Summary
Manu Chatterjee is a seasoned software and AI leader in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently guiding AI strategy as VP & Head of AI at Leapfrog Technology and as Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at SecondLook Health. He blends hands-on engineering with scalable product leadership, moving from hardware prototyping to cloud-native ML systems and guiding geo-diverse teams through funding, releases, and successful exits (Trensant AI acquired by Interos; Lampdesk acquired by Palm). An inventor with 45+ patents, his work spans speech recognition, DSP, image processing, and large-scale software platforms. He champions end-to-end release pipelines, CI/CD, and agile practices to ship WebApps and APIs on AWS/Linux. Beyond leadership, he applies startup strategy, prototyping, and IP development to turn emerging tech trends into real-world solutions, valuing people-centric collaboration.
9 years of coding experience