Yash Ranadive is a founder and seasoned software engineering leader with 14 years of experience building large-scale AI, video, and ads systems, now focused on pioneering AI-driven video commerce for Shopify merchants. He led teams at Meta that generated over $1B in incremental SMB ad revenue and ran Spatial Computing efforts at Reality Labs, delivering video anonymization and data pipelines that powered devices like Quest 3. Yash combines deep data and infrastructure expertise—from petabyte-scale pipelines at Lookout to real-time video/AR systems—with a product-first founder mindset demonstrated in startups like GrepPage and Videoselz. He has a track record of rapidly iterating product-market fit (GrepPage reached 12K searches/month) and translating complex computer vision and ML research into production features. Based in San Francisco with an MS from Carnegie Mellon, he uniquely bridges ads-driven growth tactics and immersive video tech to help brands convert viewers into buyers.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science and Software Engineering, B.S., Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas
MS, Information Systems, MS, Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
Contributions:30 commits, 10 pushes, 2 issues in 10 months
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