Yogesh Maheshwari

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 2 mos experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Raised $5M in seed funding for AI projects
Launched India's first Whatsapp LLM chatbot
Drove $3M in ARR through marketplace innovation

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI expert with a focus on product management and engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai/llm LeadershipProduct & Business ImpactEngineering ManagementProduct ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AndroidAndroid SDKAzure Service BusBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCC++ContainerizationCore JavaData AnalysisDirector levelGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Google Gemini

About

I am a versatile technology leader with 14+ years of experience spanning deep technical expertise, product strategy, and executive leadership (Co-founder & CTO). My core value is driving quantifiable results and scale: ➤ AI/LLM Leadership: Successfully raised $5M in seed funding and architected high-scale, multi-cloud LLM infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) to deliver market-leading AI products. ➤ Product & Business Impact: Led blended teams (Engineering, Design, Research) to secure over $10M ARR in enterprise deals through strategic product delivery. ➤ Technical Excellence: Proven ability to build and scale products from MVP to 10M+ monthly active users (MAUs). I excel at bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology and market needs, cultivating high-performing teams, and turning ambitious concepts into profitable, reliable products.

Experience

14 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Rumik.ai

Co-Founder and CTO

Jun 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

➤ Strategic Leadership & Funding: Raised $5M in seed funding and secured over $350K in cloud credits from providers including Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, OpenAI, and MongoDB.
➤ LLM & AI Infrastructure: Architected a multi-cloud strategy (Azure, GCP, AWS) to fully utilize credits and support peak performance of 6,000 requests/minute and 200K+ MAUs.
➤ Product & Engineering Velocity: Led end-to-end engineering to launch the cross-platform app, delivering a hyper-personalized AI companion using LLMs and a strong memory layer.
➤ Market-First Innovation: Launched India's first Whatsapp LLM chatbot with advanced memory and hyper-personalization features, expanding market reach and distribution.
➤ Advanced Experimentation: Implemented robust model and prompt testing frameworks (Langchain, Azure AI foundry) to drive rapid development, achieving a 4.8-star app rating and a user happiness analysis system that boosted retention.
➤ Core Technology & Operations: Built the platform on React Native/Expo and Azure Container Apps, leveraging Service Bus for reliable processing, MongoDB/Redis/S3/Blob Storage for data, and Cloudflare, Azure Monitor, and PagerDuty for security, distribution, and operational excellence.

PythonNode.jsReact NativeMicrosoft AzureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)+13

Unlearn product

Mentor

Jun 2024 – Jun 2024 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Guided passionate teams in transforming basic ideas into fully-fledged products, navigating the entire product lifecycle.

Stealth mode

Founder

Jan 2024 – Jun 2024 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Zendrive

4 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

➤ Led a multi-functional organization of 30+ developers and testers supported by 3 reporting managers, maintaining high team motivation and performance during organizational downsizing.
➤ Drove $3M in ARR by helping launch the Zendrive IQL marketplace and generated an additional $130K in ARR with the launch of the DriveGuru and SteadyDrive B2C applications.
➤ Managed engineering operations for high-scale mobile libraries (10M+ MAUs) and AWS infrastructure for B2C applications (10K+ DAUs), ensuring robust performance and stability.
➤ Implemented critical organizational and technical strategy, including a major team restructuring based on Team Topologies and the development of a white-labeled service strategy.
➤ Established comprehensive talent management programs, including competency frameworks for individual performance and customized development plans for all managers and team members.

Director levelEngineering Management

Senior Product/Engineering Manager

Mar 2019 – Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos

➤ Led end-to-end product development for 4 mobile products from ideation to release, managing a high-performing team of 13 developers, UX designers, and researchers.
➤ Generated over $2M in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) by launching a new commercial lines insurance application.
➤ Accelerated over 90% of the sales pipeline and tripled the technical evaluation success rate by launching a dedicated new technical evaluation app.
➤ Established Design and Research Excellence by leading design team efforts, defining a design system in Figma for consistent branding, and reducing support tickets by over 50% through proactive customer engagement (webinars, industry events).
➤ Drove strategic decisions via market research, persona definition, and cost analysis, achieving a team satisfaction score of 4.1/5 and near-perfect sales satisfaction scores for all managed products.

Engineering ManagementProduct Management

Tech Lead / Product Manager

Promoted

Dec 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

➤ Drove Product Strategy and UX: Established Zendrive as the user experience leader by implementing design thinking and a formal Product Requirements Document (PRD) process across the organization.
➤ Bridged Engineering and Business: Managed the iOS SDK and mobile app engineering team (3 engineers) while producing detailed product, engineering design, and implementation documents to align sales, marketing, and data science.
➤ Secured Enterprise Revenue: Acted as the resident expert on mobile app design and development for sales efforts, directly contributing to closing enterprise deals totaling over $10M in ARR.
➤ Boosted Quality & Collaboration: Significantly boosted cross-functional collaboration and product quality by standardizing documentation (PRDs, engineering design, implementation) across teams.

Engineering ManagementProduct Management

Tech Lead - Mobile Apps and SDK Engineering

Aug 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos

➤ Delivered industry-leading stability (sub-0.1% crash rate) and efficiency (20%+ better battery performance than competitors) for the Zendrive mobile SDKs.
➤ Led the development and launch of the Zendrive iOS SDK, and contributed technical expertise to the Android SDK launch, including on-device data analysis implementations.
➤ Drove data-collection experiments and analysis (R, Python, Spark) to continuously optimize the core platform algorithm performance.
➤ Recognized with the Founders Award (2015) and Speedy Gonzalvez Award (2014) for outstanding impact.

Engineering ManagementSoftware Development

Self employed

Software Consultant

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos

➤ Consulted with early-stage startups to shape and launch their initial product offerings

Freecharge

Software Developer

Jan 2014 – May 2014 · 4 mos

Talentica software

Software Developer

May 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Pune

➤ Launched 6+ products from zero to one, contributing across design, development, and release.
➤ Worked end-to-end with cross-functional teams to turn concepts into live consumer apps.