Vijay Karunamurthy

Field Chief Technology Officer

2023 - Current

Head of Engineering

2022 - 2023

Scale is on a mission to accelerate the development of Generative AI. We apply the power of human-aligned Foundation Models to some of industry’s most critical challenges in autonomy, media, financial services and healthcare.

Director of Engineering

2017 - 2022

Machine learning and software, as part of Apple media products - hardware products, services, and streaming.

Co-Founder and CEO

2014 - 2017

Co-founder with Steve Chen. ML applied to live, collaborative video. Backed by Khosla Ventures, Blue Run, Google Ventures, Jared Leto. Apple App Store “New Apps We Love” 2016.

Co-Founder and CTO

2010 - 2014

Co-founder with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, for Google Ventures and NEA-backed ML and media startup.

Head of Search and Discovery

2006 - 2010

(Acquired by Google.) * Led engineering teams responsible for machine learning, discovery, scalability, growth, uploads and partner opportunities at Youtube. Managed team of 50 senior and staff engineers across different roles.

Senior Architect

2000 - 2005

Tech lead for options trading and credit and risk markets platforms.

Lead Engineer

2000 - 2000

SaaS data integration startup, acquired by ETRADE.

Student Researcher, Bioinformatics

1998 - 2000

Simple NN looking at the proteome of the Cytochrome P450 class of enzymes.