Shalini Govil-Pai is a Contributor at Grit Daily. She is currently GM and head of AndroidTV. Under her leadership, she has grown AndroidTV global partnerships across pay TV operators, smart TVs, and content partners including Netflix and Amazon Prime. She previously served as senior director at YouTube, where she headed up technology solutions to help creators grow global reach. She has also led product for Adwords and GoogleTV, and was awarded the prestigious Google Operating Committee Award. Prior to Google, Shalini was technical director at Pixar Animation, where she led efforts for the first entirely CGI-animated blockbuster feature "Toy Story," and for "A Bug’s Life."She has written two internationally-published books in computer graphics, "Principles of Computer Graphics" and "Learning Computer Graphics"Shalini has a BS and MS in Computer Science, and was conferred Distinguished Alumni from her alma mater, IIT.