Leadership

Manish

Modh

Chief Executive Officer

Manish has 25+ years of experience as a Software Technology Architect and Executive including two startups that had successful exits. He has built and led AI and Data Science Teams for last 7 years at IBM and Gravitant as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO. Most recently, he led a team to develop an MLOps platform for data scientists. Now, he leads Andromeda 360 to take this A360 AI platform to market.
Manish has a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and an MS in Software Engineering from University of Houston-Clear Lake.

Debasmita Roychowdhury

Head of Product

Debasmita has 20+ years building and commercializing Enterprise products at Oracle and IBM.
She led Product Management for AIOps on the Hybrid Multi-Cloud Platform at IBM and was a core team member at Gravitant.
She has built and successfully operationalized brilliant product management teams. A passionate product leader driven to deliver innovative products through effective strategy, design thinking, and building strong relationships with engineering teams.

Prasad

Bandreddi, PhD

Head of Engineering

Prasad has 30+ years experience in technology, spanning diverse domains include AI, Financial Services, Investment Banking, Healthcare, and Supply Chain and has held leadership positions at IBM, Dell, Morgan Stanley, and Dow Jones, among others. He has led engineering for two startups – Exterprise and Gravitant – to acquisition by Commerce One/SAP and IBM, respectively.

Prasad holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from IIT, Delhi. He also held academic positions at MIT and University of Hyderabad where he conducted research in AI and Intelligent Information Systems.

Zac

Yung-Chun Liu

Head of AI Research

Zac has 10+ years of experience in statistical data analysis. He was lead data scientist and machine learning engineer in several companies, such as QuantumScape, Driscoll’s, and Google. Zac runs 7 Open-Source projects in data-centric AI, computer vision, NLP, and image processing. He regularly presents to top ML conferences, such as NeurIPS and TensorFlow World with over 6 publications.

Zac holds an ML Research Associate position at Stanford University and received his MS in Geophysics from Brigham Young University and BS in Geophysics from National Central University, Taiwan.

Andromedans

Lily Johnson

Senior Product Manager

Lily has 14 years of product management experience that includes building SaaS software applications. She’s a skilled trainer and project leader, proficient in agile product management and the analysis of qualification, integration, and testing of SaaS systems. Previously, Lily was a Product Director and Business Analyst for Inspirus | Sodexo Benefits & Rewards.

David Masceri, PhD

Senior Product Manager

David has over 7 years of experience designing Machine Learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) products for such diverse fields as oil and gas, utilities, railroads, public transit, and civil infrastructure. Prior to this work he conducted research in the application of sensors and AI/ML technologies to structural engineering practice.

Zalak Mistry

Senior Development Engineer in Test

Zalak has over 6 years of professional IT work experience in Software Quality Assurance and Automation. Previously, she worked as a Test Automation Engineer in different companies and where she designed and implemented automation frameworks for smoke and regression test suites using the test automation tools such as Selenium Webdriver, Protractor and Cypress.

Kalai Muthuswamy

Senior Software Engineering Manager – Data Science

Kalai has over 18 years of experience in the software industry spanning the full development lifecycle in various domains such as Fintech, Telecom, Real Estate, Cloud and AI/ML. Previously, she was an Architect at IBM where she played a vital role in the development of AIOps for the Hybrid Multi-Cloud Management Platform.

Vijaylakshmi Subramanian

Software Engineering Manager – Foundations

Vijaylakshmi has over 9 years of experience in areas such as Cloud, Identity Management, Data Science/ML. In the past, she has worked as the developer and lead for several cloud product teams for a large American Multinational Technology Corporation. She then went on to design and architect the terraform adapter for a cloud platform, which proved to be an instrumental value add to the product.

Hongwei Tian, PhD

Senior Software Engineering Manager – Model Operations

Hongwei has over 10 years experience in the software industry. Hongwei was Architect at IBM where he worked on DevOps Management for the Hybrid Multi-Cloud Management Platform. He architected and implemented automation for CI/CD, releases, and environment enablement. Hongwei holds a doctoral degree in Computer Science and has published research on Data Privacy and Data Mining.

Our North Stars – Board Members

Mohammed Farooq

Founder/Chief Strategy of Andromeda 360,
Serial Entrepeneur

Jay Modh

Founder/CEO of Intuitive.VC and Intuitive.Cloud

Abidali Neemuchwala

Venture Capitalist, Tech Executive, and Investor
Former Wipro CEO and TCS Executive

Viresh Patel

VP, Product Technology Unit, Renesas Electronics

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