Hira Dangol — CTO
I specialize in the industrialization of AI—bridging the gap between frontier research and high-stakes, enterprise-grade production. With 20+ years of experience, I lead the "Five-Nines" reliability, capital allocation, and unit economics required to scale AI across global infrastructure. Strategic Scale & Impact: • Infrastructure P&L: Directed a $500M+ infrastructure product portfolio, managing the strategic roadmap and investment for mission-critical enterprise systems. • Organizational Architecture: Led a cross-functional ecosystem of 240+ professionals, orchestrating complex technical delivery across Global Business Units. • Massive Throughput: Engineered and scaled platforms serving 230k+ internal stakeholders and millions of external consumers. Published Authority & Thought Leadership: • Contributing Author: Shipping Machine Learning Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2026). The industry handbook for building and scaling production-grade ML. • Co-Author: Enterprise AI CXO Playbook. A strategic manifesto for board members and investors on AI transformation. • Recognition: 2× President’s Service Award (White House); Featured by Nasdaq at Times Square; Global Panel Member, MIT Technology Review; Advisory Council Board, Harvard Business Review ; Advisory to top tier VC funds and emerging companies and CEOs. I thrive at the intersection of disruptive innovation and operational rigor—building the future of compute for the world’s most ambitious platforms (Google, AWS, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Tier-1 AI Labs).
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI infrastructure and transformation for enterprise-scale applications.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Experience: 20 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence (ai)
- Ai Strategy
Career Highlights
- 20+ years of experience in AI industrialization.
- Led $500M+ infrastructure product portfolio.
- Recognized thought leader in AI and machine learning.
Work Experience
Analog Devices
Enterprise AI Leadership, Head of AI Enablement (2 yrs 3 mos)
Harvard University
Guest Lecturer (2 yrs 3 mos)
Cloud Security Alliance
AI CxO Advisory Council & Board (2 yrs 3 mos)
Centific
GenAI Advisory Board (2 yrs 3 mos)
Evanta, a Gartner Company
CIO/CDAO Governing Body Member (3 yrs 3 mos)
AI Infrastructure Alliance
Member of Advisory Board (2 yrs)
Bank of America
Vice President, AI/ML and Automation Platform (3 yrs)
Enterprise Leader, Asian Leadership Network (ALN) (2 yrs)
Vice President, Platform & Engineering (5 yrs)
Technology Architecture and Engineering (A&E) (4 yrs)
Harvard Business Review
Advisory Council Member (6 yrs)
VLAB
Founders Series Executive Chair & Advisory (13 yrs)
Cisco
POC Engineer (0 mo)
AT&T
Design & Implementation Engineer/PM (3 yrs)
InfoCom
System Design and Communcation Engineer (5 mos)
Manpower
Technology Team Lead (1 yr)
SeaGate
Head of Department, ICT (6 mos)
KPAS
Chief Research Coordinator (2 yrs)
Education
Stanford LEAD at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
MS&E graduate at Stanford University
Visiting AI & Machine Learning Fellow - MIT Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Minnesota School of Business at Globe University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Kathmandu Engineering College
