Ashutosh Garg

Entrepreneur, Career Coach, Machine Learning Expert

Ashutosh is CEO & Co-Founder of Viven, building Digital Twins for the enterprise — intelligent counterparts that preserve knowledge, accelerate decisions, and scale human potential. Since 2016 he has also led Eightfold.ai as CEO & Co-Founder, the industry's first Talent Intelligence Platform. He earlier co-founded BloomReach, where he served as CTO from 2009 to 2016. Before founding companies, he was a Staff Research Scientist at Google and held research roles at IBM Almaden and IBM TJ Watson. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (AI/Machine Learning) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi. He also serves on the board of Bidgely and the Plaksha Technology Leaders advisory board.

Jonathan DeLauri

Recruiter

He currently leads Talent Acquisition and People Operations at Viven.ai. He can provide practical insight into how hiring actually works, from interview prep and offer evaluation to what truly makes candidates stand out. Exploring opportunities at Viven.ai? Ask about open roles, hiring timelines, what the team looks for, or whether your background aligns with current opportunities.

Maanas Sharma

AI/ML Engineer

Ask my twin about anything from the best food on MIT's campus, to how I navigate between humanities & STEM, to the latest in applied AI research! I review every question I get to make sure it incorporates my actual personal takes as much as possible.

Shreyas Rana

Software Engineer | UC Berkeley Alum

Shreyas Rana is a Software Engineer at Viven AI, and UC Berkeley alumnus, majoring in both Computer Science and Data Science. Feel free to ask Shreyas questions about applying to college, college life, AI research, and the job search.

Anurag Nilesh

Engineering Leader

My focus areas include AI systems, distributed systems, data integrations, and team scaling.

Shikha Shah

Product Designer | Berkeley Alumni

I currently work at Viven AI as a member of technical staff with previous experiences at Google and Augmental Technologies designing for wearables and voice-forward interactions. I completed my Master of Design from University of California Berkeley focused on design strategy and HCI. My thesis focused on developing a Conversational AI platform powered by GenAI, featuring dynamic interactive capabilities such as Q&A, summarization, note-taking, and cross-referencing, significantly improving the user experience and adhering to ethical and privacy standards in AI. In my ⁠past life, I worked as a Senior Physical Chip Design Engineer with NXP Semiconductors on 16 and 5 nm finFET technology where I gained experience in technical ownership, leadership, xfn collaboration.

Kusum Chaoudhary

University of Maryland - Campus Expert

At Viven, Kusum builds privacy and trust features across the Digital Twin platform — including the Privacy Rule Management System with LLM-generated summaries, a Personas feature for team-level privacy controls, multi-recipient Scheduled Queries, and an evaluation framework for Digital Twin agents using Recall@N and MRR@N metrics. She joined as a Software Engineer Intern in summer 2025, where she designed a runtime Filter Query system for privacy enforcement and automated email-based access workflows in React, Flask, and TypeScript. On campus she works as an Undergraduate Research Assistant on Protein Fold Classification (refining ML reconstruction modules) and earlier on a research project parsing TeX from 100,000+ papers to build a structured equation dataset. She has also been a Teaching Assistant for Object-Oriented Programming I in Java at UMD, supporting 150+ students. She graduates in May 2026.

Anu Mangal

Marketing

Ex-Amazon PMM with expertise in GTM, lifecycle marketing, experimentation, and product positioning at scale.

Ishan Changela

Engineering Leader

Ishan Changela is an Engineering Leader with expertise across Software Engineering and System Design, including Technical Architecture and code optimization. His work includes API Design, microservices, and scalability, with experience spanning both engineering management and technical leadership roles. He focuses on designing technical systems and improving performance through thoughtful architecture and efficient, maintainable code.

Shamant Raghav

Software Engineer

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Vivek Singhal

Solutions Architect

Vivek Singhal is a recruiter focused on Engineering Design, STEM Education, Technical Research, and career coaching. His LinkedIn background describes 20 years in IT across programmer, architect, and director roles, with experience in SaaS platforms, integration, ETL, search, and web technologies in retail and e-commerce. He also works with AskSila, a conversational system positioned around user-controlled knowledge and data controls. The website describes file and voice input features, real-person escalation, and the ability to delete data when requested, along with claims that conversations and knowledge are not used to train models for others.

Niran Kundapur

Product

Niran has built 0-1 products, scaled products, and led GTM pilots for mid-market to enterprise customers across verticals, as a senior product leader at B2B2C startups in Seed / Series A through Series E. Niran's personal motto is "Mind, Muscle, and Manners". He writes about building products and has explored AI-assisted development workflows. He shares his learnings, templates, and frameworks at https://niran-kundapur.com/ and via his digital twin at https://www.asksila.com/niran-kundapur .

Sandesh Goel

JEE Counseller

His areas of focus include IIT preparation, exam strategy, problem solving, and JEE counselling.

