Ranjith Kumar PS

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 11 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led AI strategy at Khetika transforming agri-commerce.
  • Co-founded award-winning Knappily app recognized by Google.
  • Expert in building scalable cloud-native architectures.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Agritech expert with strong AI/ML and cloud infrastructure skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai/mlCloud InfrastructureDevopsIt StrategyTechnical LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentTechnology Leadership

Other Skills

Agile Project ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)Android DevelopmentApplication Programming Interfaces (API)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataBusiness AnalysisBusiness AnalyticsChatGPTData EngineeringData ScienceElasticsearchGenerative AIHTMLHelms

About

Ranjith is VP of AI and Tech at Khetika, where he leads the AI and technology strategy, driving innovation at the intersection of agriculture and intelligent systems. His focus is on building scalable platforms that empower farmers, agri-businesses, and supply chain stakeholders with real-time insights, predictive analytics, and smart automation. A hands-on engineering leader with a deep entrepreneurial mindset, he combines technical depth with strategic vision to drive innovation across AI, analytics, and platform engineering. Ranjith’s past experience spans high-growth startups and large-scale platforms in Retail, OTT, Media, and EdTech. He co-founded Knappily, an award-winning editorial app recognized as a Google Editor’s Choice, and previously scaled systems 10x as Head of Engineering at SuperZop. His technical strengths span AI/ML, Node.js, React/Next.js, and mobile (Android/iOS), with hands-on DevOps expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab), Terraform, Ansible, and cloud platforms like AWS and GCP. He brings deep proficiency in cloud-native architecture, microservices, event-driven design, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack. Driven by impact, Ranjith now focuses on building intelligent systems that blend traditional software engineering with the emerging potential of agentic AI and autonomous coding agents.

Experience

Khetika

VP of AI and Technology

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Manage cross-functional teams across AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and product development — delivering robust solutions that transform how agri-commerce operates in India and beyond. From precision agriculture to intelligent logistics and dynamic pricing models, we are building the digital backbone of the next-generation agri-retail ecosystem.
Large Language Models (LLM)Generative AINode.jsAI/MLCloud Infrastructure

Machinehack generative ai

Chief Technology Officer

Sep 2024Jun 2025 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Architected and scaled platforms that power real-time AI hackathons, coding challenges, and developer engagement on machinehack.com. My work spans AI/ML, DevOps, backend (Node.js, Python), and frontend (React, Next.js)—delivering resilient, end-to-end systems optimized for performance, usability, and growth.
  • Driving MachineHack’s evolution into the agentic AI space—developing intelligent, autonomous systems that assist users with coding, decision-making, and challenge generation.
  • Implemented and maintained DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloudflare), Kubernetes, and monitoring.
  • Architected the development for Datalyze, a no-code gamified data analytics platform, integrating an LLM-powered chatbot and AI agents for seamless analysis and visualization.
  • Spearheaded the development of CloudLab, an API based AI/ML softwares & agents management application with Helms, Terraform and Kubernetes.
Large Language Models (LLM)Generative AIReact.jsAmazon Web Services (AWS)KubernetesNode.js+2

Tata elxsi

Information Technology Consultant

Jan 2024Sep 2024 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Design and implement technology solutions to meet business needs.
  • Architecting and Solutioning for Smart TVs (Tizen and WebOS) using ReactJS.
  • Took part in performance optimisation and streamlined Redux application in the frontend application.
  • Worked on architecting a react based project with common modules, custom hooks and custom components.

Superzop

2 roles

Vice President Of Technology

Promoted

Oct 2021Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software DevelopmentIT StrategyReact.jsIT ManagementTechnical Leadership

Head Of Engineering

Oct 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs

  • Leading the strategy for technology platforms as well as building and managing the technology team. Selecting and managing company staff or outsourced vendors who will implement a design that is most user efficient, robust and scalable. Establishing technical standards and supervise software development, testing, information systems security and maintenance.
Software DevelopmentIT StrategyReact.jsIT Management

Tata elxsi

Solutions Architect

Dec 2018Oct 2019 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Involved in solving the Broadcasting industry problems by using cutting-edge technologies. Leveraging Site Reliability Engineer principles in practice for the production support projects and Customer Reliability Engineer for customer delight. Building the team, working with developer communities, keeping the team focused. Architected and developed OTT industries' top Android TV and mobile apps.
Software DevelopmentIT Strategy

The new indian express

Information Technology Consultant

Dec 2016May 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

Technology LeadershipNode.jsIT StrategyAgile Project ManagementLeadershipSoftware Development

Knappily

Co-Founder & CTO

Jun 2015Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Involved in end-to-end development of various Android, iOS and Web applications. Designed, implemented, and managed highly available and scalable AWS load balancing solutions to distribute incoming traffic across multiple instances, ensuring optimal application performance and fault tolerance.
  • Knappily had been rated as one of the highest rated news apps on Google Play Store and it was recognized as Google Editors' Choice app - one among the top five news apps.
Software DevelopmentIT Strategy

Testcracker education

Information Technology Consultant

Oct 2012Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Helped in Designing and Developing all technological requirements for K-12 Education Services. Provided leadership to diagnose and overcome barriers to team/project progress and helped in Identifying project risks, alternative resource plans, and other risks, Implement mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
Software Development

Ca technologies

Senior Sofware Engineer

Sep 2011Aug 2012 · 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Responsible for maintaining software by providing moderately complex modification, testing and debugging skills. Authoring and executing automation test cases to ensure good quality of the Products. Specialised in integrating customer, business and technology experience. Provided expert-level product Support to Customers.
Software Development

Tata consultancy services

Software Engineer

Jun 2008Aug 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Responsible for Analysis of Business Requirements and Technical Requirements with the project and product team. Also, involved in End to end development of automation framework and taken care of the every release cycle. Worked closely with analytics team and the UI/UX team and worked with multiple stakeholders (Engineering Manager, Product Managers, Data Team, Customer Intelligence etc.) & aligning the tech team for deliveries.
Software Development

Education

Liverpool John Moores University

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Apr 2021May 2023

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

PG Diploma in Software Development — Cloud Computing

Feb 2021Apr 2022

Azim Premji University

Master of Arts - MA — Development

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Government College of Technology, Coimbatore

Bachelor of Engineering - BE

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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