Co-Founder - Cto And Head Of Product
San Francisco, California, Us
We help leaders build collaborative teams through insights on how they talk & listen. Ambit is proudly incubated and spun-off from SRI International - the birthplace of Siri and Nuance.As Cofounder and Product Lead: • Raised $1.1M pre-seed round - through VCs and angels. • Led the pivot from EdTech to Enterprise SaaS by creating new product offering (Workshop in a box) and closed the first paid pilot with a 5000+ people International Tech company - in 2 weeks. • Ideated, prototyped, worked with design and engineering to launch the MVP in 4 weeks. • Owned the end to end product lifecycle of 2 different product offerings including one consumer facing Personal Communication Coach and one enterprise SaaS product - Workshop in a box. • Hired and managed contract designers and developers. As CTO • Worked with Research Lab at SRI to adapt and tune voice tech models - Real time speaker identification, segmentation, emotion detection, speech recognition - to fit the Ambit use case. • Built first version of consumer facing product - Ambit Personal Coach. A streaming voice service + API that provides real time communication report for any meeting. (NodeJS / Express / Redis / Python / MongoDB / iOS Swift / React / Google Cloud Platform / Kubernetes / AWS) • Architected a backend server that was flexible to support 3 different product pivots and at the same time scalable enough to handle 1000s of concurrent streaming connections. • Built the data Science learning and accuracy improvement platform. The data aggregation, annotation, test framework helped increase accuracy of speaker separation for the Ambit use case by 20%. • Built a team of engineers, data scientists and interns - both local in Bay Area + Remote