Summary
Manu Venugopal is a Senior Manager of Product Management at Autodesk with nearly 11 years in product roles and 15 years of domain experience across Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC). He leads the Data Delivery Group for Autodesk Construction Cloud, shaping data strategies, AI/ML services and model-based workflows that connect 2D/3D data across web and mobile platforms. Manu conceived and launched Construction IQ—the construction industry’s first ML application—which earned two patents and industry recognition for its novel use of data to improve project outcomes. He builds and coaches high-performing product teams, partners closely with engineering, design and customer-facing functions, and translates strategic vision into deployable platform services. Grounded in a PhD on semantic web and data interoperability, he brings a rare combination of academic depth and hands-on productization of ML at scale.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-Degree (XII), Pre-Degree (XII) at University of Calicut
M.S., Computational Science and Engineering, M.S., Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
B.E, Civil Engineering, B.E, Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka