Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan (Rajan)

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States21 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-authored two influential books on AI.
  • Grew a mobile app user base to 1.5 million without marketing.
  • Co-hosts a popular AI podcast.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI industry expert with a strong entrepreneurial background.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

InferencePeak Performance

Other Skills

ModelsVenture CProduct MarketingSaaSStart-upsStrategyProduct DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentWeb ApplicationsUser ExperienceEnterprise SoftwareManagementSoftware as a Service (SaaS)

About

AI is the greatest power shift I have seen in my life. Building again. Incubated Kalmantic Labs. Inference performance, benchmarks, MoE research. Researching Peakweights (dynamic quantization). Published 2 books - Peak Inference (with Vamshi Ambati) and Model Is the Easy Part, Harness Engineerin (with Kashi KS). Benchmarks across three verticals. Building PeakInfer, open source CLI for inference analysis. Previously built a computer vision startup before deep learning existed. Ran product at Intuit. Made 50+ pre-seed AI bet through Upekkha in bamboo-shoot problems Silicon Valley ignores. Writing at mtrajan.substack.com. Co-hosting RK on AI podcast with Kashi KS.

Experience

21 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Peak inference forum

Founding Member

Feb 2026 – Present · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

  • CTO forum peakinference.org
InferencePeak PerformanceModels

Kalmantic agentic lab

Head of SuperIntelligence

Jan 2026 – Present · 3 mos

  • finding chokepoints kalmantic.com

Rk on ai podcast

Co-host

Jan 2026 – Present · 3 mos

  • https://www.youtube.com/@ai_in_action_show

Hexaview technologies inc.

AI Advisor

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · India · Hybrid

  • Board Advisor, helping with AI transition.

Upekkha

2 roles

Co-Founder

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · On-site

  • pre-seed bets in bamboo shoots that SV ignores

Co-Founder

Jan 2018 – Mar 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos · On-site

  • backing B2B founders

Intuit

2 roles

Product Leader

Aug 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Part of Quickbooks India leadership team.

Product Management

May 2011 – Aug 2015 · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Product owner for accounting compliance for Quickbooks in all its markets outside of US.

Emuzed inc

2 roles

Co-Founder

Oct 2006 – May 2011 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Built a mobile app that streams video from phone camera to PC and the web.
  • (Alternative to qik.com and justin.tv)
  • Highlights
  • Grew user base to 1.5 million with no marketing spend.
  • Winner of Global Mobile Monday Peer Award 08
  • Profiled in CNBC TV8 Tech2.
  • Regarded as 'A top 10 must have app for Nokia phones'
  • Winner of people's choice award at USID 2009.

Software Engineer

Jan 2005 – Oct 2005 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Engineering development of based multimedia application for first 3G UMTS phone.
  • Development of MMS Engine for Symbian Platform.
  • Acquired by Aricent.

Advetta

Co-founder and CTO

Oct 2005 – Sep 2006 · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • AI Startup: Mobile visual search. Implementation of 3D object recognition using SIFT feature vectors

Sapient

Software Engineer

May 2003 – Nov 2004 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Member of technical staff in building for B2B e-commerce portal redesign for Sony based on a J2EE, Websphere stack

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

B.Tech — Computer Science

Jan 1999 – Jan 2003

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