Serkan Piantino

Serkan Piantino, born in 1982, is an American computer scientist, software engineer, technology executive and entrepreneur. He grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in computer science in 2004. After working as a software engineer at Bridgewater Associates, he joined Facebook in 2007 as lead engineer for News Feed, where he developed EdgeRank, the algorithm that decided which content users saw from their friends. In 2011 he led the development of Timeline, the redesign of user profile pages, and in 2012 he moved to New York to oversee Facebook's engineering office there. In 2013 he co-founded Facebook AI Research and worked with Yann LeCun on Big Sur, a GPU-powered server system for AI research that was open-sourced in 2015. He left Facebook in 2016 and founded Spell, a platform giving developers access to AI processing hardware as a cloud service. Reddit acquired Spell in 2022 and he joined Reddit as vice president of Foundational Product.