Baris Gultekin

CEO

Palo Alto, California, United States21 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly StableAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led Google Assistant growth from 10M to 500M users.
Cofounded nxyz, acquired by Snowflake for $40M.
Expert in AI & ML product management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI product management expert with a strong entrepreneurial background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai & Ml Product ManagementProduct DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipProduct ManagementAnalytics

Other Skills

Cortex AILLM inferenceAgentsSnowflake IntelligenceSearchDocument AIML platformfeature storemodeling APIsML functionsWeb3 APIsBlockchain accessReal-time dataAI teamsUser growth

Experience

21 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Snowflake

VP of Product, AI at Snowflake

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

I lead the AI & ML product teams at Snowflake, building Cortex AI for LLM inference, Agents, Snowflake Intelligence, Search, Document AI, as well as traditional ML platform with feature store, modeling APIs and ML functions like forecasting.

AI & ML product managementCortex AILLM inferenceAgentsSnowflake IntelligenceSearch+6

Nxyz (acquired by snowflake)

2 roles

Cofounder & CEO

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos

Backed by $40M from Paradigm, Sequoia and Greylock, nxyz's APIs allow web3 developers get performant, real-time, flexible access to blockchain. Acquired by Snowflake.

Web3 APIsBlockchain accessReal-time dataProduct DevelopmentEntrepreneurship

Cofounder & Chief Product Officer

Jun 2022 – May 2023 · 11 mos

Google

Senior Director of Product Management, Google Assistant

Jun 2017 – Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos

I led the Google Assistant and AI teams on Android. Grew the product from 10M to 500M monthly users.

Product ManagementAI teamsUser growthAI & ML product management

Soru

Co-founder & CEO

Apr 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

Soru was an NLP company focused on enterprise productivity.

NLPEnterprise productivityEntrepreneurshipProduct Development

Google

2 roles

Google Now Co-founder (now Assistant), Sr. PM Director

Promoted

May 2011 – May 2015 · 4 yrs

Co-founder and product lead of Google Now, an intelligent assistant on Android that gives you information you need when you need it.
Started as a 20% project and grew it to 100s of millions of monthly actives.

Product leadIntelligent assistantUser engagementProduct ManagementAI & ML product management

Group Product Manager - AdWords

Aug 2006 – May 2011 · 4 yrs 9 mos

I led Google's search ads automation efforts, automatically finding opportunities to increase ads effectiveness for advertisers. My teams built Opportunity Center, Keywordless Ads (Dynamic Search Ads), new Keyword Tool. Each are new products created from scratch and each reached $1B+ annual run-rate.
Received Google’s Founder’s Award (for Google’s #1 top achievements) and 3 Google’s Executive Management Group Awards (for top 10 achievements of each year).

Search ads automationAd effectivenessProduct developmentProduct ManagementAnalytics