Researcher · Engineer · Founder · Executive
Shivani Poddar
Founder and CEO at Wajo AI
Shivani Poddar founded Wajo, which is building AI agents that take practical tasks from a request through to completion. Before starting the company, she led engineering and research at Google DeepMind, helping bring frontier models into products, after earlier multimodal AI work at Meta.
Career & education
Current roleWajo AIApr 2026-presentFounder and CEO
Wajo AIApr 2026-presentPreviously
Google DeepMindMay 2024-Aug 2025Sr. Engineering Lead | Senior Staff AI Researcher
Meta2018-2021Software Engineer -> Tech Lead
Google DeepMindMay 2024-Aug 2025Meta2018-2021
IIIT Hyderabad
Carnegie Mellon UniversityWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
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