Prashant Shishodia
CEO & Founder at Kalpa Labs (YC F25)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPrashant 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
Github Skills (36)
opencv10
camera-calibration10
full-duplex10
moshi9
speech9
cpp9
huggingface8
audio8
codec8
datasets8
natural-language-processing7
tinder7
nlp7
computer-vision6
data-structures6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pshishodiaa/CP-fuckUps
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
pshishodiaa/CP-Resources.
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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