Ashwin Kulkarni

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 16+ years of experience in AI and engineering.
  • Led AI initiatives serving over 1M users/sec.
  • Co-founded two startups focusing on innovative solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and EdTech expert with strong AI and Machine Learning capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data ScienceMachine LearningAi/mlComputer VisionBusiness IntelligenceDeep Learning

Other Skills

APIsAWS Elastic BeanstalkAWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)AWS LAMBDAAWS LambdaAWS S3Amazon CloudWatchAmazon CognitoAmazon EC2Amazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Android DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (AI)DjangoElasticsearch

About

I build AI systems that scale and deliver. With 16+ years of experience across engineering, consulting, and product leadership, I’ve co-founded two startups and now lead Enterprise AI and Technographics at Demandbase — driving cutting-edge multi-agent architectures, A2A protocols, and resilient, observable AI systems. Educated in AI/ML from Deakin University (Melbourne) and UT Austin, I move fast, think sharp, and execute with precision. Previously, I led AI at Embibe — revamping their search platform and scaling APIs to serve over 1M users/sec. Before that, I was VP Engineering at FundsCorner, building ML and credit systems for India’s retail sector. I specialize in: Orchestrating intelligent agents that think and act Turning raw data into smart, scalable products Building from 0→1 in high-stakes environments When I’m not leading high-performance teams, I’m mentoring founders, dissecting products, or talking strategy over a game of basketball. Always hands-on. Always thinking 2 steps ahead.

Experience

Demandbase

2 roles

Senior Data Science Manager

Promoted

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Principal Data Scientist

Oct 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Embibe

Lead Data Scientist

Jun 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • I lead the Data Science Platform and also the Search team at Embibe.
  • I worked closely with the Head of Search at Pinterest/Walmart Labs – Somnath Banerjee.
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/somnath-banerjee/
  • Lead Search Team:
  • 1. Search Re-Architecture
  • 2. Research Failed Queries
  • 3. Search V2
  • Leading DataScience Platform:
  • 1. Houses 50+ DataScience Apps for Showcasing
  • 2. Pushed several Data Science APIs to Production
  • 3. We support 1M users/second
Data ScienceMachine LearningAPIsSearch Re-Architecture

Inkers technology

Computer Vision Research Engineer

Apr 2018Aug 2018 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • The Inkers design and develop deep large-scale AI and ML vision solutions for Enterprises, Defence and Security Organizations.
  • The Inkers are working on some of the most complicated and technically challenging problems in the field of AI & Computer Vision, Auto-Navigation, Path Planning, Segmentation, 3D-Reconstruction, Object tracking, Deep Neural Network Optimization, DSP HW integration for Inferencing, Video Compression, etc.
  • I did a project on Uber's SBNET (Sparse Block Networks)
  • https://eng.uber.com/sbnet/
  • On Text Detection and OCR using Pixel-Link and Calamari on Vehicle license Plates and Cheque Amount and Numbers.
  • https://github.com/ZJULearning/pixel_link
  • https://github.com/Calamari-OCR/calamari
  • Successfully cleared all 3 stages of the course!
  • https://inkers.ai/
Computer VisionDeep LearningOCR

Fundscorner

Vice President Of Engineering

Dec 2017Jun 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Improving Business Automation using AI/ML and Computer Vision:
  • 1. Bank Statement Parser for Financial analysis.
  • 2. Cheque Parser using computer vision.
  • 3. AI based KYC (Match image from pancard, aadhaar and selfie).
  • 4. Classification of images and determine whether an image is a retail shop or not.
  • 5. Credit Default Prediction.
  • 6. Credit Scorecard.
  • 7. Probability of repaying Loan.
  • 8. Probability of bouncing a cheque.
  • Improving Business Decision/Business Intelligence:
  • 1. All analysis based on Monthly, Quarterly, Half-Yearly, Yearly and 3 Years breakdown.
  • 2. BI using Google Data Studio.
  • 3. Event based triggers to alert internal team, consumers and co-lenders.
  • 4. Auto generation of reports and delivery of BI data.
  • 5. Realtime Sync from Mongodb to PostgreSQL.
  • Microservices Architecture , Scaling and CI/CD:
  • 1. Build scalable microservices architecture using AWS, Flask, Zappa(Lambda) and ECS .
  • 2. Use all AWS services like Cognito, SNS, Api-Gateway, Secrets Manager.
  • 3. Use DB like MongoDB and Postgresql.
  • 4. Gitlab as repository manager and CI/CD.
  • 5. Complete Automation of Cibil and NACH Payment.
  • Data Collection using Client app:
  • 1. Built Android Apps for Agents and Retailers.
  • 2. Including UI/UX for every screen.
AI/MLComputer VisionMicroservicesBusiness Intelligence

Gathr

Co-Founder

Sep 2015Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore + Bombay

  • www.letsgathr.com || www.facebook.com/letsgathr
  • Gathr is a mobile and web application that taps into your extended social and place-based networks to find people who want to do what you want to do when you want to do it by matching momentary impulses and general interests. Gathr is like a Meetup for casual, short-notice, social activities. You can tap into your network of friends of friends to watch a movie tomorrow, tap into your neighbourhood network to set up a playdate for your kids over the weekend, or tap into your network of colleagues to see who wants to play a game of foosball in the afternoon.
  • Currently we also do,
  • High-quality alternative social experiences (for now). We do what we do because we want to create entertainment and more generally, human interactions, that make you feel big, not small. We also work with companies as a Design Agency that reflects the truth of their product through a series of physical interventions.
  • Led data for the gathr product from 100 users to 2500 users by doing numerous small experiments.
  • Activities: growth analytics, experimentation, product machine-learning, reporting

501 labs

Co-Founder

Jul 2011Jul 2015 · 4 yrs

  • We built mobile applications that leverage location and social information for social enterprises.

Tech mahindra

Java Developer

Jun 2007Jun 2011 · 4 yrs

Education

Deakin University

Master's degree

Jul 2022Feb 2024

The University of Texas at Austin

Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning — Deep Learning

Jan 2019Jan 2020

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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