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Hemant K.

CEO

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India18 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led AI initiatives at Opkey, driving impactful outcomes.
  • Founded Kruti.ai, enhancing AdTech personalization.
  • Expert in aligning business needs with AI solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and Data Science across multiple industries including AdTech and HealthTech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology EvaluationBusiness RequirementsE-commerceEntrepreneurship

Other Skills

Team CultureBusiness Decision MakingUser StoriesInternet of Things (IoT)Cloud ApplicationsLeadershipGitAnalyticsBayesian networksCollaborative FilteringSoftware EngineeringHigh Performance ComputingOptimizationNetCDFSoftware Development

About

With extensive expertise in artificial intelligence, I lead AI initiatives as Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Opkey, focusing on technology evaluation and fostering a culture of collaboration. My work emphasizes aligning business requirements with cutting-edge AI solutions to drive impactful outcomes. Previously, I contributed to innovative ventures, including founding Kruti.ai, a GenAI Model Garden focused on AdTech and MediaTech personalization, and consulting on GenAI solutions in the HealthTech domain. My mission is to harness technology to create transformative solutions that meet business needs and deliver tangible value.

Experience

18 yrs 6 mos
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Current Experience

Opkey

Vice President of Artificial Intelligence

May 2026Present · 1 mo · Bengaluru · On-site

Autocash.ai

Leading AI & Technology

Oct 2025Mar 2026 · 5 mos

Startup leadership program

SLP Fellow & Entrepreneur

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • (Sep 2023 – Jun 2025) – Founded Kruti.ai, a GenAI Model Garden focused on AdTech and MediaTech personalization, enabling video ad localization and multimodal content generation.
  • Collaborated with NeurCG, a Max Planck Institute–affiliated venture, on multilingual ad generation pipelines.
  • Exited stealth AI startup by selling Kruti.ai domain and foundational idea to Krutrim.ai, marking successful project culmination (May 2025)
  • (May 2024 – Oct 2024) – Served as Consultant Director of Products & Delivery at Miimansa AI, a HealthTech/MedTech startup.
  • Led GenAI solutions for drug discovery and clinical trial digitization, leveraging LLMs to its first client.

Pipecandy

Principal Data Scientist - PipeCandy acquired by Assembly/PACVUE, Inc.

Apr 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Remote

Technology EvaluationTeam CultureBusiness RequirementsBusiness Decision MakingUser Stories

Agromojo technology

Co-Founder & CEO

Oct 2020Mar 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Singapore · Hybrid

  • As a resident entrepreneur at Antler Singapore, co-founded Agromojo Technology, at the intersection of AI&ML leveraging IoT, and Blockchain technologies in AgriTech. Agromojo envisioned addressing the problem of the hyperlocal digital supply chain from farms to vendors removing intermediaries. The larger vision of AI-powered data-driven robust recommendations for improved yield in fresh Fruits and Vegetable segments (F&V) and better price by crowdsourcing data. Assurance of unadulterated and organic produce powered by a blockchain-enabled supply chain for the end consumer.
E-CommerceInternet of Things (IoT)EntrepreneurshipCloud ApplicationsTechnology EvaluationLeadership+3

Antler

Entrepreneur In Residence

Jul 2020Oct 2020 · 3 mos · Singapore

  • Joined Antler Global Singapore Cohort 5 as Entrepreneur and pivoted to an AgriTech company.
Technology Evaluation

Ibm

Data Scientist - AI / Software Architect / Federated Developer Advocate

May 2017Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Singapore · On-site

  • IBM Watson Cognitive Computing: Architecting Data Science solutions for IBM Watson Cognitive Computing capabilities using and augmenting with state-of-the-art in Machine Learning & Deep Learning in NLP and Computer Vision.
Technology EvaluationTeam CultureBusiness Requirements

Samsung electronics

Senior Engineer - Machine Learning

Apr 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea

  • Worked in Future Technology Lab and Intelligent Systems Lab of SASMUNG Research | AI Center (erstwhile SAMSUNG DMC R&D Center) in the capacity of Senior Data Scientist, in the area of deep learning for autonomous and smarter automotive. Researched and hacked a working demo of In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) compliant to GENIVI and Embedded Linux Yocto for Raspberry Pi2. Worked for analyzing the data in IoT based Geo-fencing and in-store real-time personalized promotions. Disclosed an IP for the idea based on geo-fencing, beacons and heatmap of customer footfalls.
Technology EvaluationBusiness Requirements

