Aditya Sudhakar

Self-rising robot trained with reinforcement learning in MuJoCo. Custom AI-designed LEGO robot with build instructions and a complete parts list. Location-aware iOS audio tour for San Francisco’s 49-Mile Scenic Drive. 25 MuJoCo training runs for a LEGO-inspired biped; 11 learned to stand.

I'm energized by growing company revenue by owning customer relationships, and running experiments that accelerate sales.

For example, at my first job after Michigan, on the factory floor at Bosch… We made 3,000 steel diesel injectors a day on Mikron, Nakamura, Okuma, and Makino mills and lathes, with bore tolerances of ±25 microns and steel hardened to handle 2,500 bar. I'd be sent to meet with Mercedes, Volvo, Scania, and Iveco for quarterly reviews and to share how we were testing various automations to improve speed, cost, and quality.

Or at Moody’s Analytics, where we sold to Goldman Sachs… We also sold our bond and covenant database to Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Fidelity, and State Street. I'd meet with traders weekly to get feedback and explore new integrations or data-pack upsell opportunities.

Or at SenseiHub, my first venture… where Crocs was my first customer. I also then sold into engg teams at Siemens, Verizon, Porsche and others. I built a database of university labs using patents, papers, and funding data, with word2vec search to help (eg:) Crocs find U.S. labs working on rubber and plastics. In 2015, I remember Slack had just launched and so when two groups connected through SenseiHub, we would automatically create private Slack channels so they could collaborate. Raised funding and built a team.

Or at my most recent venture Vanna AI (20K github ⭐)... where GCP CEs were selling Vanna to $B prospects as the cherry on the BigQuery cake as they woo'd them away from competing clouds. Between just my co-founder and I, we supported many of the Fortune 100 and thousands of users daily.

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