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10 YouTube engineering leaders
These ten current and former YouTube engineering leaders have held engineering roles at YouTube, across areas such as the main app, search, trust and safety, ads, living room, shopping and Creator Studio. A reader can learn how engineering leaders work at YouTube from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Bassem ElKarablieh
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Software Engineering · YouTube
Senior Director of Software Engineering at YouTube since October 2024, a role the profile tags at director level in Engineering and Technical, and former Director of Software Engineering at YouTube (2021–2024). The profile also lists Director of Software Engineering (2020–2021), Senior Staff Engineer (2017–2020) and Staff Software Engineer (2013–2017) at Google.
Emmanuel Saint-Loubert-Bié
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Of Engineering, YouTube Main App · YouTube
Senior Director Of Engineering, YouTube Main App at YouTube since January 2022, a role the profile describes as engineering lead for the YouTube app on Android, iOS, Web/Desktop and Mobile Web. The profile also lists Senior Director of Engineering , YouTube Living Room (2010–2018) and Senior Director of Engineering & Head of Engineering for Chrome OS Software (2018–2021) at Google.
Fatih Boyaci
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · YouTube
Senior Director of Engineering at YouTube since April 2015; the profile says Fatih leads multiple critical areas for YouTube Ads and describes Fatih as an engineering lead at YouTube working on products and applying AI. The profile also lists Software Engineer roles at X, The Moonshot Factory (2013–2015), Google (2012–2013) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2010–2012).
Mathilde Hurand
LinkedInExperience: Director of Software Engineering · YouTube
Director of Software Engineering at YouTube since July 2016, based in Zürich, a role the profile describes as engineering lead for Creator Studio @ Youtube and tags at director level in Engineering and Technical. The profile also lists Senior Software Engineer at Google (2014–2016).
Mehran Bozorgi
LinkedInExperience: Former Director of Engineering · YouTube
Former Director of Engineering at YouTube (2021–2026), a role in which the profile says Mehran led engineering for YouTube Homepage. The profile also lists Senior Staff Software Engineer & Senior Engineering Manager at YouTube (2016–2021) and SVP of Software Engineering at The Walt Disney Company since March 2026.
Pei Cao
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · YouTube
VP of Engineering at YouTube since October 2022, a role the profile describes as leading engineering for YouTube's Trust&Safety, including content safety, protection against platform abuse and safety and responsibility in GenAI features. The profile also lists Distinguished Software Engineer at YouTube since 2019, Software Engineer at Google (2004–2012) and Software Architect at Cisco (1999–2004).
Pras Sarkar
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering, Mobile+web infrastructure · YouTube
Director of Engineering, Mobile+web infrastructure at YouTube since November 2022, a role the profile tags at director level in Engineering and Technical. The profile also lists Head Of Engineering, Onboarding & Compliance at Stripe (2021–2022), Head Of Engineering at Google (2011–2021) and Research Engineer at Yahoo (2007–2011).
Ramona Bobohalma
LinkedInExperience: Director Of Engineering · YouTube
Director Of Engineering at YouTube since May 2022, a role the profile describes as leading the Shopping Viewer Engineering team, and says Ramona has led engineering for YouTube Shopping search since 2020. The profile also lists Senior Software Engineering Manager (2019–2022) and Staff Software Engineer (2008–2019) at YouTube.
Steven Chu
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · YouTube
Senior Director of Engineering at YouTube since July 2021, a role the profile describes as Senior Director of Engineering on YouTube Living Room. The profile also lists Senior Director of Engineering (2019–2021), Director of Engineering (2015–2020) and Senior Staff Software Engineer (2013–2015) at Google.
Ziv Bar-Yossef
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · YouTube
VP of Engineering at YouTube since August 2023, a role the profile describes as responsible for YouTube Search, Knowledge and Learning (280 engineers, 3 sites). The profile also lists VP, Engineering (Consumer Shopping Eng Lead) (2021–2023), VP, Engineering (Search Features Eng Lead) (2019–2021) and Engineering Director (Search Verticals Lead) (2017–2019) at Google.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person to the engineering area behind your question, since app, infrastructure, safety and ads teams face different scale and reliability problems. Check whether the relevant role is current or past before asking how things work at YouTube today.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you organize engineering for one app that runs on phones, the web and televisions?
- 02What does building trust and safety systems look like for a platform with user uploads at very large scale?
- 03How do engineering teams at a large video platform decide where to apply AI first?
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