Hi, I am Pooja.

Product Leader · Meta Reality Labs

I build products. I stay curious — working at the frontier of AI, where the boundaries between the physical and digital world are being redrawn.

At Meta Reality Labs, I'm a Product Leader building photorealistic avatars in deep partnership with world-class Research and Engineering organizations — turning award-winning research into shipped product. Our work combines multimodal generative video models and state-of-the-art LLMs to redefine how people connect across phones, AI glasses, and VR/AR. Our breakthroughs in Photorealistic Avatars (Codec Avatars) have been featured in The Verge, TechCrunch, and CNN as defining the next era of AI-driven social presence.

Before Meta, I launched hardware and software products at Amazon that reached millions of homes — including Alexa Smart Home devices and the Echo Show — and served as Chief Product Officer at Providence, where I brought AI into one of America's largest health systems with a deliberate focus on responsible AI deployment.

I build across the full stack — AI models, cloud services, developer platforms, 0→1 hardware and software — drawn to problems where model performance alone isn't enough, where data quality, latency, and human behavior are just as critical as the underlying technology.

I mentor builders, stay hands-on through experiments, and write about what I learn along the way.

If any of this resonates — reach out.