Charles Zhou leads engineering at Profound, the AI search visibility platform backed by Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and Sequoia. As a founding engineer turned Head of Engineering, he's built the infrastructure that helps Fortune 500 brands understand how they appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI answer engines. Under his technical leadership, Profound processes billions of search events daily, providing companies with unprecedented visibility into the AI-driven future of search. The company has grown from pre-seed to series B in just one year. Charles is scaling Profound's engineering organization while building the technical foundations for the company's rapid expansion. Based in New York, he's an active voice in the city's tech community on how AI is fundamentally reshaping search and discovery.