Vikram Oberoi

About Vikram Oberoi

I studied CS at Stanford and I’ve built software for close to 20 years as a software engineer, tech lead, engineering manager, and startup executive.I\'ve consulted as a Fractional/Interim CTO and Product Engineer with seed-to-Series A startups across healthcare, e-commerce, and enterprise SaaS since early 2018.In 2024 I created citymeetings.nyc, a site that enables transparency in NYC\'s public proceedings using AI. It receives over monthly visitors and hundreds of daily users across NYC government, media, advocacy, and engaged citizens.You can read more about my work at https://vikramoberoi.com.

Experience

1. Creator & Owner

   Citymeetings.Nyc

   Feb 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US

   citymeetings.nyc breaks down every NYC council meeting into short, skimmable, and shareable segments same-day to a high standard of accuracy and coverage with AI & human oversight.The site gets over visitors a month and 100s of daily users across City Hall, City Council, government agencies, journalists, advocates, lobbyists, and engaged citizens.I use AI and software I\'ve built that places me as a “human in the loop\" to make this possible, which you can learn more about in the coverage, podcasts, and talks below.# PRESS\"Why Vikram Oberoi Is Every NYC Journalist\'s Favorite New Yorker\" by Hell Gate: https://hellgatenyc.com/vikram-oberoi-rules/An on-air interview with Spectrum NY1 News: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/CTV/2024/10/12/new-website-uses-ai-to-monitor-city-hall-meetings\"Who\'s Who in Emerging Tech\" by City & State NY: PODCASTSUsing AI to Bring Transparency to City Government with Vikram Oberoi, Thoughtbot\'s Giant Robots Smashing Into Giant Robots: https://podcast.thoughtbot.com/558Empowering Democracy with LLMs, Genevieve Hayes Consulting: https://valuedrivendatascience.com/46# TALKSA talk I gave at NYC School of Data 2024 on this work: https://vikramoberoi.com/posts/how-citymeetings-nyc-uses-ai-to-make-it-easy-to-navigate-city-council-meetings/

Education

• Stanford University

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Hbase
• Shell Scripting
• Python
• Algorithms
• Unix
• Analytics
• Software Engineering
• Hive
• Database Design
• Programming
• Big Data
• Data Mining
• Cloud Computing
• Linux
• Open Source
• Distributed Systems
• Hadoop
• Bash
• Web Applications