Giovanni "Gio" Ge
Giovanni Ge is Chief Technology Officer of AppLovin, having assumed the role in July 2026 after previously serving as the company's Chief Product and Engineering Officer. He joined AppLovin in November 2022 and led the development of Axon 2.0, the company's AI-powered recommendation engine and advertising platform. Prior to AppLovin, he held machine learning and engineering roles at Meta, Uber, and BlackRock, and holds a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics from SISSA.
“CTO of AppLovin; joined November 2022 from big tech”
Source→“Shikin personally wrote around 60% of the company's code before Ge arrived.”
Source→“Architect of Axon 2; joined after a 30% stock drop and built the training infrastructure for the new model partly on a transatlantic flight”
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