Prakash Vippa

Applied AI - Product Management - Software Engineering

I turn emerging AI capabilities into systems that work in the real world.

At Stanford GSB, I lead Generative AI initiatives, software and solution engineering teams, building helpful chatbots and AI powered applications. Previously, I helped scale Digital Commerce SaaS platforms, products, and global engineering organizations.

How I operate

Research to product

Translate emerging technical capabilities into applications, roadmaps, and production systems.

Technical leadership

Lead engineering and solution teams while staying close to architecture, tradeoffs, and execution.

Scale & operations

Build global teams and guide complex programs from early ambiguity through deployment and growth.

Human impact

Start with the people, workflows, and consequences surrounding the technology.

Selected work

AI applications for learning & research

2023–Present

Leading Generative AI initiatives; designed and deployed AI chatbots, course research applications while leading software and solution engineering teams that design, develop and manage GSB applications.

Stanford Graduate School of Business

SaaS platforms at global scale

2014–2022

Helped scale a digital commerce platform through orders of magnitude of growth, built engineering and solution engineering teams across six countries, and launched the platform in over a dozen new markets.

AppDirect

A product system from zero to one

2013–2014

As the first product manager, conceived a master data management system and integrated social data to build a 360-degree view of customer activity.

Big Air Studios

Research foundations in materials & devices

Earlier work

Researched, published, and built prototypes using novel electro-optical polymers, including photonic devices, batteries, and supercapacitors.

Applied research

Experience

Software Engineering

Stanford Graduate School of Business

2023–Present

Product & Technical Program Management

AppDirect

2014–2022

Product Management

Big Air Studios

2013–2014

Product Management

Oracle Corporation

2006–2012

About

I'm a curious engineer and product leader drawn to consequential technologies and the work required to make them genuinely useful. My career has moved between hands-on research, product strategy, engineering leadership, and global execution.

I've led product vision and roadmaps, introduced new products, integrated strategic acquisitions, and built teams across the United States, Canada, India, Argentina, Germany, and Australia.

Expertise

Applied Generative AI · AI product strategy · Software engineering leadership · Research applications · Technical program leadership · Cloud & distributed platforms · Enterprise AI adoption · Global team building

Education