Summary
Aparna Dhinakaran is a founder and product-oriented engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling ML-driven platforms from early startups to Fortune 500 customers. As Founder and Chief Product Officer at Arize AI, she leads development of a market-leading ML observability platform used to monitor, explain, and troubleshoot real-time model and data issues. She previously co-founded Monitor ML (YC S19) and brings hands-on ML engineering experience from roles at Uber, Apple, and TubeMogul, combining practitioner empathy with product vision. A Forbes AI columnist, she regularly translates technical trends into practical guidance for builders and decision-makers. Based in Berkeley, she blends deep academic grounding in EECS with startup grit and a knack for turning operational ML pain points into elegant product solutions. An interesting non-obvious detail: she has shepherded an acquired YC startup into a category-defining product used by top ML teams.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
S19, S19 at Y Combinator
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Vision at Cornell University
English, Tamil, Spanish