Himanshu Gahlot

Himanshu Gahlot is Vice President of Engineering at Apollo.io, where he leads the company's Machine Learning, Data, and vertical product initiatives. Overseeing 100+ engineers across multiple international offices, he drives innovation in sales intelligence and engagement technology through next-generation AI capabilities. Under his leadership, Apollo has achieved 500% year-over-year growth in AI platform adoption and deployed solutions that help sales teams book meetings 42% more frequently. Prior to Apollo, Himanshu served as CTO and Co-founder of Storepath AI (acquired), where he created AI-powered solutions for eCommerce sellers, including early commercial applications of GPT-3. His experience includes engineering leadership roles at Amazon Music, where he built the Data Science Platform team and worked with early AWS products, and at A9.com, where he developed search relevance systems processing millions of queries daily. He began his career at CBS Interactive, implementing machine learning for content classification and ad targeting. Himanshu holds a Master's degree in Computational Data Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor's in Information Technology from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology. He currently serves as an advisor to StretchDollar and acts as a Venture Scout for Fika Ventures, supporting the next generation of B2B software startups.