Jan 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

• Headed the AI team Ola Krutrim (part of the Ola Group of companies) from its very inception, with responsibility for:
• Pretraining, Fine-tuning and deploying LLMs
• Agentic Platform to support Gen AI business applications
• Formulating and delivering AI strategy
• Inference optimization for efficient throughput/latency
• Bringing rigor to AI engineering processes
• Critical hiring

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr

• Led a 500-person, world-wide engineering org tasked with delivering all Rippling products.
• Rippling lets you easily manage your employees’ payroll, benefits, expenses, devices, apps & more—in one place.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2021 · 12 yrs · Palo Alto, CA

• Deep learning, AI and computer vision for search solutions at Amazon scale
• Led engineering and product to deliver next-gen shopping applications for Amazon
• StyleSnap for discovering fashion and home decor using a photo
• Augmented Reality for visualizing furniture and other decor in your home before you buy
• Camera Search for finding 100s of millions of products
• Computer vision solutions for Amazon devices

Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 · 3 yrs

• Venture-funded (by NEA) computer vision and mobile technology start-up, acquired by Amazon in June 2009. SnapTell’s pioneering visual search solutions for iPhone and Android mobile devices won customer, industry, and academic acclaim.
• SnapTell's mobile app was a consumer-facing visual search solution with the capability to recognize millions of products (featured in an Apple iPhone commercial: https://youtu.be/5TGQtk1iAQY?t=8 )
• SnapTell's advertising platform (Snap.Send.Get) was a very successful and pioneering idea for delivering on-demand content and mobile advertising to the mobile customer.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

• Vialto was acquired by Cisco into its Voice Technology Group. As the CTO of Vialto, my charter was to drive the integration of Vialto products into Cisco product lines.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 · 4 yrs

• As CTO, drove the architecture, design and implementation of Vialto’s suite of speech-powered applications for delivering enterprise information to the mobile user.
• As Co-Founder, was responsible for the technical strategy and raising VC funding.

Jan 1996 – Jan 1999 · 3 yrs

• Founding team member. Architected and wrote large amounts of code for several major kernel enhancements for TimesTen's high-performance, fully transactional, main-memory database system.