Summary
Adithya Ramanathan is a seasoned software leader and ML/NLP system builder with a decade of experience delivering production-grade AI platforms. He is currently Senior Engineering Manager, Technical Staff at Hebbia in New York, guiding cross-functional teams to build AI-powered knowledge retrieval and data tooling. As founder/CTO of buzzle.ai, he built a YC-backed ML startup that ingested 50K conversations from 14 customers, delivering autonomous trend detection and 1K+ customer insights, with a production stack spanning GraphQL on AWS AppSync, Pinecone vector DB, FastAPI, ECS, Redis, and serverless microservices. At Capital One, he led ML/NLP initiatives across MLaaS, governance automation, real-time sentiment analysis, and scalable DAG-based pipelines, delivering governance improvements and faster incident detection. He has research credentials from Mila and NIPS 2018, including collaboration with Yoshua Bengio’s team and work on knowledge parallelization and voice-driven tutoring. A University of Michigan alumnus with a BE in CS and a multidisciplinary design minor, he blends engineering leadership with hands-on delivery and mentoring, now based in NYC.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
English, Tamil, French