Azhar Bande-ali is a product manager and founder with 12 years of experience building consumer-facing software and AI products from engineering through go-to-market. Based in San Francisco, he spent the last several years at Meta driving product initiatives while simultaneously founding Needle.ai, signaling a strong blend of startup grit and scale-stage product experience. His background as a software engineer at NCR gives him hands-on technical fluency—particularly in consumer engagement systems—that informs data-driven roadmaps and cross-functional execution. Trained in computer science at Georgia Tech with threads in networks and human-centered computing, he combines technical depth with a focus on product usability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic operator who navigates ambiguity and delivers measurable outcomes under tight timelines.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (Threads: Information Internetworks and People), Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (Threads: Information Internetworks and People) at Georgia Institute of Technology
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