Arpit Goel

Founder

San Francisco, California, United States13 yrs 11 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Founded Gamma, acquired by Palo Alto Networks.
Led 3x business growth in CASB at Palo Alto Networks.
Strategic advisor to early-stage startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with a strong background in AI and data-driven solutions.

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AlgorithmsC++Machine LearningGame TheoryData AnalyticsPythonJavaJavaScriptDjangoMySQLData StructuresProgrammingCHTML 5CSS3

About

Arpit Goel currently acts as a strategic advisor, angel investor, operator and board member to entrepreneurs in the early stages of their startup journey. In late 2018, Arpit founded Gamma, a pioneering ML-powered cloud data security company which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks within three years in 2021 and merged with their Next-Gen CASB business unit. Arpit served in an integral leadership role to transform the business unit leading to over 3x business growth within 18 months. Arpit received a BS in Computer Science from IIT Delhi and a PhD from Stanford University.

Experience

13 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

7 mos

Current Experience

Stealth

Founder, CEO

Oct 2025 – Present · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Changing how money moves across the globe

Various

Company Builder, Startup Advisor & Angel Investor

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Strategic advisor, angel investor, operator and board member, providing expertise on market entry, product market fit, and go-to-market strategy to entrepreneurs in the very early phases of their startup journey. Emphasizes a practical entrepreneurial approach and leverages operational expertise to insert process, structure, and frameworks that address speed bumps and pitfalls faced by solo and first time founders.

Palo alto networks

Vice President of Product, Next-Gen CASB

Aug 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Led integration and product development of Gamma & Palo Alto Networks CASB Business Unit
Led toward 3x business growth for PANW CASB within 18 months

Gamma

Founder, CEO

Nov 2018 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

AI-powered enterprise-ready cloud data discovery, data classification and data loss prevention platform. Acquired by Palo Alto Networks in August, 2021 to form the core of their NG-CASB data protection technology.

Target

Lead Data Scientist

Mar 2017 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Data Science, Personalization, Loyalty & Marketing

Qc ware corp.

Optimization Scientist (Independent Consultant)

Jan 2017 – Mar 2017 · 2 mos

Benchmarking CPLEX solvers for mixed integer linear programs against D-wave supported quantum computers.

Pluto labs, inc.

Founder, CEO

Jan 2016 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Palo Alto

Artificial Intelligence for Marketing. Built NLP technology for chatbots to automate sales and marketing.

Data Science Intern

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos · Mountain View

Inference & Standardization for member profiles. Unsupervised NLP for standardizing job titles and modeling seniority. Ten weeks, devised algorithm, pushed code to production. Filed two patents.

Turn

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2012 – Aug 2012 · 2 mos · Redwood City

Modeled and simulated an Ad-Exchange for understanding and testing of Turn's bidding algorithms.

Stanford university

PHD Student, Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant

Sep 2011 – Dec 2016 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Ms&E 226 - Small Data, Fall '15
Taught by: Ramesh Johari
Graduate level class taught at Stanford focussed on intersection of fundamentals of machine learning and artificial intelligence aka statistics.
Ms&E 211 - Linear Non Linear Optimization, Fall '13, '14
Taught by : Prof. Yinyu Ye, Prof. Ashish Goel
Graduate level class taught at Stanford focussed on the foundational theory behind mathematical optimization.
CS 161 - Design & Analysis of Algorithms, Spring '11
Taught by - Prof. Tim Roughgarden
One of the first classes launched on Coursera platform. Had over 50,000 students worldwide. Algorithms covered basic data structures, graph algorithms, dynamic programming.