Ibm research

Research - Staff Software Engineer / Architect - Advanced Analytics

Sep 2011Mar 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Singapore

  • IBM Research Lab - Business Analytics & Mathematical Sciences (BAMS): Worked in conceptualizing and creating a Common Data Object Model for integrating variety, disparate and multi-modal sources of data for analytics use-cases (DataLake). Integration of data extraction pipeline of WRF data, Road Traffic, and other multi-modal sources of data from the Big Data perspective for various projects Weather Forecast, Pollution Source Attribution, and Dengue Model.
  • IBM Watson/Systems/Chief Analytics Office: Conceptualized and led multiple initiatives in Social Media Analytics, NLP, and Text Mining based Early Warning Systems for possible supply chain disruptions due to extreme weather, natural disasters, or geopolitical unrests with geospatial analytics, which integrated to IBM Transparent Supply Chain and rebranded as Watson Cognitive Supply Chain Risk Insight product. Few other key projects and initiatives projects.
  • 1.) IBM La Vida Watson Hackathon for #JudgeWaston.
  • 2.) #getSimople Ideation Jam: A cloud-based AI-driven for Preventive Health Care and Lowering of Group Health Insurance Using Crowd-Sourcing of HealthCare Claims and Anonymized Medical Records Personalized Recommender System.

Infosys labs, infosys technologies limited

2 roles

Junior Research Associate (Research Analyst)

Promoted

May 2010Aug 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Predictive Analytics workbench development based on the suite of data mining and machine learning algorithms at Infosys Labs and Product Incubation Engineering (PIE) group, erstwhile SETLabs (Software Engineering & Technology Labs).
  • Technologies: Apache UIMA, GATE, Text Mining, NLP, Weka, R, Python, etc.

Analyst Specialist

Feb 2009Apr 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore, India

  • SETLabs (Software Engineering & Technology Labs), in the Infosys HIMI (Holistic Information Management Infrastructure) group. Conceptualized and created PoC driving innovation in predictive and prescriptive analytics. Ad hoc request for data analytics and consulting engagements with Go-to-Market team.

Infosys consulting

Analyst

Aug 2007Jan 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Knowledge Services- Analytics Unit. The consulting engagement with Microsoft AdCenter team in keywords based search and display ad pricing analytics and optimization of ad spaces. Suggested and created out-of-the-box keyword-based search indices similar to Dow Jones indices and ad placement suggestion based on GSP auctioning theory.

Startup

Technical Evangelist / Entrepreneur

Aug 2006Jul 2007 · 11 mos · Pune / Delhi

  • Worked in pursuit of entrepreneurial interest for web based student email service, development of e-learning system (K12) and cloud based educational docket services. Evangelized and bootstrapped the idea while reaching out for angel investors.

Forschungszentrum jülich

Young Scientist (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)

Oct 2005May 2006 · 7 mos · Kreisfreie Stadt Aachen Area, Germany

  • Worked as a young scientist in supercomputing and high-performance computing area at Julich Supercomputing Center, Germany. Customized the opensource code of Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Performed simulations on JUGENE, IBM BlueGene Super-computer cluster, then the 3rd fastest supercomputer cluster in 2005, globally.
  • Participated in Quantum Simulation using a parallel programming paradigm using the IBM Bluegene Supercomputer cluster.

Isro-iitk space technology cell

Research Intern

Aug 2005Sep 2005 · 1 mo · IIT Kanpur

  • Worked at ISRO - IITK Space Technology Cell, at IIT Kanpur in the area of plasma simulation using 'Particle-in-Cell' model, an open source code for 1D Vlasov Equation from Berkeley Plasma Simulation Group. <http://ptsg.eecs.berkeley.edu>

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Master's degree

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Master of Science - MS — Mathematics & Computing

Institute of Science - Banaras Hindu University

Bachelor of Science - BS — Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Jack Welch Management Institute

Executive Certificate Program in Leadership and Strategic Management — Business/Corporate Communications

Jan 2017Jan 2018

Harvard Business School Online

CORe

MIT Professional Education

MIT Professional Certificate — Quantum Computing Fundamentals

Jan 2020Jan 2020

MIT Professional Education

MITx Professional Certificate — Data Science and Big Data Analytics

Jan 2014Jan 2014

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