Kunal Rupani

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States25 yrs 10 mos experience
AI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 3x founder with deep AI expertise.
  • Built AI-native SaaS solutions for cost optimization.
  • Led product innovation in transportation and automotive sectors.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI product leader with extensive experience in transportation and automotive technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAiTechnology DevelopmentBattery TechnologyConnected Car TechnologyIotCloud ServicesFile Sharing SolutionsMobile ManagementEngineering ManagementRouter TechnologySoftware Development4g Technology

Other Skills

SaaSCost ManagementProduct DevelopmentMarketplace SolutionsWirelessEmbedded SoftwareTestingPMPSoftware Project ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipWireless NetworkingCloud ComputingProgram ManagementAgile MethodologiesSoftware Design

About

Building Bloom — the control plane for AI inference. Route, govern, and optimize every LLM call with predictive cost controls. Save 40-70% on AI costs. 3x founder. Operator at the intersection of AI, product, and engineering. I write code, ship product, close deals, and build the teams that scale.

Experience

25 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
4 mos
Current Experience

Bloom

Founder, CEO

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • LLMs are eating your margins - and most companies don't even know which customers are doing the eating. I'm building Bloom, an inference control plane that gives AI-native SaaS companies per-customer cost visibility, real-time margin intelligence, and smart routing to cut inference costs 20–40%. Scale AI profitably.
AISaaSCost ManagementProduct DevelopmentProduct Management

Jettyon

Co-Founder, CEO

Jan 2025Dec 2025 · 11 mos

  • Group Mobility Experience Platform (Acquired)

Charterup

Chief Product Officer

Jan 2024Jan 2025 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • CharterUP is a growth-stage technology company focused on changing the way the world travels. The 2nd fastest-growing private company in the U.S. and first fully integrated charter bus marketplace for Fortune 500 corporations, consumers and operators, CharterUP is disrupting large scale transportation and mobility through powerful and scalable technology.
  • CharterUP makes it possible to book a bus in just 60 seconds, connecting customers to over 4,000 buses and 600 operating partners nationally on its proprietary technology platform. Promoting transparency, accountability and accessibility in the group booking experience, the company’s marketplace provides real-time data on all charter services, featuring on-demand quotes for custom itineraries, embedded payment capabilities, live trip tracking and more.
Product ManagementTechnology DevelopmentMarketplace Solutions

Serviceup

2 roles

Chief Product and Engineering Officer

Promoted

Jun 2022Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Head of Design, Product, and Engineering. We are building the worlds most sophisticated automotive repair marketplace platform powered by AI. Launched B2C, B2B verticals and scaled from no revenue to multiple $M’s in the first year after launch.
  • The marketplace simplifies automotive maintenance management by automating workflows with AI and implementing payment solutions that drive efficiency and increased revenue opportunities for the entire ecosystem.
Product DevelopmentAIMarketplace SolutionsProduct Management

Advisor

Mar 2022Jun 2022 · 3 mos

Popion mobility

Vice President Of Product (Advisor)

Jan 2022Jan 2023 · 1 yr

  • Popion aims to solve one of the great challenges of electrifying transport: fueling infrastructure for commercial vehicles and equipment.
  • Popion's battery exchange technology with standardized universal battery packs delivers energy to all electric heavy-duty vehicles and equipment. The result is a universal and scalable remedy with unlimited usage which greatly reduces Total Cost of Operation (TCO) and increases profitability.
  • Popion Mobility is pioneering a new path that paves the way to 100% zero-emission commercial transportation.
Product ManagementBattery Technology

Aeris communications

Head of Product, Platform and Mobile

Jul 2019Jul 2022 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Aeris Mobility Suite is a Connected Car Platform live on Mitsubishi, VW Motors.
  • Own the end to end experience and platform for Automotive products
  • Founder of two new product lines:
  • Spinach: Smart Wallet for the connected car that uses vehicle data to contextually engage users for in-car commerce experiences that include ordering and paying for food, coffee and curb side grocery pickup,
  • Aeris API One: Enabling developers to access a unified set of API’s across different automotive platforms to build disruptive and innovative use cases for connected cars.
Product ManagementConnected Car Technology

Mojio

Senior Director of Product Management, Platform and Mobile

Mar 2018Jul 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Palo Alto

  • Mojio is a Connected Car IOT Platform backed by Amazon, Bosch, Deutche Telecom and others. I led the Product team (Platform and Apps) to deliver engaging customer experiences for the Connected Car and Internet of Moving Things (IOT) products.
Product ManagementIoT

Oracle

Director of Product Management , Oracle Cloud

Apr 2016Mar 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Redwood Shores

  • As an Oracle Public Cloud IAAS, PAAS Product Owner, I led the following products:
  • PAAS: Event Hub Cloud Service (Kafka): Launched initial versions of Kafka as a Service on Oracle Cloud
  • IAAS: Network Services – VPN, Firewall Security: Launched VPNaaS in Oracle Cloud using technology acquired from Oracle acquisition of Software VPN provider - Corente and third-party VPN HW providers: Juniper, Cisco
  • Technology Partnerships and Acquisitions
  • Product Evangelist and speaker at Oracle Open World.
Product ManagementCloud Services

Accellion

Director of Product Management ☁

Jan 2015Apr 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Palo Alto

  • kiteworks by Accellion is a Secure Enterprise File Sync and Share solution offered in Public Cloud, Private Cloud (On Prem/Hosted) and Hybrid Cloud deployment options that differentiates from its competitors in providing the most secure access and collaboration platform
  • ✔ Roadmap and Strategy development and execution
  • ✔ Product Owner
  • ✔ Technology Partnerships, Integrations
  • ✔ Competitive Intelligence
  • ✔ Thought leadership
Product ManagementFile Sharing Solutions

Symantec

Senior Manager Development ☁

Jan 2013Jan 2015 · 2 yrs · Mountain View, CA

  • Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM) Products:
  • ✔ Mobile Device Management
  • ✔ Mobile Application Management
  • ✔ Mobile Content Management
  • ✔ Mobile Security
Product ManagementMobile Management

Tellabs

Senior Manager Engineering ⚙

Jan 2011Jan 2013 · 2 yrs · Santa Clara, CA

  • Led 100+ engineers across various teams for the Tellabs 8800 Multi-Service Router (MPLS, OSPF, BGP and other L2/L3 tech stacks)
  • SW Development
  • QA and Sustaining
  • Product Demo/Customer success teams
Engineering ManagementRouter Technology

Motorola

Software Engineering Manager/Principle Software Engineer

Jun 2000May 2011 · 10 yrs 11 mos · Arlington Heights, IL

  • 4G - Wimax Broadband RAN Mac Layer Software Development
Software Development4G Technology

Education

Florida International University

Master's degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 1999Jan 2001

University of Mumbai

Bachelor's degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 1995Jan 1999

Don Bosco High School

Jan 1981Jan 1993

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