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Kishore Iyer

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Vice President, AI Applications and Engineering
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  • Octus
    Vice President, AI Applications and Engineering
    Octus
    May 2024 - Current (2 years 6 months)
    Key Achievements (18 months):
    • Shipped four GenAI products (CreditAI Vault, Deal Lens, CovenantAI, and Octus Support Chatbot), establishing three new ARR streams (Vault, Deal Lens, CovenantAI)
    • Led cross-functional team of 20+ (VPs, Sr. Directors, Directors, and Senior ICs across Tech, Data Science, Product, Auth, App Dev, and AI Engineering) to deliver Deal Lens and CovenantAI in 10 months
    • Worked closely with commercial and product strategy teams on Vault go-to-market, including 30+ customer demos, enabling paid customer acquisition
    • Collaborated with Compliance and Security leadership to implement AI Governance policies for responsible/ethical AI and achieve SOC2 compliance for our AI platform handling sensitive u
  • Capital One
    Senior Manager, ML Engineering
    Capital One
    Sep 2022 - May 2024 (1 year 9 months)
    • Led teams that built and maintained Capital One's enterprise ML software suite (Python libraries, Kubeflow components, and reference pipelines) serving all stages of the ML model development lifecycle for enterprise-wide usage by data science and quantitative teams. The suite supports a wide range of model types including gradient-boosted trees, neural networks, and transformers/GenAI, and consists of both open-source and inner-sourced software.
    • Owned, established, and strengthened partnerships with customers across all lines of business (LOB) to drive adoption and growth of our enterprise ML software suite. To date, the suite has been used to build key ML models valued at $300MM+/year across multiple LOBs.
  • igolgi inc
    Vice President Of Advanced Products
    igolgi inc
    Apr 2018 - Aug 2022 (4 years 5 months)
    • Architected and deployed igolgi's real-time video analytics platform (Falcon) for defense and law enforcement markets, leveraging a microservices-based distributed architecture. Enabled real-time inferencing at the edge supporting 100+ concurrent camera feeds using React, Django-Python, and C/C++ microservices. (https://www.ai.igolgi.com)
    • Assembled and led a high-performing engineering and data science team to deliver Falcon to production, establishing a new revenue stream and customer vertical that drove double-digit YoY revenue growth
    • Developed AI inference components using state-of-the-art instance segmentation algorithms in
  • Zipreel Inc
    Co-founder & CTO
    Zipreel Inc
    Jan 2017 - Mar 2018 (1 year 3 months)
    • Led M&A transaction for Zipreel Inc. acquisition, orchestrating collaboration between executive, legal, and technical teams across both organizations to drive successful deal closure.
    • Architected and built StreamEngine, a distributed, scalable VOD transcoding platform using Django-Python and C/C++, deployed at major cable operators across North America and Japan, delivering video streaming capabilities to millions of subscribers.
    • Architected and built AudioMeta (real-time, speech-to-text web service to generate metadata for live radio), and CommercialDetect, a web service to detect ad-blocks in videos with high accuracy. Both services were deployed and used by the
  • Zipreel Inc
    Co-founder, VP of Engineering
    Zipreel Inc
    Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 (1 year)
  • Zipreel Inc
    Co-founder, Director of Engineering
    Zipreel Inc
    Jan 2015 - Dec 2015 (1 year)
  • Zipreel Inc
    Co-founder, Technical Lead
    Zipreel Inc
    Sep 2013 - Dec 2014 (1 year 4 months)
  • Zipreel Inc
    Co-founder, Senior Software Engineer
    Zipreel Inc
    Jun 2012 - Aug 2013 (1 year 3 months)
  • Shelf Inc
    Co-founder and Software Engineer
    Shelf Inc
    Jan 2012 - Jun 2012 (6 months)
    • Conceptualized, built and deployed Shelf, a web-service that helps online shoppers organize, track and make intelligent purchasing decisions for apparel. Developed the web app using Django Python and deployed it using gunicorn, Nginx, Redis and PostgreSQL on Heroku.
    • Shelf’s core technology auto-discovers promotions (from web & email), extracts information from them (using text/image analysis), checks their applicability (using an auto-checkout bot), and recommends smart ways to redeem them
    • Pitched to investors, talked to early users, and applied to start-up incubator competitions (Y-Combinator finalists for the summer 2012 program)
  • NEC Laboratories America Inc
    Research Staff Member
    NEC Laboratories America Inc
    Jan 2009 - Dec 2011 (3 years)
    • Developed algorithms and built system prototypes to generate key IP in the 5G Gigabit WiFi (IEEE 802.11ad) domain. Ensured adoption of generated IP through active negotiations and participation in standards bodies. This work helped add high-throughput capabilities to NEC's iPASOLINK communications system that has shipped 2.5M units and is deployed in 153 countries worldwide.
    • Published at peer-reviewed top-tier networking (ACM MobiCom), systems (USENIX NSDI) and measurement conferences (PAM) in the areas of gigabit wireless networks, data center networks, and WiFi networks.
