Jan 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Building the #1 No Edit Video Creation platform for businesses, YouTubers, and Podcasters. Using Generative AI, Rizzle automates the video creation process, taking all the editing out of the equation. Rizzle is partnered with Getty Images, MapTiiler, and Statista to bring the best in stock media, maps, and charts to create videos for YouTube, social media, and your websites, in many different areas.

Mar 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 1 mo

Mar 2019 – Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Built the Rizzle UGC short video platform with 85M+ downloads, 34M monthly active users, and ~10M creators! Rizzle brought viral AI-based one-touch video creation features that brought 25M+ views to small creators on Reels and YouTube. Rizzle also pioneered episodic short (60-second) videos, making it the platform for user-generated, short vertical series.
• Over 500M videos were created using Rizzle's one-touch video creation features and templates.

Mar 2015 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Built a video AMA platform that hosted AMAs from government officials (partner: Associated Press), NFL players (partner: Players Tribune), renowned book authors (partner: Harper Collins), and thousands of others.

Jun 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Started the always-on location and context team at Android that brought hardware optimizations to sense 24x7. Grew the Android sensors team. Bootstrapped and grew several projects from hardware based core always on processing to high level semantic context for applications.

Jan 2006 – Jun 2012 · 6 yrs 5 mos

• Ushered Qualcomm into the area of context aware computing.
• Mobile Context Aware Computing - Bootstrapped and led a multi-disciplinary research team with a focus on fusing multi-modal data from sensors, location, audio, applications, etc. to infer situations; research areas include machine learning, semantic modeling, reasoning, user experience and privacy with wireless and resource-constrained optimizations.
• Led efforts on various academic research collaborations, including establishment of a Scientific Advisory Board with leading experts in machine learning, semantic web and HCI. Bootstrapped academic collaborations in Computer Science areas of research at top schools, with creative efforts to connect academic projects to applied industry research.
• Led a project on metadata-based wireless optimized service discovery on overlay peer-to-peer networks scaling from personal area to global overlays, for seamless discovery of services across hybrid links and devices. Built a robust peer-to-peer overlay network architecture with distributed hash tables and a keyword based service discovery mechanism.
• Member of several Patent Review Boards; experience in technology evaluation for early stage companies for strategic investments

Jan 2003 – Jan 2011 · 8 yrs

• Co-Chair, NETLMM Working Group
• Member, Security Directorate
• Creator, HOKEY Working Group
• Co-Chair, IPSec Failure and Redundancy BoF
• Significant contributor in Internet, Security and Real-time Applications & Infrastructure areas. Authored numerous internet drafts.
• Co-authored RFCs 5169, 5177, 5295, 5296.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2005 · 7 yrs

• Key contributor to Motorola’s public safety Mobile VPN and Mobile Network architectures; designed various aspects of mobile routers with a focus on high availability and fast handoffs for mission critical operations.
• Key architect of the largest commercially deployed IP multicast network as part of Motorola’s first all-IP two-way radio network. In-depth architecture and protocol design work on unicast and multicast routing including RIP, OSPF, BGP, IGMPv2/v3, IGMP forwarding, PIM-SM, DVMRP, MPLS, etc.
• Member of patent committee; experience with competitive IP analysis; experience with technology investigation for Motorola Early Stage Accelerator and Motorola Ventures