Balaji Viswanathan Ph.D.

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States20 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in AI-driven software development solutions.
Proven track record in leading innovative tech startups.
Strong background in product management and engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused AI and Robotics expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Product ManagementSoftware EngineeringSoftware Development

Other Skills

RoboticsVoice ProcessingOpen Source SoftwareWindowsWeb developmentSocial Media MarketingProgrammingEntrepreneurTestingEntrepreneurshipSoftware DesignLinuxStart-upsXMLUser Experience

About

I teach machines -- robots, software systems how to think. Besides work, I like writing and I'm also a top writer on Quora.

Experience

Kapi ai

CEO

May 2025 – Present · 11 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

KAPI is an immersive voice-based IDE revolutionizing software development by enabling engineers to build full-stack applications primarily through natural conversation. By harnessing real-time voice processing and multimodal generation, KAPI delivers a transformative development experience.
Problem We Solve
Traditional development workflows are constrained by keyboards, text editors, and syntax-focused coding, forcing developers to translate high-level thinking into low-level implementation. This creates friction between concept and execution, leading to quality issues and inefficient development cycles.
Our Solution
KAPI pioneers "Software Engineering 2.0" through our backwards build methodology - starting with documentation and tests before implementation. This voice-first approach elevates developers from coding syntax to true engineering, focusing on architecture, design, and problem-solving across any device.
Target Audience
We serve serious professional developers with 2+ years of experience, including:
Startup engineers at high-growth companies
Tech entrepreneurs building AI-powered products
Corporate innovators driving AI adoption
Development teams seeking quality and best practices

Artificial Intelligence (AI)RoboticsSoftware DevelopmentProduct Management

Mitra robot

CEO

Sep 2021 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Invento makerspaces pvt ltd

CEO

Jul 2016 – Dec 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Black duck software

Product Manager

May 2014 – May 2016 · 2 yrs · Boston

Black Duck helps the world’s most innovative companies streamline, safeguard, and manage the use of open source software (OSS). Our comprehensive OSS Logistics solutions enable enterprises of every size to gain systematic visibility into and control over how they acquire, approve, scan, monitor, secure, inventory, and deliver open source code.

Product ManagementSoftware DevelopmentOpen Source Software

.406 ventures

Student Fellow

Nov 2012 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Boston Area

Evaluating startup ideas that are attractive for .406 ventures.

Zingfin.com

Co-Founder

Nov 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai, India

Co-Founder & Principal at ZingFin.com. Managing the technology and the overall business process.

Agni innovation labs

Co-Founder

Jan 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai, India

We work with businesses improve their brand presence. This includes blogging help, web development, social media management and corporate identity kits.

Microsoft

Software Design Engineer

Jul 2006 – Nov 2009 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Software Design Engineer in Core Operating System Division, developing the RPC component for Windows.
Software Engineer at Live Labs, Microsoft (Feb 2008-April 2009). Was a part of startup factory and involved in building a search engine, a customer feedback centric social network website and peer to peer file backup service.
In the last 6 months, I worked at Windows Phone team (April 2009 - November 2009). Worked on test development in the games team for the new generation Windows phone 7.

Cougaar software, inc.

Software Design Engineer Intern

May 2005 – Aug 2005 · 3 mos

Worked as an intern in a Defense prototype developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) components. The system involved a utilizing a properietary archiecture to synchornize 1000s of autonomous software agents deployed in the battlefield.

University of maryland baltimore county

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2004 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos

Teaching Assistant for 4 semesters at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
I have taught a lab course for an introductory computer science course, and have assisted in teaching, evaluating homeworks and assignments and holding office hourse for 3 courses - Junior level Data Structures course, Senior level Computer Architecture course and a sophomore level algorithms course.

Software DevelopmentWindowsArtificial Intelligence (AI)