Kaustubh Deshpande (K.D.)

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States9 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led product management for enterprise AI applications.
Pioneered low-code and deep-code platform tools.
Facilitated global learning in human-centered design.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Leader in the AI and Automation industry.

Contact

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BodybuildingC++Conflict ResolutionData AnalysisDesign ThinkingLaunch ProductsLeadershipMatlabMentorshipMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft WordOutlookPowerPointProduct

About

Hi, I'm Kaustubh or K.D. I'm a product leader at Instabase, a category-defining platform for turning unstructured data into actions. I build powerful low-code and API-first products for enterprises. In the past, as a product leader at C3.ai, I've led the Developer Experience team at C3 AI serving 1000s of customer/partner developers. I've launched & driven the adoption of our deep-code and low-code platform tools and created business-critical training and documentation programs. My ranging interests in human-centered design, behavioral economics, basketball statistics, and great television have all molded me into a multidisciplinary, customer-focused, impact-driven product manager eager to accelerate the next wave of innovation.

Experience

Brain co.

Product Lead

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Lead the product team. First product hire.

Instabase

Product Team Lead

Feb 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Led the automation product team, the team responsible for our flagship product.
We enable enterprises to draw insights and take actions from unstructured data via an industry-leading AI automation platform.

C3 ai

Lead Product Manager

Nov 2018 – Feb 2024 · 5 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Led product management for C3 AI Studio - the visual interface for developing, deploying, and operating enterprise AI applications on the C3 AI Platform.
Hired as APM (APM -> PM -> Senior PM -> Lead PM).
Led:
Application developer tooling (deep code and low code)
Platform native DevOps tooling (CI/CD and release tooling)
Developer ecosystem efforts (application marketplace)

Ideo u

Teaching Assistant

Jul 2018 – Oct 2018 · 3 mos

Facilitated a global learning community around applying IDEO's design principles in the workplace. Served as a TA for Leading for Creativity and led the launch of a new course - Human Centered Service Design

Stanford university school of engineering

2 roles

Course Assistant - ME 310

Sep 2017 – Jun 2018 · 9 mos

Coached around 30 grad students across 8 teams on separate yearlong corporate product design projects (with internal partners + company sponsor). Also led the teaching-team in course planning, taught lectures, and created assignments to keep students on track for final project deliverables.

Graduate Researcher (Center for Design Research) - Ford Research and Innovation Center

Jun 2017 – Sep 2017 · 3 mos

Prototyped a mock-up autonomous van, devised user study protocols, and developed user testing devices (Arduino + Processing to aggregate HR, RR, and core body temperature) to explore the stress response humans have to autonomous vehicles.
Published Paper: (Capturing Passenger Experience in a Ride-Sharing Autonomous Vehicle): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3409120.3410639

Rutgers university–new brunswick

Student Body President - School of Engineering

Jun 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr

Led one of the oldest student governments, representing over 3600 students, serving as a liaison between students, alumni, and administration. Additionally, led 34 engineering organizations and personally oversaw the actions of over 100 members organized into over 10 committees.

Nasa - national aeronautics and space administration

Research Associate for the Multidisciplinary Aeronautics Research Team Initiative (MARTI)

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos · Greater Cleveland

Led a team of 3 in designing and manufacturing a cryogenic electric machine for NASA's Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology project (within electric aircraft propulsion). We succeeded in achieving superconductive motor behavior and presented the PoC to NASA HQ.

Karlsruhe institute of technology (kit) / university of karlsruhe (th)

Research Assistant (DAAD RISE)

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Karlsruhe Area, Germany

Co-authored a paper on low-cost techniques for rapid bonding of epoxy structures to polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) in the Lab on a Chip Journal - Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom, and contributed to the early development of a low-cost refreshable braille display using microfluidic actuators developed via PDMS.