Coinbase has hired Manish Gupta to lead its engineering team as the cryptocurrency exchange reportedly eyes going public. CEO Brian Armstrong said Gupt was hired as there was a need to build “new crypto-native products and services” and its pivot to a “remote-first culture”.
Gupta, a longtime Silicon Valley tech engineer, previously ran ridesharing company Lyft’s backend operations for two years. Before that he spent 16 years at Google Ads.