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Vijay Karunamurthy

Field Chief Technology Officer at Scale AI

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Vijay Karunamurthy is the Field CTO at Scale AI in San Francisco, with a strong background in engineering management and software development. Notable career highlights include serving as Director of Engineering at Apple and Co-Founder/CTO at AVOS Systems Inc., while also investing in AI startups like Lutra AI and LearnSprout.

Work Experience 

  • Field Chief Technology Officer

    2023 - Current

  • Head of Engineering, Product and Design

    2022 - 2023

Scale AI provides a data-oriented platform that assists in the development of AI applications.

Raised $2,602,620,000.00 from WCM Investment Management, Meta, Wellington Management, Y Combinator, Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, NVIDIA, Nat Friedman, Thrive Capital and Qualcomm Ventures.

  • Director of Engineering

    2017 - 2022

    Machine learning and software, integrated into Apple services - iPhone, Vision Pro, intelligence, applications, and streaming. Led MLEs and engineering staff in Cupertino, New York, London and Singapore offices.

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.

Raised $1,170,230,000.00 from KB Securities, Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.

  • Co-Founder and CEO

    2014 - 2017

    Co-founder with Steve Chen. ML applied to live, collaborative video. - Backed by Disney, Khosla Ventures, Blue Run, Google Ventures, Jared Leto. - Communities centered around Michelin-starred chefs like Corey Lee and Tim Hollingsworth. - Chosen as an Apple App Store “New Apps We Love”. - 10M+ MAUs across live content and asynchronous stories.

  • Co-Founder and CTO

    2010 - 2014

    Co-founder with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, for Google Ventures and NEA-backed ML and media startup. Focused on discovery and recontextualization of content on the web (Delicious) through visual formats and video (MixBit) and leveraging shared ML infrastructure (AVOS Cloud.)

  • Head of Search and Discovery Engineering, YouTube

    2006 - 2010

    (YouTube acquired by Google 12/2006.) * Led engineering teams responsible for machine learning, discovery, scalability, growth, uploads, launch of the iPhone, and partner opportunities at Youtube. - Lead org of staff engineers, applied ML and engineering managers focused on site growth, UX, performance and safety. - Rearchjtected upload and indexing pipelines prior to Google acquisition.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Senior Architect

    2000 - 2005

    Tech lead for options trading and credit and risk markets platforms.

E*Trade is a financial services company that specializes in online discount stock brokerage service for self-directed investors.

  • Lead Engineer

    2000 - 2000

    SaaS data integration startup, acquired by ETRADE.

  • Student Researcher, Bioinformatics

    1998 - 2000

    Simple NN looking at the proteome of the Cytochrome P450 class of enzymes.

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