Summary
Vidya Rangasayee is an engineering manager based in San Jose with two decades of experience leading AI/ML and product engineering teams across major tech companies and startups, now at Meta. She has a proven track record of scaling global teams and shipping production machine learning systems, having led engineering organizations at VantageScore, Affinity, and Amazon Music and driven large-scale platform work at Google and YouTube. Vidya combines deep technical chops in reinforcement learning and AI with hands-on product engineering experience, from building high-throughput consumer services to financial reconciliation systems handling billions in transactions. She’s comfortable operating across time zones and cultures, coordinating cross-functional launches between engineering hubs in India, Brazil, Switzerland, and the U.S. An early researcher in high-performance computing and novel input devices at Stanford, she brings an uncommon blend of academic rigor and pragmatic delivery. Known for hiring and mentoring strong teams, she excels at turning complex ML research into reliable, user-facing products.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BE Electrical Engineering, BE Electrical Engineering at University of Madras
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Music and CS, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Music and CS at Stanford University
Japanese, Spanish, French