Sony Theakanath
Director, Product Management - Infrastructure, AI & Compute Enablement at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSony Theakanath is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 14 years of experience building large-scale AI, privacy, and infrastructure systems across startups and hyperscale companies. Currently leading a ~300-person organization at Meta, he drives AI enablement, core infra, model governance, and agent-based systems that power hundreds of millions of daily enforcement decisions and reduced model deployment from weeks to hours. Previously he founded and scaled Asaii (acquired by Apple) and Jarvis, blending product, engineering, and ML to commercialize analytics and personalized experiences. He also built Meta’s Core Consumer Privacy organization from the ground up and authored company-wide privacy principles, evidencing a rare mix of product vision and regulatory rigor. Based in San Francisco and a Berkeley CS alum, Sony combines operator grit with research sensibilities—having co-led multimodal foundation work at FAIR—while also investing in ambitious founders through Relentless.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (33)
websockets-client9
camera9
websocket-client8
image8
ios-framework7
decal7
websocket7
gpu6
video-processing6
python6
ios6
scanning5
spotify5
altbeacon5
ibeacon4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stheakanath/Computer-Science-AP
Jan 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:6 commits in 1 year 1 month
stheakanath/Revibe
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 1 push in 1 month
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