Summary
Mihir Garimella is a Silicon Valley-trained software and AI leader with 13 years of experience building products at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, and infrastructure. As Co-Founder and CEO of Actively, he now focuses on AI-powered pipeline generation for high-growth companies, having previously worked on AI video understanding at Helia (acquired by Scale AI) and self-supervised learning for Waymo’s autonomy stack. His background includes hands-on robotics and computer vision engineering at Near Earth Autonomy, research stints at MIT and Carnegie Mellon, and system-level work on Facebook’s Connectivity Lab, demonstrating a rare blend of research depth and production engineering. Comfortable moving between product, research, and founding roles, he has repeatedly shipped complex systems that bridge edge hardware and ML models. Based in New York, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with technical rigor from a Stanford CS foundation. An understated detail: his career threads show a consistent focus on bringing intelligence to physical systems and infrastructure at scale.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Stanford University