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Jerry Krikheli

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Senior Director Of Engineering at Meta
📍 Los Angeles, California, United States

Jerry Krikheli is a Senior Director of Engineering at Meta, leading the Payments Platform. His career includes roles as VP at Houzz and Director at Google, with deep expertise in commerce, ad technology, and cloud platforms. A UCLA graduate, colleagues describe him as "hard working, dependable, talented and bright. "

Jerry holds a prestigious Google Founders Award for his work on display ad targeting systems and has co-authored multiple patents related to advertising technology.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Senior Director Of Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Payments Platforms
Currently leads the Payments Platform engineering at Meta, focusing on financial technologies, checkout, creator monetization, and digital goods.
E-commerce Experiences
He has extensive experience developing seller onboarding systems and in-app shop and purchase experiences for platforms like Instagram and Facebook.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Senior Director Of Engineering
Meta
4-2021 - 6-2025
Senior Director of Engineering
Meta
7-2016 - 4-2021
VP Engineering
Houzz
4-2003 - 6-2016
Director of Engineering
Google
6-2000 - 4-2003
Software Engineer
Applied Semantics
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Education
2005 - 2009
Master of Science - MS
UCLA
1998 - 2003
Bachelor of Science - BS
UCLA
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