Austin Mejia is a product leader and founder with 8 years of experience building AI-driven mobile and wearable experiences, currently leading product innovation at Plaud after shaping on-device AI and personalized ML for Google’s Pixel Watch and WearOS. He combines hands-on mobile development roots with strategic product leadership across software, infrastructure, and hardware—spanning on-device LLMs, model optimization, and AI accelerator requirements. Austin has a track record of taking early prototypes into production at scale, defining multi-year roadmaps and cross-functional programs that surface uniquely wearable experiences. He also founded Donera, a climate-focused browser plugin, and brings entrepreneurial rigor from leading teams and student organizations at Princeton to large-platform product challenges. Based in San Francisco with dual graduate training in global affairs, he uniquely blends technical product craft with systems-level thinking about compute, policy, and real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Global Affairs, Masters Global Affairs at Schwarzman Scholars
Masters Global Affairs, Masters Global Affairs at Tsinghua University
Bachelor of Arts - BA Independent Concentration: Computer Science and Public Policy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Independent Concentration: Computer Science and Public Policy at Princeton University
NodeJS API REST with MassiveJS (PostgreSQL), sessions (JWT), filter & sort.
Contributions:43 commits, 16 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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Austin Mejia - Founding Group Product Manager at Plaud