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Basil Shikin
ROLE FORMER CTOMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN AUGUST 14, 2026
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Basil Shikin is a longtime engineering leader at AppLovin Corporation who currently serves as Chief Technology Officer, a role he has held since 2020 after being promoted from Vice President of Engineering. He is set to transition into the role of Distinguished Engineer on July 1, 2026, with Giovanni Ge succeeding him as CTO. As one of AppLovin's early hires, Shikin led development of the company's secure and highly scalable distributed systems and its broader technology stack, supporting a platform that grew to serve hundreds of millions of daily active users.
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mention·Sourcery Newsletter·AUGUST 14, 2026
“Shikin personally wrote around 60% of the company's code before Ge arrived.”
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