Nikhil Kuruvelil

About Nikhil Kuruvelil

Seasoned technical professional with 11+ years in Technical Program Management and 7 years in Development. As Senior TPM at Meta, I have overseen ML models processing billions of accounts for analytics, integrity, and growth. Modernized the contact/identity stack, established capacity practices, and shipped cross-app unification efforts. Driven privacy risk certifications, enhancing day-zero latency, and leveraging LLMs and multilingual workflows to improve labeling quality and throughput. Skilled in collaborating across engineering, product, data, and privacy/legal teams to translate objectives into actionable roadmaps, remove obstacles, and ensure timely launches. Strong process improvement skills, consistently optimizing workflows and driving operational excellence. Extensive experience managing end-to-end project cycles—from analysis and design to architecture, development, and deployment. Skilled at streamlining operations, making strategic decisions, and maintaining schedules to maximize business revenue.

Experience

1. Senior Product Technical Program Management

   Meta

   Jan 2022 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

   Led end-to-end development of Meta’s human clustering ML model, ensuring accurate user counts for earnings reporting, integrity, and growth use cases; enabled data-driven decisions, regulatory compliance, and platform trust through collaboration with data science, engineering, and legal teams- Spearheaded the modernization of the multi-app contacts upload platform; built a unified social graph, saving $11M, increasing upload success rate from 63% to 90%, and onboarding over five customers- Managed multi-team privacy risk and certification efforts, partnered with legal to mitigate nine-figure regulatory exposures across multiple risk programs- Established organization-wide SEV/incident governance, postmortems, success metrics, and automated detection (+30%), ensuring 100% on-time reviews for transparent impact reporting- Led multi-organization Day-0 user contact upload optimization by proposing on-device contact ranking; reduced upload latency and user churn by 50%, significantly improving retention for Facebook- Forged a strategic partnership between teams across organizations to scale labeling operations across 13 languages, resolving cost challenges with LLM-assisted translations; achieved 55% budget reduction, expanded dataset coverage from 60% to 80% MAU, and exceeded 95% label consistency for multiple languages, ensuring high launch readiness for Facebook and Instagram- Led and optimized cross-organization capacity management, implemented bring-your-own resource allocation, resolved GPU and compute bottlenecks, and addressed quota constraints—saving $10M, safeguarding $141M in potential revenue, and achieving net-zero expenses during Meta’s “Year of Efficiency.\"- Managed iOS policy changes with mitigation strategies and experiments, maintaining key conversion metrics- Defined team mission, vision, and strategy; developed and presented multi-year, multi-team roadmaps to leadership; mentored TPMs and led organization-wide learning initiatives.

Education

• S I W S College of Commerce and Economics and Smt Thirumalai College of Science Plot No 337 Sewree Wadala Estate Mumbai 400 031

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  2000 — 2003

• Mumbai Educational Trust, MET League of Colleges

  Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Science

  2004 — 2007

• Saint Francis D'Assisi High School

  SSC

  1986 — 1998

• Wilson College Chowpatty Mumbai 400 007

  HSC, Science

  1998 — 2000

Skills

• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Java
• Core Java
• Leadership
• Agile Methodologies
• Spring
• Jdbc
• Javascript
• Jmeter
• Project Management Tools
• Amadeus Gds
• Jprofiler
• Jsp
• Java Database Connectivity (Jdbc)
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Spring Framework
• Sql
• Scrum
• Javaserver Pages (Jsp)
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Eclipse
• Xml
• Play Framework
• Product Requirements
• Travel Technology
• Web Services