SONALI PATTNAIK

Sonali Pattnaik is the CTO and Co-founder of Lighthouz AI, an artificial intelligence software startup currently based in San Francisco, California. At Lighthouz AI, a seven-employee company backed by Y Combinator in its Summer 2024 cohort, she leads the development of generative AI systems designed to automate freight bill audits, accounts payable, and enterprise procurement processes. Prior to founding her current venture, Pattnaik served as a Lead AI Engineer at both Progressive Insurance and Halliburton, where she specialized in building production-grade machine learning models for unstructured data. She holds multiple United States patents and numerous academic publications, having previously completed her Master of Science degree in engineering at the University of Washington. Her current focus centers on deploying scalable machine learning architectures to solve complex operational challenges within the global supply chain and logistics sectors.