Summary
Bindi Pankhudi is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building product-focused teams and shipping AI-enabled and consumer-facing platforms across startups and large tech companies. Currently leading Health AI for Wearables at Meta, she blends deep technical grounding (Stanford MS in CS) with product and GTM experience from founding a VC-backed startup and leading GenAI initiatives at Airbyte. She has scaled teams from small pods to 30+ engineers at Dropbox, launched cross-functional initiatives that turned collaboration features into strategic products, and earned a patent while driving carrier-billing product partnerships earlier in her career. Comfortable switching between hands-on engineering, go-to-market positioning, and developer advocacy, she’s repeatedly turned nascent ideas—live video commerce, unstructured data pipelines, and health AI for wearables—into validated product trajectories. Her background in both research (medical imaging at Stanford) and business (INSEAD MBA) gives her a rare combination of technical rigor and commercial instinct. Based in San Francisco, she is known for mentoring managers, forging external partnerships, and translating complex technical roadmaps into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Marketing & Entrepreneurship, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Marketing & Entrepreneurship at INSEAD
M.S Computer Science (specialization in Graphics), M.S Computer Science (specialization in Graphics) at Stanford University
Hindi, English, French