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
- 3 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.
CTO · Kalmantic Agentic Lab
Jun 2026 - Present
- I write most of OpenFactoryAI, a desktop app that runs Claude Code and Codex against each other so nothing ships checked by the vendor that wrote it.
- Authored the Expert Interchange Standard paper on runtime expert swapping for memory-constrained MoE inference. The router is built on it. openfactoryai.com
Chief AI Officer · Hexaview Technologies Inc.
Mar 2026 - May 2026
- AI in Fintech.
Chief AI Officer · Alfahive Inc.
May 2024 - Feb 2026
- Ran AI at a cyber risk company. Shipped gen-AI into the security and insurance products and owned the unit economics on them.
- Focused on healthcare AI. Built a spine modeling algorithm.
- Modernised voice-to-text by fine-tuning Whisper on medical terms as spoken by Indian doctors (localisation).
Co-founder & CTO · Fitbots OKRs
Jul 2018 - Apr 2024
- OKR software. Built it, ran it six years, 75 customers a year at peak.
Co-founder & CTO · Pi-xcels
Sep 2019 - Aug 2021
Singapore
- NFC receipts, hardware and software, built with a cofounder in Singapore. Live in the first 50 stores in Indonesia.
- It caught cashiers faking discounts, which is how the FMCG customer decided it was worth paying for.
Entrepreneur at Antler · Antler
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Singapore (SG3 Founders Program)
- Founders program in Singapore, focused on building a business.
Principal Architect, Digital · Mindtree
Aug 2014 - Jun 2018
- Architect on one of the largest CRM systems built, scaling to 100 million users.
- Led the team for sales and marketing analytics, finding financial fraud across APAC.
Programmer to Senior Architect · Cognizant
Mar 2004 - Jul 2014
- Platform architect for the Big Decisions Platform; built systems in healthcare and pharmacovigilance.
- Built custom ETL tools, mainframe scheduling systems, mobile apps and more.
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.