# Navdeep Singh

> Navdeep Singh is a Principal Technical Program Manager at Meta and the founder of AwardHack, a rewards toolkit with 200k+ monthly visitors. He describes himself as a builder first. His research on distributed systems and astronomy software has 346 citations.

Last updated: 2026-11-12

## At a glance

- Name: Navdeep Singh (handle: navsing)
- Current role: Principal Technical Program Manager at Meta (since 2021)
- Company: Founder of [AwardHack](https://awardhack.com), "The operating system for your rewards"
- AwardHack traffic: 219,885 unique visitors in October 2026 (Cloudflare, monthly sum of daily unique visitors), up 4.9× since December 2025
- Research: 346 citations ([Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IewhivsAAAAJ&hl=en))
- Contact: contact@navsing.com
- Website: https://www.navsing.com

## Work

- **Principal Technical Program Manager, Meta** (2021–present): Technical strategy and execution across Facebook Creators and Publishers, Creator Monetization, Marketplace, Dating, Gaming and Events.
- **Founder, AwardHack** (Present): A free toolkit that finds the cheapest ways to fly on miles, recommends which credit card to get next, and reminds you before credits expire.
- **Staff Technical Program Manager, Amazon** (2019–2021): Owned tech readiness for global events like Prime Day and Black Friday, tuning 200+ services behind Amazon.com.
- **Software Engineer, Audible** (2018): Built the content and publishing tools creators use to ship audiobooks.
- **Chief Programmer, NOIRLab & NASA** (2017): Worked with astronomers on ANTARES and LSST software for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

## AwardHack

AwardHack is a free rewards toolkit that finds the cheapest ways to fly on miles, recommends which credit card to get next, and reminds you before credits and certificates expire, all without bank logins.

- 40+ tools
- 30+ award programs priced
- 230+ credit cards in 4 countries

## Research

In his words: "I've researched networks meant to survive the deep ocean, reimagined caching for a world where home routers have large storage, and helped design systems that scan the night sky for rare cosmic events in real time. My work lives where distributed systems meet physics: bandwidth is scarce, latency is brutal, and sometimes the dataset is the universe."

## Press

On AwardHack:
- [Points Miles and Bling](https://pointsmilesandbling.com/favorite-travel-tools/)
- [Kosher Trippers](https://koshertrippers.com/2026/05/award-tools-for-points-miles/)
- [Wayfaren](https://wayfaren.com/chase-sapphire-reserve-hotel-credit-stack-score-a-basically-free-luxury-stay-in-2026/)
- [AwardFares](https://awardfares.com/blog/awardhacker/) (partner)

On NFTs at Meta:
- [Forbes](https://www.forbesindia.com/article/crypto-made-easy/meta-rolls-out-nft-support-on-instagram-to-100-countries/78795/1)
- [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/30/facebook-testing-nfts-select-creators-us/)
- [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2022/07/01/facebook-nft-integrations-meta-testing)
- [Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-confirms-nft-rollout-across-150814439.html)
- [The Economic Times](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/facebook-starts-testing-nfts-with-select-creators/articleshow/92590231.cms)
- [The Hindu](https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/facebook-users-could-soon-experience-nfts-on-the-platform/article65588727.ece)
- [Outlook India](https://www.outlookindia.com/business/facebook-testing-nft-collectibles-page-with-us-creators-bitcoin-rises-news-206159)

On ANTARES at NOIRLab:
- [Stanford University](https://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C131113.1/papers/matheson.pdf)
- [NASA & Harvard ADS](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021AAS...23742302M/abstract)
- [Caltech](http://sites.astro.caltech.edu/ztf/csac/Presentations/ANTARES-ZTF2.pdf)
- [Cherenkov Telescope Array](https://www.cta-observatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Narayan_CTA_20210623-compressed.pdf)
- [LSST Corporation](https://www.lsstcorporation.org/catalyst-fellowship/content/nsfs-noir-lab)
- [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2013-12-rarest-rare-southern.html)
- [Arizona Daily Star](https://tucson.com/news/science/anything-you-can-imagine-happening-in-our-vast-universe-already-has/article_ee32f7d4-e8d2-5363-99ad-fdf8472484ef.html)

## Frequently asked questions

### Who is Navdeep Singh?

Navdeep Singh is a Principal Technical Program Manager at Meta and the founder of AwardHack, a rewards toolkit with 200k+ monthly visitors. Before Meta he was a Staff Technical Program Manager at Amazon, a software engineer at Audible, and chief programmer on astronomy software with NOIRLab and NASA. His research has 346 citations on Google Scholar.

### What does Navdeep Singh do at Meta?

He is a Principal Technical Program Manager, driving technical strategy and execution across Facebook Creators and Publishers, Creator Monetization, Marketplace, Dating, Gaming and Events. He also worked on bringing NFTs to Facebook and Instagram.

### What is AwardHack?

AwardHack is a free rewards toolkit that finds the cheapest ways to fly on miles, recommends which credit card to get next, and reminds you before credits and certificates expire, all without bank logins. Navdeep founded it, and it now gets 200k+ unique visitors a month.

### What is Navdeep Singh's research about?

Distributed systems under hard physical constraints: underwater networks, caching on home routers with large storage, and ANTARES, a real-time alert broker that scans the night sky for rare cosmic events for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. It has 346 citations on Google Scholar.

### How can I contact Navdeep Singh?

Email contact@navsing.com, or reach him on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/navsing) or X (@navsing_).

## Talk to Navdeep about

- Building AI-native products
- Award travel and credit card rewards
- Technical accomplishments for EB-1A
- Applying research to real-world systems

## Links

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/navsing/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/navsing_)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/navsing)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IewhivsAAAAJ&hl=en)
- [AwardHack](https://awardhack.com)