Demo Day
Demo Day - A showcase of exceptional founders and builders from AI Valley
- Date
- Time
- 5:30 PM (America/Los_Angeles)
About this demo day
Event details
- Short, focused product demos (5–7 minutes each)
- Live feedback and guidance from VCs, founders, and senior operators
- Execution-focused Q&A on product, architecture, and go-to-market
- Curated audience of VCs and top operators across the Bay Area
- Invite-only or application-based selection to maintain quality
Our Hosts
Judges, VCs & Operators
Meet the experienced founders, investors, and operators providing feedback and guidance.
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Pratyusha Singaraju
Senior Software Engineer
@ Netflix
Thought Leader in Software Engineering - Disrupting how content is scaled!
- Architects backend services powering Netflix's search, recommendations, and ratings systems
- Former Microsoft Bing data team member, building knowledge graphs for web-scale search
- Expert in content intelligence, knowledge graphs, and large-scale distributed systems
Pratik Raichura
Principal Software Engineer
@ AWS AI/ML
Building the future of GenAI at AWS Bedrock
- Principal Engineer leading AWS Bedrock, the platform powering foundational LLMs
- 11+ years at AWS building AI/ML products including AWS Lex chatbot platform
- Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 6.0 Programmer with expertise in distributed systems
Shubham Anandani
Engineering Manager
Carnegie Mellon MS, Driving AI strategy at LinkedIn
- Delivered LinkedIn's first GenAI image use case, generating $5M ARR revenue
- Led Profile Premium strategy with 30+ stakeholders, boosting $17M in revenue
- Leads two full-stack engineering teams (11 ICs) across SF and Seattle
Rohan Benkar
Software Architect – Founding AI Team
@ Coursera
Ohio State MS, 15+ years architecting scalable AI platforms
- Founding member of Coursera's first AI engineering team, building AI-native learning experiences
- Led development of Labs platform from inception to scale, supporting millions of learners
- Drove launch of flagship GenAI-based Coach Dialogue feature at Coursera
Vaibhav Mahindroo
Lead Member of Technical Staff
@ Salesforce
Northeastern MS, Core architect of Salesforce AgentForce
- Core architect of Salesforce AgentForce, building AI-native enterprise agents from the ground up
- Built Token Streaming Engine, Multi-Language Support, and Core Reasoning Infrastructure at Salesforce
- Led AI chatbot initiative at Drift leveraging OpenAI for lead qualification
Harsh Ranjan
Senior Software Engineer
@ Snowflake
Stony Brook MS, Ex-Microsoft, Ex-Facebook
- Building data governance and data quality foundations at Snowflake's Horizon Catalog
- Former Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Office365 Data Governance & Privacy
- Built real-time trend and virality detection systems at Facebook
Pratik Agarwal
Sr. Software Engineer, Infrastructure
@ Figma
Penn State MS, Ex-AWS DynamoDB, Ex-Momento
- Sr. Software Engineer at Figma working on databases and AI compute infrastructure
- Led performance initiatives at Momento achieving ~40% throughput improvement and 10x latency reduction
- Firsthand involved in launching AWS DynamoDB on-demand, a milestone in managed databases
Ramazan Rakhmatullin
AI Researcher & Startup Advisor
@ University of Waterloo
ICPC North America Champion, Ex-Cognition (Devin AI), IOI Senior Judge
- Scaled first business to $1M ARR as a serial entrepreneur
- Early work at Cognition, creators of Devin AI
- ICPC North America Champion in competitive programming
Santoshkalyan (Tosh) Rayadhurgam
Senior Engineering Leader
@ Meta
12+ years at Meta, Lyft, Amazon Lab126, Active AI Angel Investor
- Senior Engineering Leader at Meta leading Foundational AI teams in Monetization
- Built state-of-the-art AI models serving billions of users globally
- Expert in productionizing LLMs and scaling generative AI from POC to production
Ready to showcase your work?
Get direct feedback from VCs and operators, and showcase your AI product to the Bay Area ecosystem.