Naman Kasliwal — Co-Founder

Driving 2× better reach and up to 40% higher product listing conversions for fashion brands by scaling high-performing content across reels, ads, social, and marketplaces.Throughout my career, I’ve ensured that my work has a big impact. On the research front:1. For Indian Railways: Optimized crew allotment for rail operations in Mumbai. Published a research paper. This work was covered by national newspapers (TOI) and earned me an honor award from the Railways for achieving significant cost savings. It was implemented on the Western Line and is now being extended to the Central and Harbour Lines.2. For Indian Army: Developed algorithms for landmine detection. We built this technology in India, which was previously being imported from France.3. For Bihar Government: Articulated a decentralized solar plant model to provide 24/7 electricity to a remote village in Sitamarhi, Bihar. The proposal was submitted to Sri Pratyaya Amrit (IAS), Bihar, and successfully raised funds to execute the project.I founded, scaled, and exited PillarPlus (YC W20), an AI-powered A/E firm that was backed by Y-Combinator. Since the last 4 years, we’ve successfully delivered 1000+ construction projects from hospitals, airports, IT parks, to residential towers across 20 countries with 10x better speed and design accuracy.I was selected for Citibank's Global Leadership Program, contributed to social welfare work for underprivileged sectors in Mumbai, and qualified for all 3 National Olympiads, KVPY, and IIT-JEE Advanced examinations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a multi-disciplinary expert in AI-driven solutions across construction, finance, and defense technology.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 7 yrs 5 mos

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)
Video Production
Construction Management
Ai
Operations Research
Algorithm Development
Image Processing
Signal Analysis
Data Analysis
Trading Strategies
Mobile App Development

Career Highlights

Founded and scaled AI-powered construction firm PillarPlus.
Optimized crew scheduling for Indian Railways, saving significant costs.
Developed landmine detection algorithms for the Indian Army.

Work Experience

Kaptured AI

Co-Founder (4 mos)

PillarPlus

Director (5 yrs 4 mos)

Citi

Analyst - Global Consumer Banking (1 mo)

Indian Railways

Operations Research - Master's Thesis (1 yr 1 mo)

Indian Army

Research Student (3 mos)

Edelweiss Financial Services

Algorithmic Trading, Institutional Equities (2 mos)

Tripie

Technical Head (7 mos)

Mood Indigo IIT Bombay

Coordinator, Competitions and LYP Department (5 mos)

Education

Bachelor's Degree at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

at Y Combinator

Eureka - IIT Business Plan Competition at Startup Course

Naman Kasliwal

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States7 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Founded and scaled AI-powered construction firm PillarPlus.
Optimized crew scheduling for Indian Railways, saving significant costs.
Developed landmine detection algorithms for the Indian Army.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a multi-disciplinary expert in AI-driven solutions across construction, finance, and defense technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Video ProductionConstruction ManagementAiOperations ResearchAlgorithm DevelopmentImage ProcessingSignal AnalysisData AnalysisTrading StrategiesMobile App Development

Other Skills

Video Post-ProductionAdvertisingPhoto ShootsProject DeliveryPythonWeb CrawlingFashion PhotographyVideographyJewelryApparelAudio EngineeringAudio EditingProfessional AudioSocial MediaFundraising

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Experience

Kaptured ai

Co-Founder

Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos · Remote

Leading jewellery and apparel brands in India and the US rely on Kaptured AI to scale smarter, data-driven content.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Video ProductionVideo Post-ProductionAdvertisingPhoto Shoots

Pillarplus

Director

Aug 2019 – Dec 2024 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Now exited.
Raised $1M (including Y-Combinator), completed 2000+ construction projects across 20 countries.
Think Figma for construction engineering, generating construction blueprints using AI.
Clash coordination to prevent site hassles
BOQ generation for material procurement
Detailed drawings with joints and accessories
Prevent delays and errors

Citi

Analyst - Global Consumer Banking

Jul 2019 – Aug 2019 · 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Selected for the Citibank's Global Leadership Program

Indian railways

Operations Research - Master's Thesis

May 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

Industrial operations project of crew scheduling aimed at saving working costs and manpower. The work aimed at developing an automatic and optimized crew planning tool to run trains with minimum staff.
Worked closely with senior railway personnel to understand policy documents, guidelines and major practical concerns of scheduling
30+ constraints programmed in the algorithm
Formulated a meta-heuristic that allocates resources constructively and performs workload balancing iteratively with a self-correcting mechanism
The research paper was presented at the prestigious OR conference, 2019 held in Germany. The project also got covered in national newspapers (TOI).

Indian army

Research Student

Jan 2018 – Apr 2018 · 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Developed image processing algorithms to assist the hardware team in the detection of landmines by interpreting signals from a ground radar
Generated images from signals received through a stepped frequency continuous wave radar
Applied multivariate analysis techniques including PCA/ICA to reduce the dimensionality of GPR data
Designed Python functions to perform noise removal and image refinement for contour detection

Edelweiss financial services

Algorithmic Trading, Institutional Equities

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

The primary objective of the internship was to improve the Post Trade transaction cost analysis (TCA) infrastructure, risk team automation and Direct Market Access (DMA) automation.
Worked on 2 projects as listed below:
Project 1: Automated VWAP Trading Strategy
Developed techniques in Python to generate volume trends in shares traded per 10 seconds interval during the normal trading sessions for NIFTY 100 stocks
Designed a prediction model to forecast volume curves using last 90 days data by performing feature selection, extraction, reduction and curve smoothening
Removed block trades from the data set by approximating a single day's data as a normal distribution
Project 2: Price Data Regulation
Back-stitched future contracts in both ratio and difference methods to account for price gaps caused by contract rollovers on the expiration dates
Composed a Python script with a production-level user interface to adjust for historical price data of splits, dividends and distribution days for stocks
Created and tested alpha strategies using AmiBroker technical analysis software

Tripie

Technical Head

Jul 2015 – Feb 2016 · 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Tripie offers a fuss-free way to make complete optimized travel itinerary for your trip. With just a tap!
Surveyed behavioral pattern of potential customers on various parameters
Worked in a team of 4 to launch the minimum viable product; acquired 150+ downloads in a 10-day span
Optimized travel schedule using search algorithms on the basis of preferences provided; integrated Facebook in the mobile app to predict a user itinerary
Automated data collection for various cities using web-crawler developed on python
Reduced per customer acquisition cost by 40% using A/B testing in marketing
Finalist among 8500+ participant startups in Eureka’15, Asia’s biggest business model competition.

Mood indigo iit bombay

Coordinator, Competitions and LYP Department

Jul 2015 – Dec 2015 · 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Mood Indigo is Asia’s largest college cultural festival; net worth ₹ 6 crores, 126000+ footfall, over 220+ events
Conceptualized 6 multi-city competitions all over India thus increasing the reach of the fest
Ensured an unruffled organization of multiple events spread across 7 different venues in the IIT Bombay campus
Spearheaded the launch of an impromptu comedy competition with proper event structuring