Founder

  Founder · 2012 – 2013

  2012
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  Goldman Sachs

  Summer Analyst · 2012

  2012

Bio

Chirag is a co-founder and CTO of Blaze. Previously, he was an Engineering Manager at Facebook in the Growth org working on problems in privacy, infrastructure and data. Prior to this, he was led the Membership and Authentication Infra teams at Airbnb. He also had stints in the Identity and Risk teams while there solving problems in ML. He joined Airbnb as part of an acquisition of a ML startup, Trooly. Chirag has a graduate degree from UC Berkeley and undergraduate degree from NITK.