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Vinay Kakade

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Founder at Infino

Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

FoundedInfino

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About

Vinay Kakade is Co-Founder and CTO at Infino AI, with over 19 years of experience spanning individual contributor and management roles in AI/ML, distributed systems, search, information retrieval, and databases. He previously built the Machine Learning Platform at Lyft, led the development of AWS Elasticsearch Service (now OpenSearch Service) at Amazon, and built the distributed search engine for Amazon retail. He also founded FinitePaths, a social Q&A platform that was acquired by Lyft.

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AIN VenturesNew York · $500K – $1M checksBetter CapitalSanta Clara · $5K – $100K checks

Co-founders at Infino

AMAsif Makhani
Asif MakhaniFounder

Experience

  1. Infino AICo-Founder and CTOcurrent2023 — present
  2. College of Engineering PuneMember, Board of Studiescurrent2018 — presentPune, Maharashtra, India
  3. AbhyasuCo-founder2021 — 2024
  4. LyftAdvisor, Machine Learning2021 — 2022
  5. LyftCo-creator, Machine Learning Platform2017 — 2021
  6. FinitePaths Inc. (acq. by Lyft)Co-founder2015 — 2017Pune Area, India and San Jose, CA
  7. AmazonHead of Engineering, AWS Search2014 — 2015Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area
  8. A9.com (subsidiary of Amazon.com)Tech Lead and Manager, AWS Search2012 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
  9. A9.com (subsidiary of Amazon.com)Software Engineer, AWS Search2011 — 2012San Francisco Bay Area
  10. Yahoo!Research Engineer2006 — 2011San Francisco Bay Area
  11. A9.com (subsidiary of Amazon.com)Senior Software Engineer, Amazon Search2004 — 2006San Francisco Bay Area
  12. Veritas SoftwareAssociate Software Engineer2001 — 2002Pune Area, India
  13. College of Engineering PuneVisiting Faculty2001 — 2002Pune, Maharashtra, India

Skills & more

MapReduce12Hadoop39Python2Perl2Amazon Web Services (AWS)4REST3Distributed Systems29Information Retrieval12Scalability22Machine Learning6Big Data5Data Structures1
+7 moreTechnical LeadershipAlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringCloud ComputingData MiningNatural Language ProcessingSoftware Development

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Who is Vinay Kakade?
Vinay Kakade is Co-Founder and CTO at Infino AI, with over 19 years of experience spanning individual contributor and management roles in AI/ML, distributed systems, search, information retrieval, and databases. He previously built the Machine Learning Platform at Lyft, led the development of AWS Elasticsearch Service (now OpenSearch Service) at Amazon, and built the distributed search engine for Amazon retail. He also founded FinitePaths, a social Q&A platform that was acquired by Lyft.
Where does Vinay Kakade work?
Vinay Kakade is Founder of Infino.
What companies did Vinay Kakade found?
Vinay Kakade founded Infino.
Where did Vinay Kakade go to school?
Vinay Kakade studied at Stanford University (MS, Computer Science); COEP Technological University (Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering).

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