Prashant Shishodia
FounderFounder at Kalpa Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedKalpa Labs · YC
About
Prashant Shishodia led machine learning infrastructure at Google, working on systems that processed billions of queries monthly. He now leads product development at Kalpa Labs focused on speech models.
Prashant Shishodia @pshishodiaa
very proud of the team for building this with so much love & care. Generalist audio models will unlock an entirely new set of creative use cases, and give developers more levers of control. https://t.co/Z6VzDxfVaR
Jul 30, 2026 · ♥ 12
Prashant Shishodia @pshishodiaa
saw an outlier batch for the first time. https://t.co/DvnhHnVjcw
Jul 6, 2026 · ♥ 2
Prashant Shishodia @pshishodiaa
glm bros please distill fable to the max asap. i don't think they're going to continue it.
Jul 2, 2026
Founder at Kalpa LabsYC F25
Intro paths
Prashant went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Kalpa Labs's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Prashant can intro founders to Kalpa Labs's investors below.
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Experience
- Kalpa Labs (YC F25)Co-Founder / CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleSenior Software Engineer2025Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- GoogleSoftware Engineer III2023 — 2025Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- GoogleSoftware Engineer III2023Bengaluru
- GoogleSoftware Engineer II2021 — 2023Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- UberSDE Internship2020Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Education
- Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering2017 — 2021
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Same school
Also attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur75
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Also worked at Google1,078
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Also worked at Uber251
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