Balwinder Kaur
Vice President Of Software Engineering at Windfall Bio
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolBalwinder Kaur is a software and AI engineering leader with 13 years of experience building zero-to-one products and scaling teams from single digits to 25 in startups and enterprise settings. She has led end-to-end software functions—product, engineering, hiring, and board-level roadmaps—most recently as VP of Software & AI at Windfall Bio, where she shipped real-time IoT/SCADA monitoring for industrial fermentors and earned an AWS/UNESCO IRCAI Compute for Climate Fellowship. A founding engineer at multiple companies including AppDynamics and Apella, she combines hands-on systems and edge-vision engineering with production ML and HIPAA-compliant data platforms. Her strengths lie in translating applied AI into measurable business outcomes across biological, industrial, and residential energy domains, including RAG/LLM apps and vector-search pipelines. Known for building diverse, high-performing teams and staying close to the code, she brings pragmatism and product focus to technical leadership. Outside work she’s a curious maker—once prototyping real-time edge ML from her garage—and collects children’s picture books while perfecting homemade yogurt.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Exec Education, Exec Education at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessIndian Institute of Technology RoorkeeB.S. Electronics and Communications, B.S. Electronics and Communications at M.S.University, Baroda
English, punjabi, hindi, gujarati
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Github Skills (21)
appdynamics9
python-bindings8
connected7
desktop-application7
react6
api6
sdk6
monitor6
desktop5
iot-framework5
software-update5
python5
device-management5
dagster5
opc5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
KhalisFoundation/banidb-api-python
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
Python bindings for bandidb API
Contributions:5 releases, 27 reviews, 21 commits in 9 months
apipython-bindingspython
Appdynamics/iot-java-sdk
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Appdynamics IoT Java SDK to monitor performance of embedded applications on connected devices
Contributions:1 release, 16 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
monitoropcuadevice-managementiot-frameworkmqtt
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