Anand is co-founder and CTO of Bito. Formerly, he was CTO at Eyeota which was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet for $165M in 2021. He led the company’s technical strategy, product innovation and spearheaded the development of Eyeota audience technology platform. Prior to joining Eyeota, Anand co-founded and was CTO of of PubMatic in 2006, which went public in 2020 (NASDAQ: PUBM). Anand was responsible for establishing the company’s technical vision, innovating on incredible technical complexity, and positioning PubMatic for future growth. He led the building of software systems handling over 300 billion ad auctions per day that generate over 100 terabytes of data per day across a global cloud network owned and provisioned by PubMatic. Prior to PubMatic, he held various engineering roles at Panta Systems, a high-performance computing startup led by the CTO of Veritas, and at Veritas and Symantec, where he worked on a variety of storage and backup products. Anand has seven patents to his name in systems software, storage software, advertising and application software. Anand also served on the IAB tech lab board of directors from 2015 to 2018 and is on the board of TruckX and an advisor to Lemma Technologies a DOOH startup and AmplifyReach a conversational automation platform. He holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University Of Pune, India.
This session will feature a roundtable discussion on the successful integration of AI in programming, examining its impact on roles, production pitfalls, and maintaining coding standards, while contrasting AI-powered code suggestions with autonomous AI coding.