Kiran P.

VP of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States20 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led global engineering and AI efforts at Ambient.ai.
Built backend services for millions at Facebook.
Developed cloud services at Oracle from the ground up.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI engineering leader with extensive experience in cloud and product management.

Contact

kiran.palan@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Product ManagementLeadership

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)CCloudCloud ComputingComputer VisionDevice DriversDistributed SystemsExecutive LeadershipGoIEEE 802.11JavaLarge Language Models (LLM)LinuxManagement

About

• Experience building SaaS Products and Platforms from concept to scaled up multi product line offerings • Build, Scale and Lead Engineering, ML/AI and product organizations across the globe

Experience

Authmind

Advisor

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Ambient.ai

Vice President of Engineering

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs · Redwood City, California, United States

Leading Global Engineering and AI Efforts (Product, Platform and AI/Machine Perception).
Ambient.ai is a top YC company backed by a16z and other notable investors and we are solving some exciting problems. Check us out at https://ambient.ai
Hiring across multiple levels for Applied Research Scientists, Product and Platform.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Executive LeadershipComputer VisionProduct ManagementLarge Language Models (LLM)Product Development

Facebook

Leadership, Facebook Infra

Sep 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Menlo Park, CA · On-site

Built an organization that
Ships backend services to millions of machines and processes hundreds of terabytes per day.
Generate realtime insights into everything going in and out of Facebook and between every service.
Helped solve problems in spaces like User Privacy, Security, Auto DDoS Detection/Mitigation, Service Graph etc..
Other work includes Mentoring leaders across the company etc..

Artificial Intelligence (AI)LeadershipCloud Computing

Oracle

Vice President of Engineering

May 2013 – Sep 2018 · 5 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Led Product and Engineering efforts for defining, delivering and managing Virtual Network (VPC, Security Groups, Elastic IP, DNS, VPN etc..) and Elastic Block Storage Services (EBS) in Oracle Public Cloud.
Built an organization ground up organically that was responsible for Interfaces, API, Backend Distributed Systems, Network/Storage Virtualization, Product Metrics/Data platform.
Hired externally and groomed leaders internally (Multiple Directors, Architects and Managers) to support the effort.

LeadershipExecutive LeadershipProduct ManagementCloud Computing

Nimbula (acquired by oracle)

Consulting Member Of Technical Staff

Sep 2010 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Santa Clara, CA

Amongst the early team members that helped deliver beta, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 version of the product.
Held multiple positions over the course of the acquisition by Oracle: Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Product Manager etc..
Proposed, Architected and Led multiple initiatives for the company and the product.
Product Management, Architecture, User Stories, PRDs, APIs, Roadmaps/Strategy, Executive Product Briefs, Organized Hackathons, Product Metrics/Analytics

Apple

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2009 – Oct 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Cupertino, CA

Worked on software features for iOS 4.0, Snow Leopard and Lion

Palm

Sr. Software Engineer

Jul 2005 – Jan 2009 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

Wore many hats here. Worked on the complete stack from drivers and middleware to security and UI to systems level work on power and performance.
Delivered WebOS 1.0 and next generation line of products (Pre &Pixi)
Other work included- R&D VoIP work, Foleo, Treo line of products and Palm TX