Praveen Koka

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led multiple startups with successful pivots.
Expert in AI-driven product development.
Proven track record in building high-performing tech teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong AI and product management capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Product ManagementTechnology LeadershipMachine LearningBusiness Strategy

Other Skills

Executive Level InteractionTechnical LeadershipCassandraMongoDBGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)PostgreSQLKubernetesLean ProcessesNatural Language Processing (NLP)Application Performance ManagementDeveloper MarketingContinuous Integration (CI)Site Reliability EngineeringPenetration TestingQuant Research

About

Through various Fractional CTO engagements, I: - Agentic products from scratch or augment existing products with agentic AI capabilities - Help business founders take their tech startups from 0-1, and 1-10. - Build and grow sharp tech teams to build from scratch or re-platform MVPs for the next phase of growth Previously founded multiple startups: Greenroom - Linkedin for creators, pivoted to influencer marketing analytics Hawtlist - Social commerce app where users could curate storefronts with their favourite products, and their fans could buy directly from the storefront Roambee - IOT location-aware sensor tracking and monitoring for the logistics industry Skope Solutions - An RFID systems integration company, pivoted and rebooted into Roambee

Experience

Trilogy

Vice President of Artificial Intelligence

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru

Research, dissect, benchmark, and deploy the latest and greatest in AI
Consultative AI transformation for product and process across the org

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Executive Level Interaction

Tandav labs

Founder, CTO

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Berlin, New York · Hybrid

Currently working on several products:
1. Agentic AI colleague in the Fintech space
2. Enterprise SaaS for the chemicals industry with SAP and Salesforce connectors
3. Payment processing for U.S government affiliated services

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Product ManagementTechnical Leadership

Roq technology

VP Engineering

Jul 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Berlin, Germany

Hire and lead Software Engineering teams to build a game changing platform for SaaS development
Oversee delivery, application performance, security, devops, and enterprise customer solutions
Key contributor and influencer in product strategy, AI adoption
Driver of developer marketing strategy and efforts - content, influencer, performance marketing. Personally created several educative videos for marketing

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Technology LeadershipApplication Performance ManagementBusiness StrategyDeveloper MarketingContinuous Integration (CI)+2

Hawtlist

Founder, CEO

Sep 2020 – Aug 2021 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Hawtlist is a creator commerce platform for recommendation based shopping.

Technology LeadershipBusiness StrategyLean Processes

Goin'

Technical Lead (Consulting)

Apr 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States - Remote

Technology LeadershipLean Processes

Greenroom

Co-Founder, CPTO

Jan 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Led Product and Software Engineering to build 3 SaaS tools for the Media and Marketing Industries
1. Greenroom Talent - A job board for creative artists.
50K MAUs with no marketing spend, 3000 artists placed, and launched the careers of mainstream film actors
2. Social Quant (Creator Unit) - Influencer marketplace
Ingest and process millions of social media posts per day to generate brand relevant insights about influencers
ML natural language processors for content classification and sentiment analysis
Contracted by one of India's largest media agencies, and other brands
Powers Greenroom's influencer operations till date
3. SoCom - Social content widget for E-commerce apps
Developed a widget that could instantly source and display top influencer content about any product on an e-commerce website / app
Built scanners that could ingest an entire product catalog by scraping, and tag products on a repository of 1B+ social posts