# Seshu Ajjarapu

> Senior Director,  Applied AI | Google DeepMind

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/seshu

~30 years of multi-functional, multi-industry and multi-continent experience;  5 years of international experience with Google in Switzerland, Singapore and India.

Prior to Google, 3+ years at Intel in Portland, OR and 10+ years in automotive industry, primarily working for Ford in Dearborn, MI.

In my free time, I enjoy playing tennis & basketball with my kids, reading non-fiction and listening to South Indian classical and Sufi music.

## Work Experience
### Senior Director, Applied AI @ Google DeepMind
Jan 2025 – Present
We are building a multidisciplinary Applied AI Engineering team that will serve Google products and external lighthouse enterprise customers to push the boundaries of what's possible with Google DeepMind's AI advances.

### Senior Director, Engineering & Product @ Google DeepMind
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
At DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, product managers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in AI.

We work closely with Google and other experts to find ways for our advances to benefit society.
So far, our systems have shown how they can save energy, identify eye disease, accelerate science, and improve Google products used across the world.

### Advisor & Non-executive Director @ IDOVEN
Jan 2021 – Present | Madrid, Spain

### Advisor @ Muon Space
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Advisor @ BLK SHP, Inc. (Black Sheep)
Jan 2025 – Present | Oakland, California, United States

### Advisor @ Marvis Inc.
Jan 2024 – Present | Victoria, Seychelles

### Advisor @ EndoFold
Jan 2025 – Present

### Advisor @ Converge
Jan 2023 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Senior Director, Lyft Level 5 @ Lyft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led the Level 5, Lyft's self-driving initiative Fleet Operations and Prototype Engineering

### Principal, Mergers & Acquisitions @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Notable Acquisitions: Skybox, Nest, DeepMind and Titan Aerospace
Divestiture: Terra Bella to Planet Labs

### Senior Manager, Resource Allocation @ Google
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

### Senior Manager, Profitability & Planning, Asia-Pacific @ Google
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
3-year expat assignment, based in Singapore and India

### Senior Operations/Finance Manager, EMEA Engineering & Product Management @ Google
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
2-year expat assignment, based in Zurich, Switzerland;

### Strategic Portfolio Manager, Technology Pathfinding @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2003 – Jan 2007
Responsible for prioritization of longer term cutting-edge technology investments

### Manager, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management [Visteon] @ Ford Motor Company
Jan 2000 – Jan 2003

### Product Design Lead, Interior Systems [Visteon] @ Ford Motor Company
Jan 1998 – Jan 2000
Responsible for designing instrument panels, radios, CD players for Escort, Taurus, Explorer and Windstar vehicles.

### Manager, Applications Engineering @ Ansys, Inc.
Jan 1993 – Jan 1998


## Education
### MBA in Corporate Strategy & General Management
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

### MS in Mechanical Engineering
West Virginia University

### BS in Mechanical Engineering
Acharya Nagarjuna University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/seshu-ajjarapu

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Last updated: 2026-04-13