Vijay Karunamurthy
Field Chief Technology Officer at Scale AI
San Francisco, California
Overview
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.