The person behind Veera.ai
Selvan Senthivel
Founder & Chief Technologist · Seattle, Washington
Twenty years shipping at the layers AI depends on — silicon, kernels, medical devices, cloud — and the models on top since 2017. Two exits. Five patents. Two papers. The person you talk to is the person who does the work.
The record
GE HealthCare
Chief Technologist
- AI roadmap across 400+ engineers and scientists; the AI platform behind new software products.
- $100M+ in new revenue from new AI products — Sales AI, Service AI, Commercial AI.
Symbl.ai
CTO — through its acquisition by Invoca
- Led the pivot to a multimodal AI platform, the cloud migration, and the company through a strategic acquisition.
Amazon — AWS
Principal SDE / ML leadership
- Led design and implementation of AWS Comprehend Medical — launched at re:Invent 2018. Two patents.
- Protein language models at 32B–100B parameters; genome sequencing pipelines from days to hours.
- NFL real-time win predictions used live on NBC and ESPN broadcasts; frame-by-frame content analysis for Prime Video.
Nordstrom
Technical lead
- Cloud migration framework: hundreds of microservices moved in months, costs cut 75%.
Spacelabs
Technical lead
- Patient monitors built from scratch — 70% of emerging-market revenue, 2013–2015.
- Clinical analysis SaaS suite (Cerner and Epic integrations) — over 30% of licensing revenue, 2009–2016.
Microsoft · Sipera · Intel
Kernel and hardware years
- Windows CE kernel at Microsoft; Linux-kernel VoIP security at Sipera (acquired by Avaya, founding engineer); network processors at Intel.
Education: MS, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Portland State University. Papers: Comprehend Medical (ICMLA 2019) · Hospital mortality prediction (CoRR 2018). Advisory: AI2 Incubator (Allen Institute for AI) · Great Point Ventures — technical diligence.
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