
A leader who combines technical excellence, problem solving and strategic thinking to align engineering goals & objectives with company mission to move forward vigorously while building consensus. Building ML, data and engineering teams to turn data into information; information into knowledge and insights; and valuable, actionable insights into better strategies. == Experience & Recognition == • Public Speaker • Startup Advisor • Multiple Hackathons Winner • Built & Led Teams to Success • Several Professional & Academic Awards == Interests == • New Product & Innovation Engineering • Machine Learning Applications • Data Science • Health Tech • Self-Driving Cars • Passion for Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship === Open Source === == Google Code: Software + Hardware Projects == 1. Tangible Images – Images that you can Touch & Feel 2. Air Mouse – Accelerometer based Human Computer Interface 3. MindSpace – Hacking Microsoft Kinect to build Motion Adaptive 3D Display Device 4. Video Codec Research: Fast Diamond Search – Block Based Motion Estimation & Compensation 5. ECG Synthesizer – Tunable, MultiLead ECG Synthesizer to Train Doctors & Test BioMedical Algos Hosted: https://code.google.com/u/manavkataria/ == GitHub: Web & Mobile Projects == 1. TalkLocal – Location Based Social Network 2. Atlas – Real-Time, Multiplayer, Word Chain Game based on Places of the world 3. Gist Inbox – Summarize Your Email Overload | Won Best Email Hack #Hack TX 4. JmblFrnd – Photo Memory & Jumble Game, User Stats | #FacebookWorldHack 5. FriendCircle – Personalization Heuristics to Rank and Cluster Friends | Won #YahooHackU 6. Self Driving Car – Computer Vision & Deep Learning Based Lane Detection, Vehicle Tracking & Control Hosted: https://github.com/manavkataria/
getcruise.com
ac.in
amazon.com
sasken.com
ti.com
orbitalinsight.com
ericsson.com
San Francisco Bay Area
Engineering Leader | End-to-End ML Infra
Cruise
• www.linkedin.com/company/getcruise
Apr 2025 - Present
Engineering Leader | Behaviors, Autonomy ML Infrastructure
Cruise
• www.linkedin.com/company/getcruise
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
Engineering Leader | Distributed Training and Inference, Machine Learning Infra
Cruise
• www.linkedin.com/company/getcruise
Jul 2022 - Jun 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
Investor, Mentor, Startup Advisor, Conference Speaker
Rize Ventures*
Jan 2012 - Present
Engineering Leader | Machine Learning, User Insights Platform
Amazon Web Services
• www.linkedin.com/company/amazon-web-services
Nov 2018 - Jul 2022
San Francisco Bay Area
personagraph.com
bell-labs.com