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# Vinay Krishnaswamy on Tal

## Headline

Composer and Guitarist \| Software Engineer

## About

In Technology: Strong leadership skills\. Experience in building software in all portions of the stack \-\- OS, distributed systems, app platforms, end user apps, mobile applications\. Strong history of innovation \- 47 patents filed on behalf of Microsoft\. Managed large organizations\. Experience in both creation/selling of vision as well as strong execution to build and ship great software\. In Music: Accomplished musician and composer with published music and recordings

## Location

Woodinville

## AI stack

deepmind

## Work experience

Director of Technology and Music Composer at Khumbu Ventures, Jul 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 4 mos, Duvall, Washington, United States

Co founder and CEO at Zaprica, Nov 2011 \- Feb 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bellevue, Principal co founder of startup\. Formulated core vision, created prototypes and raised angel and subsequently, Series A funding\. Created early version of product with a team in India, Canada, and Bellevue that garnered a lot of interest and a strong advisory board\.

Founder and Owner at Imaginesoft, Nov 2007 \- Apr 2022 · 14 yrs 6 mos, Greater Seattle Area, Creating Applications for the Mac, iOS \(iPhone, iPad \) using Cocoa\. Consulting on any platform Most recently Consulted deeply on Yuzu \(https://www\.yuzu\.com\) at Barnes and Noble for very specific advanced technology in C\+\+ and Objective C for iOS and Windows from August 2013\-March2014\. Consulted with Microsoft Research as an architect on the Rich Interactive Narratives project\. Patent awarded for work\. iRhythmic in the iOS app store is an application I shipped based on my personal experience with music and consulting with other professional musicians and educators\. In a crowded field reviews indicate it to be the best in it's class\.

Development Manager at Microsoft, 2001 \- 2004 · 3 yrs, Development for Digital rights management systems\. Initially my team developed ground breaking rights management technology for eBooks that started as a research project in Microsoft research\. This involved both desktop and windows phone\. Subsequent to a successful ebooks implementation, Much of the work culminated in Information rights management which was formulated by myself and others from a seed idea to protect office documents in the enterprise\. An initial prototype with Microsoft office built by my team from that seed idea is now a billion dollar business for Microsoft\.

Development manager at Microsoft, Jan 2000 \- Mar 2005 · 5 yrs 3 mos, Development manager for Windows Security\. Managed large disparate team of all Core Windows Security products including Encrypted File System, Identity management, and Digital Rights Management\.

Dev Manager & Architect at Microsoft, Sep 1997 \- Nov 2007 · 10 yrs 3 mos, Development manager and Architect for a startup group and project with the goal of empowering education through technology\. Part of my desire to impact the world positively through technology where I worked earlier in Ebooks and later in education\.

Member of Technical Staff at Sun Microsystems/Sunsoft Distributed Objects, Jan 1996 \- Sep 1997 · 1 yr 9 mos

## Education

M\.S\., Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University

International School, Makati

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