Prashant Shishodia is a founder and engineer based in San Francisco with eight years building ML-driven search and assistant systems. As CEO of Kalpa Labs (YC F25) he is driving research-to-product work on speech models while drawing on a Google tenure focused on Action LLMs, two-tower retrieval, and local search quality. He combines startup grit with large-scale production experience—shipping ranking and assistant features at Google and interning on core systems at Uber. Trained at IIT Kharagpur in Computer Science, he blends deep technical grounding with an entrepreneurial instinct for turning speech and retrieval research into customer-facing products. Notably, he has transitioned from improving search and ads quality to founding a company aimed at pushing the frontier of speech technology.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Contributions:61 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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Prashant Shishodia - CEO & Founder at Kalpa Labs (YC F25)