Gaurav Duggal

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India21 yrs 2 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Pioneered India's first vernacular AI assistant platform.
Authored over 25 deep-tech patents.
Led national-scale generative AI and cybersecurity initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and deep-tech, specializing in scalable solutions and innovative technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)C-level Leadership

Other Skills

Information SecurityNode.jsTechnology LeadershipChief Experience OfficersArchitectureSatellite CommunicationsMachine LearningBlockchainQuantum ComputingFlexVisual C++WindowsMultithreadingAgile MethodologiesSpring

About

🚀 AI | Quantum | Edge | Startup Builder | Board Advisor I'm a deep-tech leader and platform builder with 22+ years of experience architecting, scaling, and monetizing intelligent systems across AI, blockchain, gaming, and space-tech. At Jio Platforms Ltd, I served as CEO of Kanha.Jio and led the creation of India’s first vernacular AI assistant platform. As India Head at Kore.ai, I scaled Conversational AI solutions across global enterprises, delivering multi-million dollar impact. Currently, as CTO for Mattix / SVP at Jio, I lead Generative AI and cybersecurity initiatives at national scale. I'm pursuing a PhD at BITS Pilani focused on Satellite-Based Edge AI—exploring the convergence of space-tech, foundation models, and quantum computing to power the next era of distributed intelligence. My track record includes: 📈 Leading high-scale AI product launches (across voice, video, and bots) 🧠 Authoring 25+ deep-tech patents 🤝 Board advisor & investor to frontier-tech startups 🌍 Global collaboration with MIT, IDC, and quantum labs I work at the intersection of vision, velocity, and verifiability—and I’m always up for solving large unsolved problems that redefine how humans and machines connect. Let's talk if you're building in AI, satellite systems, quantum platforms, or enterprise-grade intelligence.

Experience

21 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Jio

CIO - JEPS

Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Spearheaded the development of innovative AI solutions for Indian enterprises, emphasizing vernacular languages.
Drove initiatives in information security, significantly enhancing data protection measures.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement generative AI technologies, boosting operational efficiency by 25%.

C-Level LeadershipArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Reliance jio infocomm limited

CEO - Kanha.Jio

Jan 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Team works in below innovative areas:
AI - Chat bot, Emotion Detection, Image classification, Video Bots, Speech Interfaces etc
IOT - Smart Home Automation, Agriculture, Education
Infinitely Scalable Games - KBC, IPL etc
Blockchain - Enterprise use case to curb malpractices using DLT

Kore inc

Director of Engineering

Aug 2014 – Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Successfully conceived the best selling feature of the product. Architected solution for scalability and fault tolerance. Contributed to Strategy in terms of technology and road map planning.
NodeJS, Nginx, ELK, Angular, Machine Learning (SyntaxNet, NLTK,scikit), MongoDB, Redis, Python

Ivycomptech pvt ltd

Senior Software Architect

Jan 2006 – Jul 2014 · 8 yrs 6 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Working on Poker and Casino products
o Requirements Elicitation, Analysis, Design & Implementation
o Liaise with all areas of the business to collate and validate requirements
o Identify areas of improvement and new features to enhance the Product
o Interaction with multi-silo teams like Dev & QA for explaining the concepts and resolving queries
o Single point of contact for all architecture activities for Casino, Bingo, and Poker products
o Fixing bottleneck issues for performance improvements

Delmia

Senior Software Engg

Jan 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

o Worked from head-office in Germany for understanding the complete back-end.
o Designed own COM / DCOM components and took initiatives on open source project integration.
o Implemented COM components for Logger framework and various modules in ergo-plan server
o Fixing bottleneck issues for performance improvements in COM / DCOM clients