Arun Kumar

Platform Ops & Quality Assurance

I am a quality engineering leader with more than 14 years of experience building scalable test automation systems, strengthening software delivery practices, and developing high-performing QA teams. My work sits at the intersection of quality assurance, software engineering, developer productivity, and release management. I have designed automation frameworks for web applications, mobile platforms, and backend services using Java- and Python-based technology stacks. These frameworks have supported parallel execution, project-level test selection, continuous integration, and high-frequency release environments. Beyond test automation, I focus on building complete quality engineering ecosystems. This includes integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines, creating deployment-aware execution and reporting workflows, introducing contract testing and service mocking, enabling performance testing at scale, and using production observability to identify functional and performance regressions after release. I have built and led QA and SDET teams of up to 12 engineers, with responsibility for hiring, mentoring, goal setting, delivery planning, automation strategy, and quality ownership across multiple products. My leadership approach is centred on clear accountability, continuous coaching, engineering excellence, and close collaboration between QA, development, product, and platform teams. A key part of my work has been driving shift-left quality. I encourage quality engineers to participate early in product discussions, requirement walkthroughs, architecture reviews, and technical design decisions. This helps teams identify risks sooner, improve testability, reduce late-stage defects, and treat quality as a shared engineering responsibility rather than a final testing activity. I also enjoy solving operational problems through internal tools and workflow automation. I have created integrations and utilities for test-data generation, environment provisioning, test execution, reporting, traceability, release notifications, and engineering collaboration. More recently, I have introduced AI-assisted practices across the software testing lifecycle for test design, impact analysis, reporting, root-cause analysis, framework development, and team up-skilling. My broader goal is to build quality engineering functions that are technically strong, operationally efficient, and closely aligned with business outcomes. I believe effective quality leadership is not simply about finding defects—it is about helping engineering teams release reliable software faster, with greater confidence and sustainable ownership.

Karan Bajaj

Engineering / Explorer

When not building, you will find me traveling, working my Nuchaku, playing flute, practising Mandarin or learning to write with my left hand. My obsession lives at the intersection of infrastructure reliability and developer experience: the invisible plumbing that makes everything else feel effortless. When I'm not deep in architecture decisions, I'm prototyping half-baked ideas and writing about them at karanversation.github.io

Sakshi Prabhu

Management Consultant

Sakshi is a management consultant with experience across growth, transformation, and operating model projects, including go-to-market strategy, new product launches, cost optimization, organizational restructuring, process improvement, and agile transformations. She is a Chartered Accountant, which enables her to bring a financial lens to business problems - connecting strategic recommendations with commercial impact, value creation, and execution feasibility.

Divya Saxena

Product

Divya leads product work at Viven, where the team builds Digital Twins — AI clones of experts trained on their decisions, communications, and domain knowledge, so anyone in an org can query an expert's twin instantly. Before Viven, she did Product & GTM at Meraki Labs, where she helped ship a multimodal AI tutor with real-time voice and reasoning agents on handwritten inputs, and built the eval framework for ASR/LLM/OCR. Earlier she spent a year on -1 to 0 work at a stealth startup, validating ideas across premium senior healthcare and AI-first SaaS marketplaces through rapid prototyping and 150+ customer discovery interviews. MBA from The Wharton School, undergrad from IIT-BHU.

Akash Bhagat

Marketing

Product marketer with 5 years of experience across Dev tools, Enterprise AI, Strategic partnerships, and Hyperscaler ecosystems. An IIM Bangalore alum (Class of 2022), I am also available for coaching on CAT preparation, WAT-PI and career advice.

Akash Solanki

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Designer focused on AI and SaaS products. I work end-to-end from problem framing to shipped UX, with a strong push on clear flows, design systems, and data-led decisions. I work closely with PM, engineers, and business teams to ship work that moves metrics like activation, adoption, and time to value. Known for pairing solid product thinking with high-quality UI craft and collaboration. Hello 👋, I'm Akash, an engineer turned into a long-term self-taught User Experience & Product Designer and now, Design Engineer. I’m a Senior Product Designer who builds AI products that people actually trust and use. I work at the intersection of AI, data-heavy workflows, and enterprise SaaS. My sweet spot is turning messy data into simple tools that help real teams make decisions fast. I believe AI only wins when: - people trust it - people can inspect it (show the evidence, not just the answer) - people can fix it (tight feedback loops) - it fits into daily work with low effort What I typically build: - AI copilots that let users ask questions, filter, compare results, and reuse workflows - insight dashboards for metrics + root cause analysis (with clean drill paths from “what happened” to “why”) - systems for labeling, calibration, versioning, and human vs AI review so models improve safely - design systems (tokens, core components, table patterns, layout rules) that help teams ship faster and stay consistent - role-based home experiences and localization patterns for global users - internal tools (Figma plugins, templates, docs) that save time and reduce design and dev friction How I work: I’m hands-on, fast, and detail-obsessed. I prototype a lot (sometimes with code) to test behavior, not just visuals. I can also step into product thinking when needed: customer interviews, problem framing, roadmap tradeoffs, and writing clear product stories with engineers. Background: I’m an Electronics & Communication engineer. I spent most of college building real things: coding, designing, and shipping side projects. I also built a community product for designers that grew to 2,000+ members.

Shlesh Gholap

IIT Bombay, JEE Coach, Software Engineer

Shlesh is an IIT Bombay graduate and Software Engineer working on agentic enterprise search, retrieval systems, and applied ML. His work spans foundation models, multimodal AI, and production-grade AI systems. He also mentors students on JEE preparation, IIT counselling, placement preparation, and early career decisions, drawing from his experience as a student mentor for juniors at IIT Bombay. He combines technical depth with practical, first-hand guidance to help students make better academic and career choices.