Vaishnavi is the founder and principal of Vyanams Strategies (VYS). She is an expert in online child safety and privacy as well as age-appropriate design, policy development, and product guidance.

Prior to founding VYS, Vaishnavi spent 15 years developing, and scaling youth safety solutions at leading technology companies. She was the global head of youth policy at Meta, developing age-appropriate content and product policies across Instagram, Facebook, VR, AI, and messaging. She supported product launches such as parental controls, age assurance mechanisms, and interventions across child safety, self-injury, body image, and addictive engagement.

Before joining Meta, Vaishnavi led Twitter’s livestreaming and video content safety efforts, addressing bad actors seeking to exploit users. She was also Twitter’s first head of safety in the Asia-Pacific region, serving a large youth population. She responded to sensitive escalations, trained enforcement vendor teams, and incorporating insights from APAC into global policies and products. Her work spanned issues such as cyberstalking, deepfakes, and schoolyard harassment.

Vaishnavi previously served as Google’s child safety and privacy lead for the Asia-Pacific region. She worked with regional governments to assess emerging child safety regulations, sought civil society and youth perspectives on emerging child safety risks, and used these insights to inform Google’s product and policy prioritization. Vaishnavi began her career at Walt Disney Imagineering, supporting the company’s efforts to build magical and safe experiences for children at its international theme parks.

At VYS, we are actively building a mission-driven team that can provide immediate and informed support to our clients.