Vivek Raju Muppalla

Vivek Raju Muppalla has a diverse work experience in the technology industry. Vivek Raju is currently serving as the Director of Engineering at Cohere, a position they have held since 2023. Prior to that, from 2022 to 2023, they worked as a Director at Scale AI, where they were responsible for starting the company's Synthetic Data Business and focused on the Scale Enterprise Generative AI platform.

Before joining Scale AI, Vivek worked at Unity Technologies from 2019 to 2022. Vivek Raju held various roles at Unity, including Director of Engineering (AI and Simulation Product Engineering) and Senior Manager (AI and Simulation Product Engineering). In these roles, they managed the product and engineering for Unity ML-Agents, Unity Computer Vision, and Unity Robotics.

From 2018 to 2019, Vivek worked at Quantcast as a Senior Engineering Manager, where they were involved in building large scale distributed systems for data analytics. Prior to that, they served as a Software Development Manager at Amazon from 2016 to 2018, focusing on the Cloud drive (Prime photos) project.

Vivek has also worked at Groupon as a Senior Engineering Manager, where they contributed to the development of the search, inventory, and booking engine for Groupon Getaways. Vivek Raju joined Groupon in 2012 and held multiple roles, including Engineer II/Lead and Senior Engineering Manager - Platform.

Earlier in their career, Vivek worked at Expedia as a Software Development Engineer and Software Development Engineer in Test. Vivek Raju was involved in projects such as Revenue Optimization Engineering and optimizing hotel sort.

Vivek started their career at Merrill Lynch as a Summer Technology Analyst, where they developed web services for equity trading and worked on mobile strategy development for the investment banking and research teams.

Throughout their career, Vivek has demonstrated strong leadership skills and expertise in various areas of technology, particularly in AI, simulation, and large-scale systems development.

Vivek Raju Muppalla received their Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai in the years 2002-2006. Vivek Raju then pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2006 to 2008. In addition to their formal education, Vivek Raju Muppalla has obtained the ISTQB Foundation certification from the ISTQB institution. The specific month and year when they obtained this certification are not provided.