Ramesh Sarukkai

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Ramesh Sarukkai is a seasoned technology executive with extensive experience in engineering and leadership roles across prominent companies. As the Founder of Prajna Inc since October 2023, Ramesh focuses on building teams in mapping, applied machine learning, and computer vision to innovate in transportation technologies. Ramesh currently serves as CPO and CTO at Guaranteed Rate and as Teaching Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, Ramesh held significant positions such as Head of Engineering at Braintree, Senior Director of Engineering at Lyft, Director of Engineering at Facebook overseeing payments infrastructure, and Director of Engineering at Google responsible for YouTube ad monetization. Ramesh's career also includes impactful roles at Yahoo! Inc., leading various innovative projects, and as a Senior Computer Scientist at Kurzweil, contributing to advanced speech recognition systems. Ramesh holds a PhD and MS in Computer Science from the University of Rochester.

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