Rahul Arulkumaran

Founder

San Francisco, California, United States5 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 3 patents and 30+ papers with 800+ citations.
  • Scaled Widhya from 650 to 15k users in 3 months.
  • Led advanced trading system development at Yuma.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full Stack Data Leader with expertise in AI, Blockchain, and Data Engineering.

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Currently building Browzer. I'm a Full Stack Data Leader with a demonstrated research mentality backed by 3 patents & 30+ papers on my name with 800+ citations and an h-index of 11. Graduated with a Masters in Data Science from the University at Buffalo in 2022. Post graduation, I worked at Foundry Digital as a Data Engineer 2 -> Data Engineer 3 -> AI Engineering Fellow, and later joined Foundry’s sister company, Yuma as an AI Engineering Manager. I'm a highly skilled Applied Scientist with a solid understanding of the entire data science pipeline - from collecting data to building, deploying and scaling predictive models. Prior to my masters, I worked on my own startup, Widhya! Using data, my team and I were able to devise low cost strategies to scale the startup from 650 users to 15k users in a span of 3 months. Although, I love working with data - I also thoroughly enjoy working and understand the web3/Blockchain space. Worked on multiple projects in various blockchains like Ethereum, Fantom, Avalanche and Polygon. Co-Founded NFT Garage and Stonk Society. Stonk Society was one of the most successful projects of its time through which we raised $500,000 through NFT sales. Also worked with SpiritSwap as a part-time developer to help them build their portfolio page by determining the most crucial metrics for end users and creating robust APIs from scratch for the frontend team to gather portfolio related information.

Experience

5 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 2 mos
Average Tenure
7 mos
Current Experience

Founders, inc.

Founder In Residence

Jan 2026Feb 2026 · 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Browzer

Founder

Oct 2025Present · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Workflow documentation & automation tool powered by for ops teams

Odf

Founder Fellow

Sep 2025Sep 2025 · 0 mo · California, United States

  • Selected for ODF’26

Forbes technology council

Member - AI & Crypto

Jan 2025Jan 2026 · 1 yr

Yuma

AI Engineering Manager

Jan 2025Sep 2025 · 8 mos · Rochester, New York, United States · Hybrid

  • Single handedly ideated and implemented the most advanced trading system to trade subnets on bittensor that transacted millions in volume

Ai frontier network

Member & Early Adopter

Sep 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr · Remote

Foundry

4 roles

AI/ML Engineer Fellow

Jan 2024Jan 2025 · 1 yr

  • Architected a subnet to predict the price of S&P 500 on BitTensor - helped create a new business line that's projected to be a multi million dollar revenue generating business annually.
  • Have a 100% utilisation of the 256 miner slots on our subnet.
  • Led the development of various statistical models and neural networks to push self mining efforts on our subnet.
  • Led the development of ML Models for other subnets across Bittensor to mine on.
  • Responsible for the research and setup of an MLOps platform for the organization.

Data Engineer III

Jan 2024Feb 2024 · 1 mo

Data Engineer II

Jan 2023Jan 2024 · 1 yr

  • Built highly scalable and idempotent ETL pipelines to capture and store 10+ TBs of historic data and 10+ GB of data in the data lake on a daily basis.
  • Utilized various AWS services like S3, Glue, Athena, ECS, Kinesis to build scalable data pipelines and Docker, Terraform, GitLab jobs and ECS to manage the pipelines.
  • Collected and exposed critical data from 27 different sources to internal clients via Snowflake and Athena.
  • Co-Led the exploration and implementation of Mulesoft as an ETL and API development tool.
  • Built 2 system APIs and 1 process APIs using Mulesoft, for exposing certain data to internal clients, while focusing on API led connectivity.
  • Reduced the response time by 95% for getting data out of a certain internal API to expose data to various teams.
  • Leading the exploration and implementation of the MLOps platform.
  • Extracted data from various sources with data in the form of REST APIs, SQL, NoSQL, Grafana, Mimir, GraphQL.
  • Reconciled data from various sources and presented insights using Tableau dashboards on data discrepancies to key stakeholders.

