Vishal is a technology leader and computer scientist with nearly 15 years of combined research and software development experience.
 
Vishal is co-founder and CTO at LINK3D, an additive manufacturing workflow software provider which links design software with AM hardware to make additive manufacturing seamless and accessible. At LINK3D, Vishal is also harnessing the power of the Blockchain to protect users’ intellectual property rights for their 3D printing models and improving supply chain traceability for 3D printed parts. LINK3D was selected as a ‘FiReStarter Company’ that has previously featured Elon Musk and Michael Dell, among others. He is an invited speaker and panelists at 3D printing and Blockchain conferences.
 
In 2012, Vishal co-founded and is a Partner at Inncretech, a unique "startup as a service” company, which helps in de-risking the early stage development and release of MVP software. At Inncretech, Vishal helps startups develop cutting-edge technologies in healthcare, data science and analytics, security and blockchain-based applications.
 
Vishal co-founded Pintact which is a contact management app. He handled the execution of a publishing, content discovery platform and created another platform for consumers to make data-driven decisions. Vishal handled the technical execution of an ad-tech startup:www.incontrolads.com which involved meta-tagging of advertisement media real-time matching with user's preferences.
 
Previously, Vishal’s has software engineering experience at Cisco Systems and Motorola. Vishal was a computer scientist at NEC Labs and Columbia University. At NEC-Labs, Vishal worked on software-defined networking (OpenFlow), application dependency discovery and other data mining projects. At CU, Vishal did research on SIP, scalability architectures, presence aware location-based services. Visitwww.cs.columbia.edu/~vs2140 for more details.
 
Vishal has authored several approved US patents and research papers , and participated in top-tier conferences.