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Anupreet Walia

San Mateo, CA · anupreet.walia@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/anupreetwalia

Summary

Technical co-founder and engineering executive. 17+ years building AI products from scratch and scaling teams and platforms. As CTO & Co-Founder of Brevian AI, I set the product vision, designed the architecture, and built a production knowledge graph and multi-agent LLM system for enterprise sales intelligence. Scaled engineering orgs from founding teams to 100+ engineers across venture-backed startups (Sequoia, a16z, Y Combinator). Hands-on background in AI/ML systems, knowledge graphs, RAG, and agentic AI.

Experience

CTO & Co-Founder · Brevian (Felicis)

10/2024 – Present
San Mateo, CA

AI sales intelligence platform. Knowledge graphs + multi-agent LLMs help sales teams prep for calls, get real-time guidance, and learn from every conversation.

  • Set product vision and strategy for a new category of sales intelligence built on structured knowledge, not call transcription. Positioned Brevian against incumbents like Gong and Chorus.
  • Owned product roadmap end-to-end. Shipped four products: Meeting Prep, Live Assist, Sales Coaching, and CRM Updates, shaped by customer discovery, competitive analysis, and direct market feedback.
  • Built Brevian's Knowledge Engine from scratch: a structured graph connecting products, features, pain points, stakeholders, objections, and deal context, enabling multi-hop reasoning that outperforms standard RAG.
  • Designed the multi-agent LLM architecture: three agent types (Chat, Meeting Intelligence, Intelligence), 10+ orchestrated tools, recursive tool calling, and context management across OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, and GPT-4o/5.1.
  • Built the GTM-ready product surface: enterprise integrations (Gong, Salesforce, Google Drive, Notion), onboarding flows, and a product-led growth experiment (Pipeline Health Workspace).
  • Stood up engineering culture, principles, hiring processes, and a leveling ladder (L3–L8) drawn from Stripe and Netflix.

VP of Engineering · Baseten (Conviction)

03/2024 – 09/2024
San Francisco, CA

ML infrastructure startup. Platform for deploying and serving AI models at scale.

  • Led cross-functional teams shipping developer experience and model observability features on TRT-LLM and vLLM with a Python backend on Kubernetes.
  • Drove SOC2 certification, launched a self-hosted enterprise solution, and tightened product operations across the org.

VP of Engineering · Preset (backed by a16z, Redpoint)

02/2021 – 02/2024
San Mateo, CA

Cloud analytics platform built on Apache Superset. Enterprise data exploration and visualization. Raised $52.5M.

  • Launched three products (SaaS, Hybrid Cloud, and Embedded Platform) with focus on infrastructure performance, cost efficiency, and enterprise compliance.
  • Scaled engineering from 20 to 60+ engineers across frontend, platform, data engineering, and infrastructure functions without slowing delivery.
  • Owned product and engineering strategy; shipped features while keeping infrastructure scalable, SOC2-compliant, and secure across multi-tenant cloud environments.

Director of Engineering / Interim VPE · Snapdocs (Sequoia, Y Combinator)

11/2018 – 02/2021
San Francisco, CA

Digital mortgage closing platform. Series D, raised $47M+ from Sequoia, F-Prime, and Y Combinator.

  • Grew engineering from 11 to 100 engineers. Built frontend, platform, data engineering, data science, and infrastructure teams from scratch. Cut mean time to recovery and reduced regressions.
  • Ran QA, DevOps, Data Science, Engineering, and Core Platform, keeping systems stable and scalable through rapid growth.
  • Built standardized hiring frameworks, technical interview processes, and evaluation rubrics across the org.

Engineering Manager · Helix (KPCB, DFJ)

11/2016 – 11/2018
San Carlos, CA

Personal genomics platform. Series B, raised $320M.

  • Started the mobile engineering team and shipped Helix's first native iOS app; built a distributed cross-functional team.
  • Led the platform team building an iOS SDK, marketplace APIs (React, Go, Swift), and an OAuth2 auth framework so partners could build products on top of genomic data.

Tech Lead · Microsoft

2015 – 2016
San Francisco, CA
  • Led a team building Office prototypes with machine learning (Swift, C/C++, Python, Azure ML). Worked with Microsoft Research on an iOS app using MS Band biometric data for stress detection.
  • Selected for Microsoft's High Potential (HiPo) program, Microsoft Bench (2015).

Computer Scientist · Adobe Systems

2009 – 2015
San Francisco, CA
  • Built full-stack applications, APIs, and data pipelines for Typekit (RoR, Sinatra, JavaScript, Redis, MySQL, Hadoop, Hive).
  • Optimized Flash Player and AIR runtime for Android, focusing on battery, memory, and rendering performance.

Education

M.S., Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology. IRA Hardin Fellowship Recipient.

Patents

Genomic Network Service / Cross-Network Genomic Data User Interface (Helix). See all patent numbers →

Technical depth

AI/ML Systems: LLM orchestration, multi-agent architectures, knowledge graphs, RAG/GraphRAG, vector search (OpenSearch), NER, agentic tool-use patterns, prompt engineering, TRT-LLM, vLLM.

Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Python, Go, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, Azure ML, AWS, GCP, SOC2, CI/CD.

Leadership: Scaled orgs from 10 to 100+ engineers, 0-to-1 product vision and strategy, category creation, engineering ladder design, hiring frameworks, cross-functional product/engineering/GTM leadership.