Summary
Prabal Gupta is an AI engineer and technology leader with 10 years of experience building data-driven products and advising startups and VCs from Waterloo. As Director at Rama Labs he blends hands-on engineering with technical due diligence and advisory work that actually ships code, and he previously scaled applied ML across roles at Microsoft and product-focused startups. He founded Monitor Intent to commercialize a proprietary AI pipeline that monitors social media for buyer intent and integrates prospect intelligence directly into CRMs, demonstrating a knack for turning research into revenue-generating tooling. A University of Waterloo computer engineering alum, Prabal’s background spans signal-processing research, stochastic optimization, and production ML—he’s solved performance bottlenecks (e.g., 750% simulation speedups) and improved model robustness in sensor-driven domains. Known for organizing community AI meetups, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep technical craft and a bias toward shipping pragmatic AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Graduated with Distinction, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Graduated with Distinction at University of Waterloo
English, Punjabi, Hindi