Summary
Gyanesh Pandey is a product leader with 10+ years of experience building AI-enabled consumer and enterprise products across fintech, media, and utilities, currently serving as VP of AI Product at IdeaHelix while advising and investing in generative AI startup Cohere. He has led cross-functional teams to launch data-driven platforms and API products at PayPal that generated up to $100M in incremental merchant revenue and drove over 250k net new active consumer accounts. Equally comfortable with ML and systems, he has built real-time streaming AI infrastructure for public-safety use cases at PG&E and shipped ML-powered consumer features that predict product intent and next-best-action. His background spans early engineering roles in trading systems through founding a media production company, giving him a rare blend of technical depth, storytelling instincts, and go-to-market savvy. He favors a Picasso-like product process—iterate broadly, then strip to essentials—and pursues side projects in NLP and on-device ML, including a fake-news detector and an offline TensorFlow Android app.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Education (LEAD) Corporate Innovation, Executive Education (LEAD) Corporate Innovation at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at San José State University
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Hindi, English, French