Nagendra Goel
Co-founder & CEO at Go Vivace Inc.
McLean, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNagendra Goel is a speech technology entrepreneur and researcher with 14+ years building production-grade ML-driven voice solutions as Co-founder and CEO of GoVivace, delivering speech recognition, speaker ID/verification, synthesis and audio indexing for SaaS customers. He combines deep academic roots—a PhD in signal processing and speech recognition—with hands-on engineering leadership across startups and research labs, including IBM T.J. Watson and LSI Logic. Nagendra has guided products from embedded automotive transcription to large-scale IVR and broadcast-to-text systems, and he still contributes to core open-source tooling such as Kaldi, improving documentation and C++ speech-processing code. He co-founded EnableDoc to apply web and speech tech to healthcare workflows, showing a pattern of translating research into practical, revenue-generating services. Known for bridging signal-processing rigor with product delivery, he leads engineering teams that turn novel algorithms into deployable analytics and conversational AI. Based in McLean, VA, he blends patent-backed R&D experience with startup grit to solve real-world voice and language challenges.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech. Electrical Engineering, B.Tech. Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute Of Technologyhigh school Geology/Earth Science General, high school Geology/Earth Science General at St. Marys Academy - MeerutJohns Hopkins UniversityIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Hindi
Github Skills (7)
kaldi10
speech-recognition10
cpp10
speech10
cplus10
shell5
cuda4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kaldi-asr/kaldi
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
kaldi-asr/kaldi is the official location of the Kaldi project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nagendra primarily focused on documentation updates and minor code corrections within the Kaldi project. These updates involve changes to comments and documentation files, ensuring accuracy and clarity. The user's contributions touch on the core functionalities of the project, including modifications to C++ source files related to speech processing. This includes functions such as accumulating tree statistics and conversion of alignments to posteriors.
cudakaldiasrspeech-to-textkaldi-asr
GoVivace/icefall
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Forked from k2-fsa for upstream contributions
Contributions:1 push in 9 days
fsaupstream
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