hello — i’m kashi.
Founder.Researcher.Product & Services.
Kashi KS · working globally
Building AI-native products, advising founders and CXOs on agentic operating models, and writing about how strategy meets the code — shipping in the open.
- Experience
- 20+ yrs
- Ventures
- 2 startups
- Published
- 5 titles
01 / About
Builder. Operator. Author.
Proven capabilities in building and scaling SaaS products from concept to scale. Strong track record in enterprise — leading Centers of Excellence and delivering large, complex programs from the ground up.
Two decades across enterprise platforms, two startups as co-founder & CTO, and multiple Chief AI Officer mandates — with hands deep in data, models, and shipped product. I work where strategy meets the code.
- Strategic Leadership
- Growth Strategies
- Product Strategies
02 / Writing
Books & publications.
Long-form work for CXOs, technology leaders, and operators of the agentic enterprise.
- 01
AI Edge — Transform and Maintain Legacy
A Strategic Guide for CXOs, Technology, and Business Leaders.
- 02
How to be an Agentic Operator
Operating-model playbook for the agentic enterprise.
- 03
What is your NemoClaw Strategy?
How Autonomous Agent Swarms Are Rewriting the Rules of Enterprise Competition.
- 04
Expert Interchange Standard
Enabling Memory-Constrained MoE Inference Through Runtime Expert Swapping.
- 05
SecLens
Role-Specific Evaluation of LLMs for Security Vulnerability Detection.
03 / Voice
On podcast, on stage, on screen.
Where I think out loud about agents, operating models, and the next decade of enterprise software.
Podcast · Spotify
Leading with AI
Conversations on building AI-native businesses.
Listen
Show · YouTube
AI in Action
Demos, debates, and deep-dives into agentic systems.
Watch
Writing · Medium
Essays & field notes
On the operating model of the agentic enterprise.
Read
Speaking · Luma
Talks & events
Industry forums, panels, and meet-ups — see the next ones.
See schedule
04 / Education
Where I trained.
MIT Professional Education
Chief Product Officer — Blended Professional Certificate
Dec 2023 — Dec 2024
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Master of Science (MS), Software Engineering
2007
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications
1999 — 2003
Kendriya Vidyalaya, DRDO
Schooling
05 / Recognition
Honors & certifications.
Honors
- ●Chairman’s Award — Expert of the Year, 2017
- ●Outstanding Performer, 2014–2015
- ●Outstanding Performer, 2015–2016
- ●Above & Beyond — Q3 2006
- ●Above & Beyond — Q4 2007
Certifications
- ●Relationship Building for Creative Leaders
- ●Creating a Culture of Strategy Execution
- ●Introduction to Large Language Models
- ●Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
- ●YC Startup School 2018
06 / Experience
Two decades of building.
Chief AI Officer · Hexaview Technologies Inc.
March 2026 — Present
Global
- AI in Fintech
Researcher in Residence · Kalmantic AI Labs
March 2026 — Present
Global
- AI Research
Chief AI Officer · Alfahive Inc.
May 2024 — February 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos
Global
- Generative AI consulting — establishing the business case to drive ROI.
- Solution design across Microsoft, Google Cloud, Azure, Databricks, and NVIDIA.
- Generative AI data pipelines, Responsible AI, and security implementation services.
- Drove implementation of AI / Gen AI features into Cybersecurity and Insurance products.
- Drove positive unit economics and operating model of the company with AI.
Co-founder & CTO · Fitbots OKRs
July 2018 — April 2024 · 5 yrs 10 mos
Global
- Led Technology, Product and GTM from idea to growth stage.
- Defined product vision & technical roadmap; built an agile, scalable foundation.
- Hired and grew a high-performing engineering team.
- Architected an enterprise-grade, secure and scalable platform for global customers.
- Evangelized Fitbots to investors, partners and customers — secured funding and built brand.
- Championed tech adoption across all teams for data-driven decisions.
- GCP
- Vertex AI
- Serverless
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Firebase
- Cloud SQL
- Pub/Sub
- Cloud Functions
- Dataflow
- BigQuery
Co-founder & CTO · pi-xcels
September 2019 — August 2021 · 2 yrs
Singapore
- Built v1 of the NFC-based receipt product; established scalable customer-intelligence architecture.
- Launched integrated hardware + software in the first 50 stores in Indonesia.
- Delivered fraud detection and ROI evidence for an FMCG major.
Entrepreneur in Residence · Antler
July 2019 — September 2019
Singapore (SG3 Founders Program)
- Focused on building a business inside Antler’s founders program.
Principal Architect · Mindtree
July 2016 — June 2018 · 2 yrs
- Strategic technology consulting for enterprise customers.
- Architected and built large, high-performance systems; led CRM platform for a leading beauty brand at 100M-user scale.
- Architecture and solutioning for pre-sales deals ranging $2M to $20M.
- Chairman’s Award 2017 — Expert of the Year (Big Data + global CRM implementation).
- Cassandra
- Cloudera CDH
- AWS EMR
- MapR
- Spark
- Informatica BDM
- Tibco BW
- Power BI
- Tableau
- SFDC Marketing Cloud
- Azure Data Lake
Senior Architect, Digital · Mindtree
August 2014 — June 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos
- Architected scalable sales analytics platform for an FMCG brand across APAC.
- Designed decision intelligence platforms for FMCG, Pharma, Hospitality and Technology customers.
- Lead Architect, Data Integration CoE and Digital Architecture teams.
- Outstanding Performer Awards — 2015, 2016.
Senior Architect — EIM, Enterprise Information Architecture · Cognizant
August 2013 — July 2014 · 1 yr
Bengaluru, India
- Platform Architect for the Big Decisions Platform — accelerated data integration plugin.
- Pre-sales solution architecture on USD 2–5M deals.
- Defined domain-specific data models for Retail, Life Sciences, BFSI.
- AWS
- EMR
- Pig
- Hive
- HBase
- Redshift
- Data Modeling
- C
- Java
- Informatica SDK
- Tableau
- QlikView
Architect / Consultant — EIM CoE, Life Sciences · Cognizant
November 2010 — August 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos
Bengaluru, India
- Designed scalable BI systems for Pharma & Retail.
- Spearheaded cross-platform mobile app for clinical trial monitoring.
- Built people & process capacity in Data Integration, Big Data, DW Appliances and viz tools.
- Architecture for pre-sales deals (USD 1–2M).
- Informatica
- Ab Initio
- Teradata
- Netezza
- C
- C++
- Python
- Java
- JavaScript
- Shell
- Tableau
- Cognos
- QlikView
- PhoneGap
- Android
Various Technology Roles — Life Sciences · Cognizant
March 2004 — November 2010 · 6 yrs 9 mos
- Built a novel pharma & sales data monetization platform with custom pricing models.
- System design for data monetization and decision systems in large Pharma and Retail.
- Independently architected data warehouses, data marts and decision intelligence platforms.
- Above & Beyond Awards — 2006, 2007.
07 / Contact
Let’s talk.
Always happy to hear from founders, operators, researchers, and event organisers. Whether it’s an advisory mandate, a panel, a podcast, or a good conversation about agents — LinkedIn is the fastest way to reach me.
Primary · LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/kashiks
Send a connection note or DM.