Summary
Charly Walther is a product leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling data- and AI-driven platforms, currently heading Drive, DoorDash’s first-party fulfillment product. He has led cross-functional teams across product, design, and marketing at high-growth companies—most recently expanding TaskUs’s offerings from AI services to global trust, safety, and autonomous-vehicle services while managing large, distributed orgs. Charly has founded and grown platforms from zero to hundreds of thousands of contributors (TaskVerse) and advised startups that spun into acquisitions (SiaSearch → Scale AI), showing a knack for turning early technical ideas into commercial products. His background includes hands-on autonomy product work at Uber ATG and building ML annotation SaaS at Lionbridge/Gengo, blending operational rigor with deep knowledge of human-in-the-loop ML systems. Based in New York, he pairs strategy and go-to-market experience with an uncommon track record of recruiting and scaling crowd-based workforces for AI customers.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Ethics, Politics, and Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University
English, German, Japanese, French, Russian