# Vin Sharma

> Vin Sharma is the co-founder and CEO of Vijil, a Menlo Park startup building trust infrastructure that helps enterprises deploy AI agents that are reliable, secure, and safe. He spent roughly three decades in AI, data, cloud, operating systems, and security, most recently as GM and Director of Engineering at AWS AI, where he worked on the deep-learning engines behind Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock. Earlier he ran a division at Intel that built a bespoke datacenter for BMW's autonomous-driving research and held product and engineering roles at Hewlett-Packard across open source, big data, cloud, and Linux. Founded in 2023, Vijil has raised $23 million, counts SmartRecruiters, DigitalOcean, and DuploCloud among its users, and was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2025.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Vijil
- **Organizations:** Vijil, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Intel, Hewlett-Packard
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Vijil, which has raised $23 million total, Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in the 2025 Cool Vendors in Agentic AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (TRiSM), Recognized on CB Insights' Most Innovative AI Startups list for 2025

## Career timeline

- **1995** — Began his career developing automated red-team tests for trusted UNIX systems
- **2000s** — Held product and engineering roles at Hewlett-Packard across open source, big data, cloud, and Linux
- **2010s** — Started a division at Intel that built a bespoke datacenter for BMW's autonomous-driving R&D
- **2018-2023** — GM and Director of Engineering at AWS AI, working on deep learning in Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock
- **2023** — Co-founded Vijil with fellow AWS AI leaders to build trust infrastructure for AI agents
- **2024** — Vijil emerged from stealth with $6M seed funding from Mayfield and Gradient Ventures
- **2025** — Vijil raised $17M led by BrightMind Partners and was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI TRiSM
- **2026** — Vijil launched a platform enabling AI agents to adapt to attacks and failures

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Vijil, which has raised $23 million total
- Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in the 2025 Cool Vendors in Agentic AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (TRiSM)
- Recognized on CB Insights' Most Innovative AI Startups list for 2025
- Contributed to 11 AWS AI services and roughly 30 products over his career
- Named on 10 patents and author of 5 papers
- Built the deep-learning engines behind Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock as an AWS engineering leader
- Led an Intel division that built a bespoke datacenter for BMW's autonomous-driving research

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Vijil launched a platform enabling AI agents to adapt to attacks and failures
- **2025-11** — Vijil raised $17M led by BrightMind Partners and was named a Gartner Cool Vendor
- **2024-07** — Vijil emerged from stealth with $6M seed funding from Mayfield and Gradient Ventures

## Links

- Website: https://vijil.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciphr
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/cphrtxt.bsky.social

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Last updated: 2026-07-24