Maria is the CEO and cofounder at Palona.ai

Prior, Maria was VP of Engineering at Google, VP at Meta AI for Products, VP of Engineering at Instagram., VP at LinkedIn as VP over Talent Solutions (LTS) and Careers, Maria also served as CTO at Tinder, where she built a world-class team of engineers and scaled the app to serve a rapidly growing global user base. Maria also worked as VP of Engineering for Yahoo Mobile and managed teams at Microsoft, Zillow.com and NetIQ Corp. She also founded Alike, a mobile local recommendation app, which was later acquired by Yahoo. She studied CS at Tsinghua University and graduated Eastern Michigan University with a Bachelor and Master's degree.