Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Washington University in St. Louis

Platform @ Discord (ex Google/MSFT/FB)

Leading Coursera's product teams across key initiatives: AI/ML, Platform, Search, and Enterprise.

Coursera

Vice President of Product Management

Teaching and mentoring students to shape their entrepreneurial ideas as part of the GSB's famous Startup Garage program.

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Startup Garage

General Collaboration

Investor & Advisor

Built and led Sentropy's product management, marketing, and customer success teams to create AI/ML powered moderation products for social media companies. We were acquired by Discord in 2021.

Post-acquisition, I was part of Discord's executive team as Head of Platform - leading product, design, and engineering teams for AI/ML, Core Infrastructure, and Data products.

Sentropy Technologies (acquired by Discord)

Chief Product Officer

Led product across Portal ecosystem, leading to many 0->1 experiences for Facebook's first hardware device: Facebook Assistant ("Hey Facebook"), Amazon Alexa integration (first hardware device with concurrent assistants), Portal App Store, and 3p developer platform (APIs and SDK)

Facebook

Head of Product | AR / VR

Head of Product for Nest + Google smart home ecosystem.  Built unified device platform enabling Nest devices, Google Assistant, Works with Nest, and broader 3p IoT ecosystem.

Google

Head of Product | Nest Ecosystem

Designed curriculum and taught courses on Product Management for CS undergrads; became one of the highest-rated classes after only one semester. Taught while working at Google.

Computer Science Professor

Led product + ops team to build and scale Google Enterprise products and programs to enable our global partner ecosystem, contributing to a new $1B business for the team.

Head of Product & Program Management | Google Enterprise

Started my career working in product management, marketing, and sales for Office and Windows. Had the privilege of eating BBQ at BillG's house.

Microsoft

Product Manager

Won state grant to work on Computer Vision used by DHS, NFL, and others for facial recognition.

Dev Bala