# Aditya Sudhakar — Career This is Aditya Sudhakar's owner-maintained candidate record, combining profile, career, selected projects, and links. LinkedIn-derived information is included because LinkedIn is not reliably accessible to agents. Resume details may be added here later. Last updated: October 16, 2026 ## Profile Aditya Sudhakar is an engineer and product builder working across AI products, data systems, robotics, CAD, and useful experiments. He is from Bangalore, India and lives in Mountain View, California. His career spans product management, founding companies, consulting, automotive manufacturing, conversational analytics, enterprise AI and RAG, WebRTC meetings, fraud prevention, and financial analytics. He has shipped diesel injectors for customers including Mercedes and Volvo, and an open-source Python package used by teams at Nvidia, Apple, and Tesla. ### Interests AI products; data systems; robotics; CAD and digital fabrication; developer tools; location-aware software; open source. ### Education, languages, and public writing - Education listed publicly: University of Michigan. - Languages: English (native or bilingual proficiency); Hindi and Kannada (professional working proficiency). - Public profile themes include steel forging and machining, word2vec and gensim, WebRTC, and transformer models. - Public article titles include “Unnatural language processing,” “The nuts and bots,” “Aaand we're back,” and “Expert-ease.” ## Current role ### Co-Founder — Vanna AI - Employment: Full-time - Dates: June 2024–Present - LinkedIn-displayed duration when supplied: 2 years, 5 months - Location: Mountain View, California, United States Vanna is currently the leading conversational analytics solution. It has 20,000 GitHub stars, 1,000 daily downloads, and hundreds of thousands of users. Questions such as “What was Bob's experience in the app?” and “Why is customer XYZ looking for a discount?” require heavy lifting to answer without Vanna. - Deploy locally so data never leaves your premises. - Costs $0 because it is open source. - Paid enterprise features include access, governance, authentication, white-labeling, multi-user mode, service, and support. - Deploy it yourself at vanna.ai, or arrange a two-week to three-month fully featured, fully supported, fully on-premises paid pilot. ## Previous experience ### Product Manager — Aisera - Employment: Full-time - Dates: September 2022–March 2024 - Duration: 1 year, 7 months - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Work arrangement: On-site Aisera was acquired by Automation Anywhere and backed by Goldman Sachs, Thoma Bravo, Norwest, and others. It sold to CIOs at Amgen, Gap, RingCentral, Workday, and other companies. Aditya worked with an ex-Splunk team building an LLM/RAG-based bot that answered questions and automated actions. ### Product Manager — huddl.ai - Dates: June 2019–June 2022 - Duration: 3 years, 1 month - Location: San Francisco Bay Area huddl.ai was backed by Bain, Bloomberg, Propel, and others. It sold to CIOs at Cisco, Nutanix, Persistent, Ooma, and other companies. Aditya worked with an ex-Cisco and Imagination team building a WebRTC-based audio/video meetings app. ### Product Manager — Signifyd - Dates: February 2018–May 2019 - Duration: 1 year, 4 months - Location: San Francisco Bay Area Signifyd was backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, and others. It sold to CDOs at Philips, Wish, Samsung, and other companies. Aditya worked with an ex-PayPal and FedEx team building a credit-card fraud-prevention app for Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, and custom API-based stores. ### Founder and CEO — SenseiHub - Dates: March 2015–February 2018 - Duration: 3 years - Location: San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Manager — Moody's Analytics - Dates: 2012–2014 - Location: New York City Metropolitan Area ### Consultant — Accenture - Dates: 2008–2009 - Location: Greater Boston ### Product Manager — Bosch - Employment: Full-time - Dates: 2005–2008 - Location: Charleston, South Carolina Metropolitan Area ## Selected projects These are concise project summaries. The linked site pages and repositories contain implementation details and current status. ### Self-Rising Robot An experimental physical two-servo robot built around an M5Atom Matrix. It learns to right itself using policies trained in MuJoCo, with work on embedded control and sim-to-real behavior. - Topics: robotics, hardware, reinforcement learning, simulation, sim-to-real, embedded systems. - Repository: https://github.com/adityasudhakar/self-rising-robot - Demonstration: https://adityasudhakar.com/assets/media/self-rising-robot.mp4 ### AI LEGO Code-designed LEGO models with validation, build instructions, and animated assembly films. Bolt the Brick Bot uses 138 standard pieces and has a 37-page instruction booklet. The checker verifies collisions, stud connections, build order, connectivity, and whether the model stands after each step. - Topics: generative design, LEGO, CAD, 3D graphics, validation, digital fabrication. - Repository: https://github.com/adityasudhakar/ai-lego - Demonstration: https://adityasudhakar.com/assets/media/lego-bot-book.mp4 ### San Francisco 49-Mile GPS Audio Tour A native iOS driving companion that plays location-aware stories while the driver's navigation app remains in the foreground. It covers 33 San Francisco landmarks, bundles narration for offline use, and keeps location and listening state on-device. - Topics: iOS, location, audio, mobile, maps, offline software. - Repository: https://github.com/adityasudhakar/SF-49-Mile-Tour-App - Demonstration: https://adityasudhakar.com/assets/media/sf-49-mile-tour.gif ### Vanna An open-source Python project for conversational analytics and natural-language access to data. - Topics: AI, data, analytics, text-to-SQL, Python, open source. - Repository: https://github.com/vanna-ai/vanna ### The Sly Llama A podcast and writing series about practical business and operating questions, including bookkeeping, international payments risk, software spend, product copy, and account-executive training. - Website: https://adityasudhakar.com/the-sly-llama/ ## Links - Website: https://adityasudhakar.com/ - GitHub: https://github.com/adityasudhakar - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityasudhakar/ - Email: mailto:adi@🌈.kz ## Updating this file This file is the canonical human-maintained source for Aditya's profile, LinkedIn-derived career facts, resume material, and selected project summaries used by the website chatbot and public agents. Future resume details can be added directly to the appropriate role or in a new section. Use the linked website and GitHub repositories for deeper or more current project details.