Vivaan Baid

Vivaan Baid is a founder and technology leader at Optifye, an industrial software company developing real-time shop-floor efficiency solutions. He previously attended Duke University, where he completed his undergraduate studies and earned academic degrees in both computer science and psychology. Baid was raised in a traditional industrial environment, growing up around his family's long-standing manufacturing company and gaining firsthand familiarity with complex assembly line operations from childhood. This early exposure to physical production environments informed his later professional trajectory, leading him to integrate modern software capabilities into legacy industrial workflows. At Optifye, he directly applies his technical expertise in computer vision to provide manufacturing supervisors with actionable data and automated oversight tools. Baid's current focus remains on leveraging advanced artificial intelligence to modernize factory operations, optimize assembly line efficiency, and solve operational bottlenecks in the global manufacturing sector.