About

Vikesh Khanna is a seasoned software engineer, designer, and architect with over 10 years of experience in building complex products across various platforms. He is currently the CTO and co-founder of Ambient.ai, a Series-B company backed by YC and a16z, that is pushing the boundaries of applied computer vision. Before founding Ambient.ai, Vikesh worked on Dropbox's analytics data infrastructure, where he was responsible for building the core infrastructure that enables Dropbox to make data-driven decisions for sales, product strategy, marketing, engineering, etc. He also worked at Microsoft and LinkedIn, where he shipped products. Vikesh is passionate about AI and its transformative influence on society in the years to come. He believes that we can harness the power of smart and intelligent devices to enrich our lives and make ourselves dramatically more productive. He enjoys solving challenging problems in deep learning, computer vision, and large-scale systems. At Ambient.ai, Vikesh is using cutting-edge deep learning to solve an incredibly important real-world problem - securing the planet through human-level visual intelligence. The company has been named one of the 20 Rising Stars as part of the Forbes 2020 Cloud 100 list. Vikesh is leading the technical team at Ambient.ai as the CTO and co-founder. Vikesh holds a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT. He also attended Delhi Public School, Hardwar. Vikesh has a strong technical background in AI, senior software engineering, infrastructure, computer vision, deep learning, and backend development. If you want to be a part of a fast-growing enterprise infrastructure company solving some of the most challenging and meaningful problems, reach out to Vikesh and his team at Ambient.ai.