Vijaysai Patnaik

Vijaysai Patnaik leads commercial products, forward-deployed engineering and go-to-market at Reflection. He previously led product and industry businesses at Applied Intuition and helped build Waymo’s autonomous-trucking and perception products, following roles at Google, Pepperfry, Accel and McKinsey.

Career

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Based in: San Francisco

Reflection

2026 — Present

Chief Business Officer

Applied Intuition

General Manager
2025 — 2026
Head of Product
Jan 2021 — Jan 2025
San Francisco, California, United States

Waymo

Product Lead, Autonomous Trucks
2017 — 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Product Lead, Perception AI
Jan 2016 — Jan 2019
San Francisco, California, United States

Google

2014 — 2016

Product Manager

Pepperfry

2012 — 2012

Business Operations & Strategy

Accel

2010 — 2012

Venture Capital

McKinsey

2008 — 2010

Management Consulting

Harvard Business School

MBA

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)

Bachelor's studies in electrical

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waymo.com

Product considerations for autonomous trucking

In this Waymo team discussion, he explains how truck dynamics, industry partnerships and system redundancy shape the product. The article preserves the different speakers’ contributions.

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Vijaysai Patnaik

Reflection

Applied Intuition

General Manager

Head of Product

Waymo

Product Lead, Autonomous Trucks

Product Lead, Perception AI

Google

Pepperfry

Accel

McKinsey

Harvard Business School

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)

Products & media

Product considerations for autonomous trucking

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