  • NEC Laboratories America Inc
    Summer Intern
    NEC Laboratories America Inc
    May 2008 - Aug 2008 (4 months)
    • Designed R2D2, a software framework to jointly optimize directionality, base station diversity, and bit-rate for vehicle-to-infrastructure networks
    • Prototype implementation/evaluation showed 2x improvement in link throughput and connectivity durations
    • Was featured by MIT's technology review: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22718/
  • NEC Laboratories America Inc
    Summer Intern
    NEC Laboratories America Inc
    May 2007 - Oct 2007 (6 months)
    • Designed Symphony, a deployable joint power and rate control solution for enterprise WiFi networks
    • Prototype implementation on the MadWifi open-source Linux device driver and evaluation revealed up to 46% improvement in battery life and up to 50% improvement in network capacity
    • A patent was issued for Symphony (Issue #: US 8134958 B2)
  • Bell Labs Lucent Technologies
    Summer Intern
    Bell Labs Lucent Technologies
    Jun 2005 - Sep 2005 (4 months)
    • Designed "make-before-break" twin-radio handoff algorithms for IEEE 802.11 WLANs to realize MAC-layer handoff latencies below 10ms and near-zero packet loss
    • Implemented a prototype in the HostAP Linux device driver for Prism-based cards, and evaluated performance in an indoor office environment
    • A patent was issued for these hand-off algorithms (Issue #: US 8,902,857 B2)
  • WINLAB Rutgers University
    Graduate Student Researcher
    WINLAB Rutgers University
    Jul 2003 - Jan 2009 (5 years 7 months)
    • As part of a core team of eight, built the world’s largest (400 computers and 800 WiFi radios) open-access, indoor wireless testbed (ORBIT). This project received the National Science Foundation's Schwarzkopf Award in 2008. See https://www.orbit-lab.org
    • Developed libmac, a C library that facilitates wireless network measurements, which is utilized by the default front-end application on ORBIT (used by researchers at 100+ institutions worldwide).
    • Proposed the RRAA+ algorithm to realize collision-aware MAC-layer bit-rate adaptation for up to 2x gain in network throughput for enterprise WiFi networks. Implemented prototype on MadW
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  • University of Michigan
    Lean Startup Program, Entreprenuership
    University of Michigan
    Jun 2012 - Dec 2012 (7 months)
  • Rutgers University
    Ph.D, Computer Engineering
    Rutgers University
    Aug 2003 - Dec 2008 (5 years 5 months)
    • As part of a lean team of eight engineers, built the world's largest open-access wireless networking research facility (see http://www.orbit-lab.org/)
    • Design and implementation of a deployable solution for joint transmit power and bit-rate adaptation for enterprise WiFi networks (published at the prestigious ACM MobiSys conference in 2008, as well as the ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking + patent granted)
    • Design and implementation of a deployable solution for joint tuning of bit-rate and directional beams to optimize connectivity from a moving vehicle (published at the prestigious ACM MobiSys conference in 2009)
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  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    M.S, Computer and Systems Engineering
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Aug 2000 - May 2002 (1 year 10 months)
    As part of my Master's thesis, demonstrated the effectiveness of priority queues in Internet routers in dealing with reverse path congestion and estimating queue backlog on a wired network path through network simulations.
  • University of Mumbai
    Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
    University of Mumbai
    Jan 1996 - Jan 2000 (4 years 1 month)
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    Symphony: Synchronous Two-Phase Rate and Power Control in 802.11 WLANs
    IEEEACM Transactions on Networking Aug
    A deployable joint transmit power and bit-rate adaptation framework to improve spatial reuse for enterprise WiFi networks
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    Accumulation-Based Congestion Control
    IEEEACM Transactions on Networking Feb
    Provably enhanced Internet congestion control with minimal support from routers
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    Effect of antenna placement and diversity on vehicular network communications
    th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks SECON Jan
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    R2D2: Regulating Beam Shape and Rate as Directionality meets Diversity
    International Conference on Mobile Systems Applications and Services MobiSys Jun
    Significantly improving the wireless link throughput from vehicles through clever use of directional antennas and base station diversity
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    On the Potential of Fixed-beam 60 GHz Network Interfaces in Mobile Devices
    th Passive and Active Measurement conference PAM Mar
    Is a fixed-antenna 60 GHz gigabit wireless network interface on mobile devices, that users point towards the access point, a good idea?
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    Overview of the ORBIT radio grid testbed for evaluation of next-generation wireless network protocols
    IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Jan
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    Make-before-break MAC layer handoff in 802.11 wireless networks
    IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC Jan
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    Experimental analysis of broadcast reliability in dense vehicular networks
    IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine Jan
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    Proteus: a topology malleable data center network
    Proceedings of the th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks Jan
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    OSA: an optical switching architecture for data center networks with unprecedented flexibility
    IEEEACM Transactions on Networking Jan
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