# Gargi Kand

> Co-founder & CPO @ Vently | Community Builder | Stanford StartX F25 | Tech, Startup, VC Events

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gargikand

I build communities.

## Work Experience
### Co-Founder & CPO @ Vently
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
50k newsletter, 200+ events hosted and 14k Instagram followers with 1M+ monthly impressions.

"Consumer Social Network Effects with Vently" Featured at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, Co-host of Quarter Century GigaParty with 2k+ founders, investors, tech influencers, Co-host of NBA All Star Weekend. 

Backed by Entrepreneur Ventures, Context Ventures, exited founders, and angel investors.

### Chief Operating Officer @ Women Founders Bay
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Currently only less than 2% of funding going to women, Women Founders Bay aims to decrease the funding gap.

### Senior-Software Product Manager @ AT&T
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
ANDI Virtual Assistant Google CCAI Program

- Leads a team of 30+ to drive the end-to-end conversational experience for end users for over 40+ intents using Google's Vertex AI / Generative AI technology to power the self-service for 10 million+ customers

### Software Engineer @ AT&T
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Ramon, California, United States

### Head of Growth @ Truffle
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

### Founder @ Global Bookathon
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020
Non-profit intended to collect and donate used books to underprivileged children across the world. Two thousand five hundred books were donated to Akshar Bharati in India and another 1,000 were donated to Native American children living in Hollister, California.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Qualcomm
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Diego
Developed test case automation programs in Python to replace an open-source test case management tool (Testlink) used by 75 employees
Evaluated five competing Test Management Tools to eliminate performance issues during daily Jenkins builds of over 10,000 test cases
Used Docker containers to effectively test tools on different servers for increased optimization using API automation agents

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Purdue University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Teaching Assistant for CS 193: Freshman Tools - teaching skills not taught in CS classes such as GitHub, terminal, etc

### Software Engineering Intern - Smart Communities Team @ Verizon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, CA
Developed Splunk-based Automated Dashboard for detecting and alerting failures in IOT data from Smart City Grid  
Implemented in Splunk using python based rules as well as machine learning 
This framework resulted in quick alerts for corrective action which greatly reduced manual checking

### Software Engineering Intern @ Qwardo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, Washington
Created an interactive recommendation-oriented chat bot using Node.js and Luis.ai (Natural Language Processing) and integrated the Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft Azure Framework, and used a RESTful API. My QwardoBot helps users find documents by giving snippets of the documents that closely match the keywords.

### Graphic Design Intern @ AdMaxim Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Santa Clara, CA
Worked in the Creative and Client Services Department. Designed mobile ads for LG G4, Vintage Fashion Showcase, FAB Shaker, and Co-operative Shaker.  I developed and published ads as well as overlooked campaigns. I worked with Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML5, Java, and Word Press.


## Education
### StartX

### Bachelor's degree in Major: Computer Science  |  Minor: Management
Purdue University

### Product Management Certificate in Product Management
Product School

### Nanodegree in UI/UX
Udacity


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kandgargi
- Portfolio: https://vently.com

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Source: https://flows.cv/gargikand
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/gargikand/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-18