# Aman Singla

> Aman Singla is the co-founder and CEO of MarcoPolo, an enterprise AI infrastructure company that grew out of Immersa. A computer scientist trained at IIT Delhi and Georgia Tech, he moved from Silicon Graphics to Atheros and Qualcomm, helped found and scale Plume's cloud platform, spent time as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Mayfield, and co-founded Plaksha University. His career follows a consistent pattern: find the infrastructure bottleneck between an ambitious technology and practical use, then build the layer that makes the system work.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at MarcoPolo
- **Organizations:** MarcoPolo, Immersa, Plaksha University, Mayfield, Plume, Qualcomm, Atheros Communications, Silicon Graphics
- **Education:** BTech, Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, PhD, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Helped Atheros expand from an approximately 30-person startup into a company with more than $1 billion in revenue before its acquisition by Qualcomm., Co-founded Plume and helped transform home networking hardware into a cloud-based, data-driven software platform used by internet service providers., Led engineering work at Plume that supported data infrastructure processing tens of billions of operations per day.

## Career timeline

- **1997-2000** — Worked as a senior member of technical staff at Silicon Graphics.
- **2000-2006** — Served as Director of Software Engineering at Atheros Communications after joining the company at roughly 30 people.
- **2006-2013** — Served as Vice President of Engineering for Atheros's consumer business; Atheros was acquired by Qualcomm in 2011.
- **2013-2015** — Served as Vice President of Software at Qualcomm.
- **2015-2020** — Co-founded Plume and served as CTO, helping build its cloud-based smart-home services platform.
- **2020** — Joined Mayfield as an entrepreneur-in-residence and became part of Plaksha University's founding community.
- **2021-2024** — Co-founded and led Immersa, a business-user-oriented data intelligence platform.
- **2024-present** — Co-founded and leads MarcoPolo, the evolution of Immersa focused on governed infrastructure for AI access to enterprise data.

## Achievements

- Helped Atheros expand from an approximately 30-person startup into a company with more than $1 billion in revenue before its acquisition by Qualcomm.
- Co-founded Plume and helped transform home networking hardware into a cloud-based, data-driven software platform used by internet service providers.
- Led engineering work at Plume that supported data infrastructure processing tens of billions of operations per day.
- Co-founded Immersa and later MarcoPolo to build data and context infrastructure for enterprise AI.
- Is a founder and donor in Plaksha University's founding community.
- Is named as an inventor on multiple Plume patent filings concerning cloud-based Wi-Fi control and optimization.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — MarcoPolo published a webinar featuring Singla and co-founder Aseem Chandra on giving AI a governed workspace for enterprise data.
- **2026-05** — MarcoPolo published field notes from conversations at AI Dev SF 2026 about enterprise AI bottlenecks in data access and security.
- **2025-08** — Singla spoke during Zuora's AI Week about context management for LLM reasoning.

## Links

- Website: https://marcopolo.dev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/singla
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/immersadata
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN7FH754NjM

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Last updated: 2026-08-17