Coinbase hires Manish Gupta as engineering head

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.