Dinesh Chahlia

Co-Founder

Seattle, Washington, United States23 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Built and scaled technology for over 100 startups.
  • Expert in AI/ML, cloud, and distributed systems.
  • Diversity and inclusion champion in tech.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a technology leader specializing in AI, cloud infrastructure, and scalable systems.

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Skills

Other Skills

Distributed SystemsScalabilityAlgorithmsMachine LearningSoftware DevelopmentEnterprise Software

About

If you are building technology that adds value to the world, I would love to help. I am engineer with a passion to make the world a better place with technology. Built and scaled tech and organizations in the areas of AI/ML, cloud, distributed systems, relevance and recommendation engines. I've been fortunate to work with over a 100 startups on vision, product market fit, technology, inclusive culture and leadership.

Experience

23 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Stealth startup

Founder

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Building technology to empower the individual

Harvard business school

Executive Fellow

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Working with Professor Shikhar Ghosh to explore how we can leverage disruptive technologies like AI, Blockchain and Synthetic Biology to make a positive impact on the world!

Wipro

Vice President, AI Platform and Architecture

May 2022Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · United States

  • Leading the development of Lab45 AI Platform

Google

2 roles

Trusted Advisor, Google for Startups

Jan 2020May 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Mentoring various startups as part of the Google's SDG Advisor program that aims to support the startups addressing the 17 UN SDGS.
  • Mentored at 10 different startup accelerators including US Black Founders, US & Canada Women Founders, UK Underrepresented Leaders and Sustainable Development Goals Pilot, APAC Women Founders, and Google Voice AI Accelerator. Previously, Google Advisor in Residence for early stage startups in India.
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion champion. Co-created and facilitated “Actionable Ideas for DEI” workshop at 10 different Startup and internal forums.
  • Google for Startups aims at leveling the playing field for startups across the world.

Head of Engineering, Cloud TPU Infra

Oct 2016May 2022 · 5 yrs 7 mos

  • Leading Cloud TPU Infra across multiple teams in the areas of scheduling, resource management, systems, reliability and diagnostics, with the mission to democratize deep learning by making exa-scale compute accessible for everyone.
  • Previously, led various initiatives to scale GCE including Regionalization and Disaster Recovery and helped build the universal shopping API in search.

Microsoft

Group Engineering Manager - Commerce Platform

Jun 2012Oct 2016 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Helped the Microsoft Universal Store embrace Azure:
  • 1. Led the development of a highly scalable and available SQL management service hosting 100TB+ data across multiple data centers.
  • 2. Led the optimization of cloud usage to drive 30MM per year in savings for Microsoft.
  • 3. Led the development of a realtime intrusion detection system to secure 500,000+ host servers.
  • Received great feedback from top executives, including the CEO Sayta Nadella.

Netflix

Engineer - Recommendation Systems

Sep 2011May 2012 · 8 mos · Las Gatos

  • Led the design and implementation of multiple features on the Netflix Top 10 Recommendations team:
  • Recommendation improvements using instant ratings, celebrity ratings, predicted moods
  • Algorithms for an Interactive gaming platform – MAX for Netflix
  • Recommending Pilot TV Shows that are very popular but the user might have overlooked
  • Episode specific recommendations for non-serialized content
  • Separating TV, Movie and Kids Top N recommendations
  • Post-play recommendations
  • Character based recommendations

Microsoft

Engineering Manager - Ads and Relevance

Oct 2006Aug 2011 · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Led various v1 efforts on Bing Ads:
  • 1. Designed and implemented Click Fraud Detection and SmartPricing system for Bing Ads.
  • 2. Built the Relevance Ranking System for Bing PaidSearch and Contextual Ads.
  • 3. Rearchitected the Bing Ad Delivery Infrastructure for cloud to reduce the cost to serve by 10x while improving latency and performance characteristics.
  • 4. Founding contributor to the NoSQL object store used by hundreds of services across Microsoft.

Auptyma (acquired by oracle)

Head of Engineering - Low Overhead JVM Profiler

Oct 2004Jul 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Helped bootstrap the development office of Auptyma Corporation in India:
  • 1. Led the design and implementation of an ultra-low overhead JVM Profiler based on reverse engineering of JVMs across Linux, AIX, Solaris and Windows.
  • 2. Mentored the team on Reverse Engineering, Assembly code reading, IDA Pro, JVM Garbage Collection, JVM Internals, Core Java, Unix Shell Scripting and Regular Expressions.
  • Auptyma was acquired by Oracle in 2007.

Firstrain

Senior Software Engineer

May 2002Oct 2004 · 2 yrs 5 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • Had lots of fun working at a high energy startup for my first job. Implemented a Focused Web Crawler.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

B Tech — Compute Science and Engineering

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