Vik Chaudhry

Vik Chaudhry is Co-Founder and CTO of Buzz Solutions, an AI and machine learning company focused on helping electric utilities manage their infrastructure more effectively. Buzz Solutions builds technology that analyzes grid assets, identifying risks like vegetation encroachment on power lines and wildlife hazards before they cause outages. With energy demand rising and grid reliability under increasing pressure, the work Buzz Solutions does carries real consequences for both utility operators and the communities they serve.

Chaudhry brings deep technical expertise to a space that has historically lagged in adopting modern technology. Since founding Buzz Solutions, he has spent roughly eight years building the company, with about four of those years focused on commercial deployment. That journey from research to a working product in the hands of utility clients has shaped much of how he thinks about building technology companies.

On The Grove podcast by Earth Onward, Chaudhry spoke about how Buzz Solutions applies AI to a genuinely complex infrastructure problem, the practical challenges of moving a research-heavy product into commercial reality, and what it takes to bring meaningful technological change to an industry as critical and slow-moving as electric utilities.