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Anand M.

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Senior Director of Engineering at Duolingo
📍 United States

Anand is a Senior Director of Engineering at Duolingo with over 15 years of experience building high-impact teams at companies like Twitter, Reddit, and Microsoft. He specializes in scaling products, having led initiatives in creator monetization and growing platforms like PowerBI to millions of users. Anand holds an MS from Purdue University.

Outside of work, Anand is passionate about mentorship and social impact. He mentors engineering leaders through the Plato platform and has volunteered in Uganda with the MySkills4Afrika program, where he taught local startups how to leverage data analytics tools for business growth. His academic research focused on mobile health technology.

Unique Fact: Anand volunteered to travel to Uganda to personally teach startups how to use Power BI for their businesses.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Senior Director of Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
United States
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Scaling Engineering Teams
He has a proven history of growing and managing large engineering organizations, including a team of over 130 at Twitter, and actively mentors other leaders on the topic.
Hands-on Leadership
He believes engineering leaders should be able to operate at any level, empathize with engineers, and dive into technical details, reflecting a core value he embraces at Duolingo.
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Career

Work history

9-2024
Senior Director of Engineering
Duolingo
10-2022 - 1-2023
Director of Engineering
Twitter
6-2022 - 10-2022
Director Of Engineering
Twitter
8-2021 - 5-2022
Director Of Engineering
Twitter
7-2021 - 12-2022
Advisor
Impira
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What I learned in my first year as an engineering director at Duolingo. Featured in Duolingo Engineering Blog
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Education
2006 - 2008
MS
Purdue University
2015 - 2015
Engineering Leadership for Mid-Career Professionals
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2001 - 2005
BE
PSG College of Technology
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