Tom Stocky

Tom Stocky is an American technology executive. He leads the learning platform team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, overseeing engineering, product, and design.[1] One of his team's key projects supports Summit Public Schools in developing the Summit Learning Platform, a free online tool that helps students set and track goals, learn content at their own pace, and complete deeper learning projects.[2][3] The Summit Learning Program supports more than 380 schools, reaching more than 72,000 students across 38 states.[4] Stocky also serves on the board of Teach For America Bay Area.[5]

Tom Stocky
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
OccupationHead of Learning Platform, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Known forFacebook Search, Google App Engine, Google Flights

Stocky was previously Vice President of Search at Facebook,[6] where he grew Facebook Search to more than 2 billion searches per day.[7] He and Lars Rasmussen led the team who built Facebook Graph Search, a semantic search engine for the social network,[8][9] and Stocky then led the development of keyword search over the trillions of posts on Facebook.[10] Stocky and Rasmussen were included on Business Insider's list of The 100 Biggest Stars In Silicon Valley.[11] Stocky also started Facebook's language technology team, which developed an AI-powered translation engine for Facebook posts that completes 4.5 billion automatic translations per day across 44 languages.[12][13][14]

While at Facebook, Stocky was one of its first male executives to take the full four-month paternity leave they offered.[15] He wrote a post about his experience that went viral,[16][17] and Mark Zuckerberg later took a two-month paternity leave.[18] Stocky spoke about the importance of companies providing equal parental leave to men and women, and Facebook expanded its policy to give all employees four months of leave, regardless of gender or location.[19]

Prior to Facebook, Stocky was a director of product management at Google. At Google, he helped start the developer products team and was part of the founding team for Google App Engine, which laid the foundation for the Google Cloud Platform. He later led teams working on Google search, commerce, and travel products.[1]

References
  1. Tom Stocky at Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  2. "CZI Takes Over Building Summit Learning Platform". EdSurge. 2017-03-13.
  3. "The Summit Learning Platform". Summit Public Schools. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  4. "The Summit Learning Program Today and Tomorrow, A Message from Summit Public Schools CEO Diane Tavenner". Summit Public Schools. 2018-10-12.
  5. "Board of Directors - TFA - Bay Area". Teach For America. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  6. "Tom Stocky: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
  7. "Facebook sees 2 billion searches per day, but it's attacking Twitter not Google". TechCrunch. 2016-07-27.
  8. "Facebook's Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: The Inside Story of Graph Search". Wired. 2013-01-15.
  9. "Here Is The Ex-Googler Dream Team That Led Facebook's New Graph Search Tool". TechCrunch. 2013-01-15.
  10. "Facebook Expands Search To All 2 Trillion Posts, Surfacing Public Real-Time News". TechCrunch. 2015-10-22.
  11. "The Silicon Valley 100". Business Insider. 2013-02-12.
  12. "Kissing Language Barriers Goodbye". Smithsonian. 2014-03-28.
  13. "Soon Facebook Will Instantly Translate Your Posts Into 44 Languages". Wired. 2016-07-01.
  14. "Facebook's translations are now powered completely by AI". The Verge. 2017-08-04.
  15. "Paternity Leave: The Rewards and the Remaining Stigma". The New York Times. 7 November 2014.
  16. "Facebook Employee Writes About What He Learned on Paternity Leave". Jezebel. 8 July 2013.
  17. "Stay-at-Home Dad Shunned by Playground Moms". Good Morning America. 10 July 2013. ABC. transcript.
  18. "How To Get Dads To Take Parental Leave? Seeing Other Dads Do It". Morning Edition. 8 February 2016. NPR. transcript.
  19. "Facebook introduces four-month parental leave for all employees". The Guardian. 27 November 2015.
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