Stayzilla, an online platform for verified homestays and alternate stays, has hired Pankaj Gupta, who was most recently at Twitter in San Francisco, as Chief Product Officer and President of Technology.
Gupta joined Twitter as an early employee and led the Personalization and Recommendations team. He and his team were behind many of Twitter's successful search, discovery, and other data products and technologies across web and mobile.
"We are delighted to have Pankaj join us at Stayzilla. Pankaj brings with him years of experience leading product and technology for a platform built around a huge community. With Stayzilla's growth in homestays and community-based hosting, we could not have found a better person or time for him to lead our Product and Technology," Yogendra Vasupal, co-founder and CEO of Stayzilla, said in a press release.
Pankaj Gupta added: "I'm excited to be working with Yogi and Stayzilla wherein I can put my passion for innovation and building consumer products together. I look forward to working with a great team on this amazing opportunity."
Gupta founded two startups that were both acquired. He has a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Computer Science where he won the award for the best thesis, and an undergraduate from IIT Delhi where he stood first in the Dept. of Computer Science.
He will be shifting base from San Francisco to join Stayzilla at their Bengaluru office.
