I am a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with over 25 years of diverse and global experience in the fields of Generative AI, Edge AI, Multimodal AI, IoT, and VLSI. As a founder of 2 startups, I have a well-weathered, growth-mindset that melds my technical skills with business and strategy trade-offs in product development, tech strategy, team development, stakeholder management and scale deployment. I am also a certified TRIZ practitioner, a trained classical vocalist and have a decent tennis game.My mission is to leverage my hands-on expertise and techno-commercial skills to create cutting-edge, scalable, and impactful AI products and services that can transform industries and improve lives. My expertise gained over the years is in technology leadership, team leadership, entrepreneurship, owning product roadmaps & delivery, stakeholder management and a seasoned, deep, diverse set of experiences in the BayArea and India. From a technical perspective, have led teams, developed tech and products in Generative AI, On-Device AI, Multi-modal applications and Hybrid-Edge Scale Deployment in the Streaming Video, Audio, Text Music, Industrial domains using MLOPs and AI-as-a-Service paradigmsSpecific AI Product & Technologies : AI product development and licensing deployment in Streaming Video/Audio Cloud & Edge, Automotive Edge and Industrial domainsTransformers, LLM, ViT, CNN, VAE, GAN, MFCC, MelSpec, RNN based DL models for Computer Vision, Audio, Video, Text Multi-modal AI TensorFlow, Pytorch DeepLearning frameworks, HuggingFaceSNPE, TFLite, MLC, CoreML Real-time AI inference pipelines on Qualcomm, Mediatek, Apple, NVIDIA platforms Android Java, Linux C++ Edge AI Application development and MLOPs-based deployment