Data Engineer - Intern, Crypto

May 2022Dec 2022 · 7 mos

  • Architected end-to-end data collection pipelines for various Proof of Stake protocols like Cosmos, Polkadot.
  • Started the Data Analytics initiative for Proof of Stake protocols and generated extremely valuable performance and revenue insights backed by 7 KPIs to optimise operations for certain validator nodes.
  • Designed a custom NLP model for Named Entity Recognition to procure data from unstructured data to replace web scrapers to collect data.

O'reilly

Technical Reviewer

Oct 2023Oct 2024 · 1 yr

Spiritswap

Developer

Jun 2021Aug 2021 · 2 mos · Remote

  • Worked on procuring on-chain data and building the portfolio page and designed metrics that would be useful for end users to see and track portfolio performance.
  • Developed custom APIs for on-chain data procurement for ease of usability by the frontend team.
  • Architected solution from scratch to capture data from multiple sources.
  • Audited certain smart contracts.

Geny labs

Data Science Intern

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Identified a new feature for the organisation’s product, Auris, to help clients leverage user generated content to
  • predict company growth in terms of stock prices.
  • Designed a structure to segregate companies, brands and products and compute Net Promoter Scores through custom formulae leveraging ratings and reviews of products from E-Commerce websites.
  • Collected data through a custom scraper, analysed data (312,857 ratings and 122,123 reviews) and reported in-
  • sights in an orderly manner to the company hierarchy comprising the CEO and CTO on a regular basis.

Widhya

Co-Founder - CEO & Head of Data Science

Nov 2018May 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Handled the Data Science, Technology, Strategy and Marketing teams at Widhya.
  • Recognised at the "Top 10 Fastest Growing E-learning startups" in 2021
  • Introduced a key initiative, the Widhya Beta Program, that allows Widhya to focus on creating content/Missions over open source projects. Focused on a crowd sourcing strategy to develop more quality Missions in shorter time frames.
  • Generated 2 key reports that assist us in approaching students and potential partner companies with metrics regarding Widhya's effectiveness and performance so far and has helped convince and onboard 5 companies in one month.
  • Raised over INR 2L in revenue in the first 5 operational months.
  • Drove a zero-cost marketing strategy which resulted in sales of over INR 50k in a span of 2 days.
  • Scaled from 500 to 15,000 users in a span of 2 months purely by adopting a data driven, 0-cost marketing approach.

Mahindra école centrale

Undergraduate Researcher

Sep 2018May 2019 · 8 mos · Hyderabad

  • Worked under Prof. Amitava Das on understanding the process of radicalization by various extremist groups around the world through social media platforms and predicting whether a user is vulnerable or not.
  • The dataset had been built from scratch and 70 primary nodes have been identified and manually annotated to see how lethal and influential they are.
  • These 70 targets were then used to get 204 million more data points from their first and second hop network and predict user vulnerablility depending on a number of network dynamics measures.
  • Classified users as radical, vulnerable and inert by performing social network analysis and content based analysis based on custom formula to calculate lethality score.
  • Built a Naive Bayes classifier with an accuracy of 79%, while the SVM gave a lesser accuracy to identify radicals and vulnerable people on Twitter.
  • Presented works at 2 major conferences - AI Workshop at IIIT-Hyderabad and IC2S2 2019.

Verzeo

Machine Learning Intern

May 2018Jun 2018 · 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Worked on building and learning about various machine learning models.
  • Took a couple of datasets and used multiple machine learning algorithms to understand which was the best.
  • Worked on SMS and Email Spam Filters.

Mcaffeine

Growth Data Analyst

Nov 2016May 2017 · 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Analyzed product data across various e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, etc. and came up with a way to automate product adoption rates.
  • Scraped negative reviews and built a system to automatically push negative reviews to stakeholders.
  • Studied various e-commerce platforms and suggested the company ways to create and improve brand awareness.
  • Handled various sales initiatives and deployed data driven strategies to improve sales.

Education

University at Buffalo

Master of Science - MS — Data Science

Aug 2021Dec 2022

Mahindra University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2016Jan 2020

Sri Chaitanya Junior Kalasala

Intermediate — MPC

Jan 2014Jan 2016

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