Vijay Karunamurthy

EIR

2025

Head of Engineering, Product and Design / Field CTO

2022 - 2025

Accelerating frontier model development, partnering with governments on responsible deployment, and collaboration with organizations pioneering the adoption of agents.

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.

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.

Senior Architect

2000 - 2005

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

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.