Esha Shukla

Esha Shukla is a distinguished Senior Product Management professional with over a decade of training and experience building social technology products. Currently, she leads the effort to help billions of users engage in thriving groups and communities on WhatsApp. Before this, she led the effort at Facebook App to build digital safety and privacy tools for women in emerging markets and at-risk populations. Prior to that, she led the online communities product portfolio at Meetup, notably introducing a reputation system to provide more clarity on the quality of meetup events and helped organizers quickly schedule events through a simplified and redesigned event schedule flow which included templates.

Esha earned her Bachelor of Computer Engineering from the D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering (University of Mumbai). After graduating, she went on to attend Duke University where she earned her Master's in Engineering Management.

According to her colleagues, there is a lot to learn when working alongside Esha. She is excellent at coming up with creative solutions to tough problems. She is a great collaborator whether it be within her own team, with management, or across the organization. She pushes everyone around her to build better by bringing people together and inspiring them with her knowledge and skills.

She's invested in sharing her insights, learnings, and advice and wants to help other PMs build social products more responsibly keeping users' privacy and safety top of mind.