Sumanyu Sharma

Sumanyu Sharma is a highly driven entrepreneur and AI expert, co-founding Hamming AI to address critical reliability and safety issues in AI voice agents. His commitment to 'outworking anyone else' has been a guiding principle throughout his career, evident from his early internship at FutureAdvisor to his current role leading a Y Combinator-backed startup focused on a challenging niche within AI. hamming+4

His expertise spans data science and software engineering, with a strong background in building data products and scaling AI solutions. At Tesla, he was a Senior Staff Data Scientist who scaled an AI-powered sales program to generate hundreds of millions annually, and at Citizen, he quadrupled Monthly Active Users by leading data efforts, demonstrating his ability to drive significant impact through AI and data strategy. deepgram+1

Sumanyu is a proponent of ethical and reliable AI, particularly in voice interactions. His experience at Citizen, where he dealt with transcribing 911 calls, highlighted the importance of trusted voice agents, which directly influenced his mission at Hamming AI to ensure voice AI systems are accurate, hallucination-free, and dependable for high-stakes applications. deepgram+1

A graduate of the University of Waterloo's Systems Design Engineering program (Dean's List), Sumanyu's academic background included research in medical image search. This early exposure to applying AI to complex problems, combined with a robust engineering education, laid the foundation for his career at the intersection of AI, data, and product development. uwaterloo+1