Amol Kelkar

CEO

Redmond, Washington, United States25 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Pioneered multiple AI techniques ahead of academic publications.
  • Created an open-source framework for AI agents.
  • Led enterprise AI strategy at Qualtrics.
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Skills

Core Skills

Ai StrategyAgentic AiArtificial Intelligence (ai)Artificial General IntelligenceTechnical LeadershipArtificial IntelligenceProduct DevelopmentEducational TechnologyProduct VisionLeadershipMarket AnalysisSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Large Language Models (LLM)Product StrategyAutonomous AI AgentsAI Agent frameworkArtificial ConsciousnessProblem SolvingWritten CommunicationComputational NeuroscienceDynamical SystemsCommunicationStrategic LeadershipMentoringSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Strategic PlanningBusiness-to-Business (B2B)

About

Founder-scientist-engineer and enterprise AI architect with 25+ years building software platforms used by hundreds of millions of users, and a consistent track record of anticipating major AI inflection points 12–18 months ahead of the industry. Currently leading agentic AI strategy at Qualtrics, spanning AI architecture, LLM strategy, model foundries, developer upskilling, and product re-platforming around autonomous agents. Creator of Playbooks, an open-source Software 3.0 framework that treats natural language as code and LLMs as processors, introducing semantic compilation, hybrid NL/Python execution, and debuggable agent runtimes. Previously co-founded and led AI R&D at Got It AI (acquired), where I built enterprise GenAI systems such as AutoRAG and TruthChecker—adopted at scale and ahead of academic publication cycles. My work sits at the intersection of programming languages, AI systems, and computational neuroscience, with long-horizon AGI research focused on biologically inspired architectures, and a career spanning multiple startups, acquisitions, patents, and deep technical leadership.

Experience

Qualtrics

Enterprise AI Architect

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • As the Enterprise AI Architect at Qualtrics, leading the company’s shift to agentic AI and next-generation AI platforms. I define and drive core AI architecture across agent frameworks, LLM and model strategy, internal model foundries, developer upskilling, and product re-architecture for autonomous, long-running agents—working closely with engineering, product, and leadership to turn frontier AI advances into durable, enterprise-scale systems and differentiated customer experiences.
Agentic AILarge Language Models (LLM)AI StrategyProduct StrategyAutonomous AI Agents

Playbooks ai

AI Engineer

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Playbooks is a pioneering open-source Software 3.0 framework for creating AI agents using natural language programs. It treats large language models (LLMs) as processors (CPUs) to reliably execute workflows written in English as structured Markdown files. These playbooks are semantically compiled into a low-level assembly language optimized for LLM execution. The framework supports a hybrid execution model where natural language steps and Python code share a unified call stack.
  • As the creator and lead developer of Playbooks AI, I envisioned and built all core components, from the semantic compiler and runtime engine to hybrid interop, multi-agent collaboration via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and VSCode debugging support to step debug through English instructions like traditional code. PlaybooksLM is a specialized small LLM (3B parameters) that is fine-tuned to ensure fast, accurate, secure, and low-cost execution. This empowers non-coders to build complex AI systems, such as conversational agents, automation workflows, adaptive reasoning bots. Advanced capabilities like runtime program synthesis/search, verifiability constraints, multi-agent emergent behavior hint at potential use for AGI.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous AI AgentsAI Agent framework

Got it, inc.

Co-founder, Chief Scientist and CTO

Aug 2019Nov 2024 · 5 yrs 3 mos · (Acquired)

  • Senior AI executive leading R&D and product teams in developing enterprise-grade Gen AI solutions, notably creating AutoRAG (advanced RAG platform), TruthChecker (industry-leading hallucination detection system adopted by NVIDIA), and AutoFlows (hypergraph mining for conversational automation). Pioneered multiple RAG techniques 6-18 months ahead of academic publications, including Chain of Thought, Self-Check, and generative reranking.
  • Demonstrated success in translating cutting-edge AI research into commercial products, with large enterprise deployments of AI copilots used by 10,000s of customer support and sales agents.
CommunicationTechnical LeadershipLarge Language Models (LLM)Problem SolvingStrategic LeadershipProduct Development+4

I3ai.org

AGI Research Scientist

Jan 2017Jul 2025 · 8 yrs 6 mos · Redmond, WA

  • (on hold) Working on building a new, biologically plausible neural network framework for Artificial General Intelligence, with the goal of building machines that can think and feel like humans by 2030.
Artificial General IntelligenceArtificial ConsciousnessTechnical LeadershipProblem SolvingWritten CommunicationComputational Neuroscience+2

Officespace.com

CTO

Aug 2013Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 11 mos · (Acquired by biproxy)

  • Led software development, web infrastructure, and product for OfficeSpace.com, a B2B platform for Commercial Real Estate. Amol's team developed a sophisticated ETL infrastructure capable of synthesizing data from a wide range of semi-structured sources. The web platform is utilized by over 100K business users every month.
CommunicationTechnical LeadershipProblem SolvingProduct DevelopmentSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Strategic Planning+4

Edufied

Co-Founder

May 2011Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Built Edufied, an education technology platform to help students learn through guided repetition. Ragafied was a product built on Edufied where a student learns to sing as if learning from one of the legendary masters. VidoeReadr was another application built on Edufied that allowed educators to build rich media courseware by bringing together video, text and images on a single timeline.
Product VisionEducational TechnologyLearning Management SystemsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)

Creator republic

Director of Technology

Nov 2010Jul 2011 · 8 mos · (Acquired by uZoom)

  • Lead technologist behind KingOfTheWeb - a "YouTube with a winner" online reality game that brings together creator economy, social media and reality TV.
Technical Leadership

Aflatune inc.

Co-founder and CEO

Apr 2008Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Acquired by Dhingana

  • India's first streaming music service. Vision, product, technology and digital media rights.
MentoringLeadershipMarket Analysis

Microsoft corp

Principal Software Engineer

Apr 2001Apr 2008 · 7 yrs

  • Helped build several key products and services, including Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office InfoPath, OneNote, Office365 and Bing, resulting in eight patents.
CommunicationTechnical LeadershipSoftware EngineeringProblem SolvingWritten CommunicationWeb Development+3

Imapct systems

Software Engineer

Jul 1997Jul 1998 · 1 yr

  • Developed B2B collaboration software.

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

MS Computer Science

Jan 1998Jan 2000

Department of Computer Science, Pune University

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Engineering

Jan 1993Jan 1997

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