Neeraj Gupta LinkedIn Profile

Contact Neeraj Gupta www.linkedin.com/in/neerajgupta1 CTO. Engineering & Product Leader. Investor. Advisor. (LinkedIn) San Francisco Bay Area www.sift.com (Company) Summary Top Skills Customer focused hands-on technology executive with 25+ years of SaaS distinguished career building engineering and product organizations, Cloud Computing translating business objectives into product strategy, roadmap and Enterprise Software execution plan, and delivering the best-in-class innovative products. Languages Extensive experience scaling and leading cross functional English engineering, product, UX, data, ML, data science, and operations Hindi teams of 300+ engineers / architects / directors / VPs. Excellent leadership skills coupled with strong hands on technical experience with Cloud, Data, Security, Machine Learning, Infrastructure, and Data Science technologies. Founding member of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Open Container Initiative (OCI) open source projects. Deep knowledge of public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms. Core Competencies: • Executive Leadership • Product Vision, Strategy and Roadmap • High Performance Global Teams • Product Innovation • Cloud Services (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) • Machine Learning & Data Science • Scaled Agile Development • Data Governance & Transformation • Technology Acquisition & Integration • Developer Evangelism • Cyber Security • Data Center & Cloud Operations Experience Page 1 of 6

Pindrop CTO June 2024 - Present (6 months) Sift Chief Technology Officer January 2020 - June 2024 (4 years 6 months) San Francisco Bay Area Sift is the market leader in Digital Trust & Safety space, preventing fraud and abuse through industry-leading machine learning technology and a global data network of trillions of events powering tens of thousands of ML models with real time online learning. • Organization Expansion: Scaled engineering, cloud operations, and security teams to a strong 150+ organization (3x in 2 years). Driving technology and product vision, strategy, and roadmap. • Operational Excellence: Transformed cloud infrastructure and operations resulting in 60% cost reduction and industry leading uptime with tens of thousands of API calls per second. • R&D Center: Researched and setup a new R&D center in Eastern Europe from grounds up and scaled it to 50+ engineers in less than 24 months. • Company Acquisitions: Led the technical due diligence, acquisition, and integration of Chargeback and Keyless companies to broaden the product portfolio. • Google Partnership: Leading the collaboration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) R&D team on the next generation AI platform Vertex AI. Served on the GCP Customer Advisory Board. Castlight Health EVP Engineering, Data, and Cloud Operations August 2016 - January 2020 (3 years 6 months) San Francisco Bay Area Castlight Health (NYSE: CSLT) provides enterprise (B2B2C) health and wellness engagement and analytics SaaS platform, making it easy for users to navigate complex healthcare system. • Organization Rebuild: Revamped organization by upgrading talent, realigning teams with business priorities, introducing modern processes, and enforcing product quality and accountability culture. • Platform Modernization: Migrated from legacy technologies to a modern technical stack enabling multiple applications from single code base, including Page 2 of 6

white labeled Anthem application with one of the highest app store ratings and user NPS in healthcare. • Defined and delivered an enterprise grade data and ML platform with one of the largest healthcare data repositories in the industry. • Jiff Acquisition: Integrated engineering teams, products and technologies to deliver unified health navigation platform. Launched 100+ customers on the new product within first year. Apcera SVP Product and Engineering April 2015 - August 2016 (1 year 5 months) San Francisco Bay Area Apcera (acquired by Ericsson) provides a secure, policy driven, multi-cloud platform for cloud native applications, micro-services and legacy applications. • OCI and CNCF Foundations: Played a key role in forming the Open Container Initiative (OCI) and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) by collaborating with ecosystem players. • Enterprise Grade Product: Scaled engineering teams and processes to evolve the product from alpha phase to enterprise grade leading to company acquisition by Ericsson. Appcelerator | Particle Code SVP Product and Engineering May 2010 - April 2015 (5 years) San Francisco Bay Area Appcelerator (acquired by Axway) offers an enterprise mobile SaaS platform that is trusted by over 675,000 developers and 1,400 customers, with 75,000+ mobile applications running on 285+ million devices, with 2 billion cloud API calls every month. Particle Code (acquired by Appcelerator) provided an extensible cross- platform SDK that allowed mobile developers to create native mobile and HTML5 applications from a single code base. • Product Line Expansion: Transformed product portfolio from a single open source product to an enterprise mobile, cloud and analytics platform, scaled product and engineering organizations, defined product strategy and roadmap, introduced new products and built close relationships with key partners, customers and open source developer community. Page 3 of 6

• Technology Acquisitions: Integrated two cloud startups (CocoaFish and Singly) and one analytics startup (Nodeable) to accelerate product roadmap delivery. • As a first engineering hire at Particle Code, built engineering team and processes from ground up, architected key features, and assisted with business development. SpikeSource (acquired by Black Duck Software) Director of Engineering May 2008 - May 2010 (2 years 1 month) SpikeSource, founded by Ray Lane (ex-president Oracle) and funded by Kleiner Perkins, delivered SaaS based enterprise security platform that transformed collaboration between platform vendors and ISVs. As a key management team member, managed global engineering team to build and deliver a highly scalable enterprise SaaS platform. • Solution Factory: Managed a SaaS based enterprise platform to automate ISV stacks builds and testing. This system included a library of over 10,000 open source components and a virtual testing lab based on cloud computing technologies. • Mobile Application Validation: Managed an automated SaaS based mobile application validation platform that provided immediate feedback and targeted guidance to facilitate higher application quality and faster time to market, reducing validation time from several weeks to just a few hours. Oracle Sr. Software Development Manager September 1997 - May 2008 (10 years 9 months) Oracle’s Server Technologies division is responsible for the industry leading database products. Over 10 years, played a strong technical management role leading cross-functional initiatives, building global engineering teams, establishing a new product line, and engaging in close relationships with strategic partners and key customers. Key driver for product strategy and roadmap expanding Data Access product line and increasing Oracle’s database market share. Managed three of Oracle’s top ten downloaded products. Page 4 of 6

• Product Line Expansion: Architected, managed and introduced new products, creating a new market for Oracle and improving customer satisfaction. Delivered on time and within budget. • Offshore Expansion: Expanded US engineering team to India and China to take advantage of large talent pool at better cost structure and for round the clock development. Built strong and empowered teams with local leadership; attracted and retained top talent with minimal attrition. • Strategic Engineering Relationships: Worked closely with strategic partners and key customers helping them build high performance applications with Oracle products. The client list includes Bank of America, Dell, Nokia, AllState, State Farm, Yahoo, Hitachi, NEC and Priceline. • Product Introduction: Introduced Oracle’s first web-tier product on .NET platform, enabling Oracle to compete aggressively with Microsoft on Windows platform. Evangelized this product and presented it frequently on industry tradeshows and forums. Informix Corporation Sr. Software Engineer December 1995 - August 1997 (1 year 9 months) Informix, the 2nd largest database company in 1997, was acquired by IBM in 2001. • Implemented multiple features for ESQL/C and ESQL/COBOL pre-compilers enabling Informix to compete better with Oracle. Softek Software Engineer July 1993 - November 1995 (2 years 5 months) Softek was a pioneer in system software for the rapidly expanding market in India in early 90s. • Developed a data system, used by Indian government, to collect and analyze census data. • Designed and developed C++ Visual Source Code Analyzer. Education University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business MBA, Management · (2008 - 2011) Institute of Engineering and Technology Page 5 of 6

B.S., Computer Science and Engineering · (1989 - 1993) Page 6 of 6