Japjit Tulsi Joins StumbleUpon as Vice President of Engineering

SAN FRANCISCO, July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- StumbleUpon, the leading way to find personalized Web and mobile content, today announced that Japjit Tulsi, most recently a director of engineering at Google, has joined the company's executive team as vice president of engineering.

In his new role, Tulsi reports to CEO and co-founder Garrett Camp and oversees all of StumbleUpon's engineering functions including product development, recommendation science and infrastructure. Tulsi started at StumbleUpon on July 5 and replaces Ari Balogh, who left the company. His hire brings the overall employee roster to 25 percent ex-Googlers.

"Japjit brings leadership savvy, superior technical skills and consumer Internet experience, making him a terrific choice to scale and manage our engineering team," said Garrett Camp, StumbleUpon CEO and co-founder. "We believe he will be key to accelerating our growth, delighting our users and achieving our goal of powering discovery worldwide across all media and platforms."

"StumbleUpon is a compelling combination of sophisticated discovery technology, an exceptionally talented team and an active and growing user community," said Tulsi. "It's an exciting time to be joining the company – I am thrilled to be part of bringing the StumbleUpon experience to people around the world."

Tulsi spent the last six years at Google as a director of engineering, where among other things he was responsible for building Google Analytics into one of the world's largest Web analytics systems and recently led the development of YouTube's long-form content efforts.  Prior to Google, Tulsi was group manager of engineering at Microsoft, where for more than five years he led a Web services incubation team, a data mining group and data warehousing. He was also tapped to participate in the company's highly selective executive development program.

About StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that recommends the best Web and mobile content for each user. With more than 15 million users and 1 billion personalized recommendations per month, StumbleUpon is the leading way to discover content and information that informs, delights and surprises. In addition, more than 60,000 marketers have used StumbleUpon's Paid Discovery platform to promote products and services. StumbleUpon is based in San Francisco and backed by some of the same investors behind Google and Facebook. For more information, visit www.StumbleUpon.com.

For additional information contact:
Mike Mayzel, StumbleUpon
[email protected]
(415) 979-1410

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