Sam Bhattacharyya
Founder CEO at Katana
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSam Bhattacharyya is a founder-CEO and AI/Computer Vision leader with 11 years of experience building profitable consumer-facing products and startups out of San Francisco. He led AI at StreamYard (Hopin), shipping features like virtual backgrounds and noise removal, and previously co-founded Vectorly, a video-compression technology company whose patent-driven approach attracted strategic investment and an eventual acquisition. Sam combines product strategy and hands-on engineering (Python/Node), runs two profitable products—an automated podcast editor and a 300k-MAU video upscaler featured by Google—and is now on his second startup, Katana. Fluent in Mandarin and Spanish and an MIT MBA graduate, he brings a rare mix of deep technical R&D, IP creation, and commercial traction across video, streaming, and AI.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Skydeck Fellow, Skydeck Fellow at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Engineering - MEng, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Vanderbilt UniversityB.S., Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Mechanical Engineering at Columbia Engineering
English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Portuguese
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Github Skills (52)
lottie10
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javascript9
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webrtc9
android9
bodymovin9
react9
mongodb9
html9
adobe8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sb2702/audioRecord.js
Jun 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 8 months
Vectorly/ai-filters-examples
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 review, 27 PRs, 85 pushes in 6 months
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