Summary
Vivek Kirubanandan is an engineering leader and founder who specializes in closing the gap between AI adoption and measurable outcomes, currently leading Meta’s Cloud Signals Platform and co-founding BridgeLabs-AI to transform digital businesses with AI. With 16+ years building products at scale—including 12 years at Amazon across e-commerce, Kindle, payments, and global teams—he combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to deploy privacy-preserving AI on advertisers’ cloud infrastructure. He is an active angel investor in AI-adjacent edtech and career platforms, and the founder of SDE Skills, a long-running nonprofit that has helped engineers level up since 2010. Known for translating engineering reality into organizational change, he speaks and writes about why AI projects stall after the first 60 days and how to redesign operating models for durable impact.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Quantic School of Business and Technology
Bachelor Technology, Civil Engineering, Bachelor Technology, Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
Tamil, Hindi, English