Summary
Vinod Sirimalle is a product leader with 15+ years of experience building consumer, B2B and developer products across fintech, conversational AI, and search, now focused on AI-driven commerce for small businesses at PayPal. He has led P&L, cross-functional teams and GTM for organizations including Venmo, PayPal, Amazon and Yahoo, shipping payment flows, local search/NLU features, and recommendation/ranking systems. His technical depth spans AI/ML, NLU and multimodal assistants as well as practical product skills like A/B testing, partner negotiations, M&A integration and international launches. Notably, he translated voice and local search research into production Alexa Automotive features and has driven payments innovations like Tap to Pay and global payment links. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs an MS in Computer Science and an EMBA with hands-on prototyping (Bell AI Fellowship) and early-stage investing in deep tech and biotech. Colleagues know him as a coach and product teacher who scales teams and turns advanced ML capabilities into revenue-generating, customer-first products.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - EMBA, Master of Business Administration - EMBA at Quantic School of Business and Technology
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Oregon State University
B.E, Computer Science & Engineering, B.E, Computer Science & Engineering at Osmania University
Hindi, Telugu, English