Vishalaksh Aggarwal — Co-Founder

I am a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 9+ years of experience building and scaling search, embedding, and AI systems in production, including 7 years at Apple and IBM Research, and 2 years as a startup founder. At Apple, I have led multiple 0→1 initiatives across Apple Music, including large-scale semantic search, personalization, multilingual retrieval, cold-start systems, and foundation embedding models used across agentic search, Siri recall, and offline intelligence pipelines. My work has driven record-setting conversion uplifts and enabled faster org-wide model deployment. I specialize in designing foundation-level ML platforms rather than one-off models—owning the full lifecycle from research and data strategy to training infrastructure, evaluation, and production reliability at scale. Prior to Apple, I led search and recommendations at magicpin and co-founded a consumer tech startup, where I owned product, engineering, and team building end-to-end. I started my career at IBM Research, contributing patents and peer-reviewed publications. I enjoy working at the intersection of deep technical problems and product impact, and I’m especially interested in roles that value long-term technical vision, system ownership, and mentoring strong engineers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Consumer Tech expert with a strong focus on Machine Learning and Product Development.

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

Experience: 11 yrs 9 mos