Time to Trust

Vijil shortens time-to-trust

Vijil shortens time-to-trust

Founded by senior technologists who built the deep learning services of Amazon SageMaker and Splunk SEAL, Vijil is helping organizations build and operate AI agents that humans can trust. Advised by professors and research scientists who pioneered deep learning and LLM security, we are committed to open innovation through research collaboration with academic partners and non-profit organizations, open-source contributions to relevant projects, and strategic alliances with industry partners who support open foundation models. Backed by legendary venture capital firms, the Vijil team is on a mission to build AI agents that are inherently reliable, secure, and safe.

Come join us.

Founded by senior technologists who built the deep learning services of Amazon SageMaker and Splunk SEAL, Vijil is helping organizations build and operate AI agents that humans can trust. Advised by professors and research scientists who pioneered deep learning and LLM security, we are committed to open innovation through research collaboration with academic partners and non-profit organizations, open-source contributions to relevant projects, and strategic alliances with industry partners who support open foundation models. Backed by legendary venture capital firms, the Vijil team is on a mission to build AI agents that are inherently reliable, secure, and safe.

Come join us.

Leadership

Leadership

Vin Sharma

Vin Sharma

Vin Sharma

Co-Founder & CEO

Co-Founder & CEO

Previously GM & Director of Engineering at Amazon SageMaker. 30y across AI/ML, Data, Cloud, OS, Security; 11 AWS AI services, 30 products, 10 patents, 5 papers

Previously GM & Director of Engineering at Amazon SageMaker. 30y across AI/ML, Data, Cloud, OS, Security; 11 AWS AI services, 30 products, 10 patents, 5 papers

Subho Majumdar, PhD

Subho Majumdar, PhD

Subho Majumdar, PhD

Co-Founder & Head of AI

Co-Founder & Head of AI

Responsible AI leader; 10y+ in data science; co-author Trustworthy ML (O'Reilly book); 40 papers, 20 patents; key contributor to OSS (Garak, AVID, AI Village)

Responsible AI leader; 10y+ in data science; co-author Trustworthy ML (O'Reilly book); 40 papers, 20 patents; key contributor to OSS (Garak, AVID, AI Village)

Zdravko Pantic

Zdravko Pantic

Zdravko Pantic

Co-Founder &
Head of Engineering

Co-Founder &
Head of Engineering

AWS AI senior leader; 20y in ML systems and graphics; led PyTorch, TensorFlow, and AWS SageMaker Training teams

AWS AI senior leader; 20y in ML systems and graphics; led PyTorch, TensorFlow, and AWS SageMaker Training teams

Radina Mihaleva

Radina Mihaleva

Radina Mihaleva

Head of Business Development

Head of Business Development

Previously COO at Astronomer; helped scale Lacework from $1M to $100M ARR; 20y GTM strategy & partnerships for cybersecurity; consulting and investment banking; Harvard alum

Previously COO at Astronomer; helped scale Lacework from $1M to $100M ARR; 20y GTM strategy & partnerships for cybersecurity; consulting and investment banking; Harvard alum

Our Team

Our Team

Pradeep Das

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Previously at Amazon Music, Oracle, and Viiv Labs; co-founder & CTO of Adya (acquired by Qualys). Passionate about designing and building large-scale ML systems with a focus on NLP/LLMs. Enjoys reading, hiking, cooking, & doing nothing.

Akrura Gordillo

Staff Software Engineer

Previously at Riva Health, Viiv Labs, Solvvy, and Polycom. Over 20 years of software engineering experience. Most recently, led threat modeling and cybersecurity analysis of medical device to prepare for FDA approval.
University of California, Berkeley

Leif Hancox-Li, Ph. D.

Senior Applied Scientist

Previously at CapitalOne, evaluating LLMs for company-wide use. Working in the field of responsible AI since 2019, including building explainability solutions, establishing responsible AI processes, and publishing interdisciplinary research at venues like FAccT. Tries to spend at least one week a year walking in the mountains.

Giuliana Gesto

Frontend Developer

UX/UI design and front-end developer, previously at bitlogic.io. Based in Cordoba, Argentina. Instituto Superior Politécnico de Córdoba.

Subaru Ueno

Appsec Engineer

Previously at Amazon, Oracle, and Accenture. Working on AI/ML security engineering since 2019. Most recently, led red-teaming for Amazon AI models. Indiana University

Varun Cherukuri

Software Development Engineer

Cloud infrastructure engineer. Most recently at MIST (acquired by Juniper), built the conversational interface to Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, designed to diagnose and resolve networking issues. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Anuj Tambwekar

Machine Learning Engineer

Previously at Microsoft. Research interest in trustworthy AI, ML for human safety, and autonomous vehicles.
University of Michigan

Vele Tosevski

Senior Applied Scientist

Senior Applied Scientist. Previously at Lorica Cybersecurity, designed and deployed privacy-preserving machine learning products; expertise in the use of fully-homomorphic encryption and trusted execution environment for LLMs. University of Toronto

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Applied Scientist or Software Developer

Advisors

Advisors

Leon Derczynski

LLM Security pioneer
Professor, ITU Copenhagen
Principal Scientist, Nvidia
Founder - Garak & Nemo Guardrails
Lead - OWASP LLM Top 10

Ruslan Salakhtudinov

Deep Learning pioneer
UPMC Professor of CS at CMU
Senior Fellow of CIFAR, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow,
Google Faculty Award, Nvidia Pioneers of AI award

Bratin Saha

Chief Product and Technical Officer, Digital Ocean
Former VP and GM, AWS AI

Joe Spisak

Product Director & Head of Generative AI Open Source, Meta
Previously Google, Amazon

© 2025 Vijil. All rights reserved.

© 2025 Vijil. All rights reserved.

© 2025 Vijil. All rights reserved.

© 2025 Vijil. All rights reserved.