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10 Reddit engineering leaders
These ten current and former Reddit engineering leaders include Reddit's executive vice president of engineering along with engineering vice presidents and directors who have led ads, core product, growth and client platform teams. Readers can learn how Reddit's engineering teams build and scale its consumer product, ads systems and developer tooling.
Professionals to explore
01—10Amit Puntambekar
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President, Engineering · Reddit, Inc.
Executive Vice President, Engineering at Reddit, Inc. since February 2026, a C-level role per his profile, whose headline reads Chief Technology Officer, Reddit. He was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Atlassian (2023–2026) and Senior Director of Engineering at Meta (2015–2023), and he was Co-founder and VP of Engineering of QuickFire Networks (2014–2015).
Blake Shaw
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Reddit, Inc.
Senior Director of Engineering at Reddit, Inc. since March 2024; his profile headline notes a PhD in Machine Learning. He was Director of Engineering at Instagram (2021–2024), where his profile says he was engineering lead for the Instagram Experience team supporting an org of about 100, and Engineering Manager at Instagram (2019–2021) and Facebook (2016–2019).
Evan Ettinger
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering, Reddit Ads · Reddit, Inc.
VP of Engineering, Reddit Ads at Reddit, Inc. since November 2025; his profile says he leads all of Reddit ads engineering. At Reddit he was also VP of Engineering, Ads Quality and Measurement (2025) and VP of Engineering, Ads Quality (2025), and he was Senior Director of Engineering at Google (2022–2025).
Howard Ekundayo
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Engineering, Growth · Reddit, Inc.
Sr. Director of Engineering, Growth at Reddit, Inc. since November 2025; his profile says he leads Content Ecosystem engineering at Reddit and an international engineering organization focused on Reddit's consumer product. He was a Member of Technical Staff, ChatGPT at OpenAI (2024–2025) and Director of Engineering, Google Search at Google (2022–2024).
KD Bhulani
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Of Engineering · Reddit, Inc.
Senior Director Of Engineering at Reddit, Inc. since April 2018. Other listed roles are Director Of Engineering - Words With Friends (Mobile Client) (2017–2018) and Senior Engineering Manager - Words With Friends (Mobile Client) (2015–2017) at Zynga; the profile says that work included collaborating with the CTO on a vision and roadmap for modernizing the Words With Friends client tech.
Keith Preston
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering, Client Platforms · Reddit, Inc.
Senior Director of Engineering, Client Platforms at Reddit, Inc. since June 2023; his profile describes building software development foundations across Client Platforms, iOS Platform, Android Platform, Web Platform, UI Platform, Experimentation, Quality Engineering and Release teams. He was Engineering Leader - Developer Platforms at Snap Inc. (2016–2023) and a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Apple (2011–2016).
Ken Struys
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering - Developer Experience · Reddit, Inc.
Former Director of Engineering - Developer Experience at Reddit, Inc. (2022–2026); his profile says he was Reddit's first Director of Developer Experience, established the organization, and that DevX became responsible for all AI Dev Tools. He has been Sr Director of Engineering - Developer Experience at Crusoe since June 2026 and was Director Of Engineering - Engineering Effectiveness at Yelp (2016–2020).
Ori Schnaps
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering, Core Product · Reddit, Inc.
Former Vice President of Engineering, Core Product at Reddit, Inc. (2023–2025) and Chief Technology Officer at Fetch since September 2025. He was also Engineering Director at Facebook (2016–2023), Vice President of Engineering at Zocdoc (2012–2016) and Global Head of Technology at Thomson Reuters (2010–2012).
Roelof van Zwol
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Ads Engineering · Reddit, Inc.
Former Vice President of Ads Engineering at Reddit, Inc. (2022–2024) and EVP, Ads Monetization, ML & Data Science at Reddit since 2025; he was also EVP of Ads Monetization at Reddit (2024–2025). At Pinterest he was Head of Monetization Sciences and ML Engineering (2021–2022) and Head of Ads Quality and Advertiser Solutions Engineering (2019–2021).
Trent Strong
LinkedInExperience: Head of Ads Engineering (Senior Director) · Reddit, Inc.
Former Head of Ads Engineering (Senior Director) at Reddit, Inc. (2018–2022) and former Senior Engineering Manager, Ad Serving & Ranking at Reddit (2017–2018). He has been Director of Engineering, Growth at Shopify since 2022 and was Head of Engineering at Projector HQ (2015–2017).
Choose the right perspective
Match the leader's area to your question, since ads, product, growth and platform teams each see different parts of Reddit's technology decisions. Check whether each person's Reddit role is current or ended so you know which period of the engineering organization they can speak to.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Reddit organize engineering teams around its consumer product, ads and platform work?
- 02What goes into Reddit's decisions about building internal developer tools and client platforms?
- 03How does Reddit's ads engineering team balance ad quality, measurement and revenue goals?
About this directory
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