Summary
Hari Govardhanam is a Chief Technology Officer and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building production-grade ML and perception systems across autonomous vehicles, cloud-scale services, and healthcare startups. He has led end-to-end efforts from zero-to-one products—bootstrapping ML infra, large-scale training (500+ GPU clusters), and sensor-fusion perception models—while driving measurable performance and cost improvements in enterprise systems. His work spans Cruise (camera/lidar/radar fusion, simulation pipelines), Microsoft (massive ML pipelines and big-data optimizations), and now ViyaMD where he’s applying finely tuned LLMs to optimize clinical operations. Born and raised in India and now based in San Francisco, he combines pragmatic engineering with a founder’s appetite for failure-led learning and a passion for technology that scales human impact. A deceptively hands-on CTO, he still codes deeply into model and infra details while steering product and team strategy.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Robotics Machine Learning Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence, Master of Engineering Robotics Machine Learning Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence at University of Michigan