Sal Arora

About Sal Arora

With over three decades of engineering and product management expertise, I\'ve spearheaded initiatives driving enterprise-level technical advancements and successful startup exits. My journey includes a decade at Microsoft, where I contributed to groundbreaking multi-screen video platforms. As the founder of Nectar9, I engineered solutions in cross-channel marketing, culminating in a successful acquisition by Tailwind. Over the last decade, I’ve developed and launched several projects that use computational linguistics/NLP, and more recently LLMs/AI to solve underlying complex business problems.

Experience

1. Co-founder and SVP, Head of Gen Ai Engineering

   Kanza Ai

   Feb 2025 — Present

   Building the compute and AI infrastructure behind Kanza AI\'s clinical reasoning platform — proprietary large-scale language models architected for deep, multi-step diagnostic reasoning. Lead engineering efforts spanning distributed training and fine-tuning of 70B/120B+ parameter models, multi-node GPU orchestration across Google Cloud A3/G4 infrastructure, and high-throughput clinical inference pipelines.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  BA, Computer Science

  1991 — 1995

Skills

• Mobile Devices
• Agile Web Development
• Competitive Analysis
• Start-Ups
• Vod
• Software Project Management
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Product Marketing
• Integration
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Product Development
• Enterprise Software
• Business Development
• Program Management
• Mobile Applications
• Strategy
• Digital Media
• Software Design
• Iptv
• Strategic Partnerships
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Cloud Computing
• User Experience
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Product Management