Summary
Abhishek Pillai is a product and engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building AI-first SaaS and marketplace products and scaling teams from early-stage startups to $17M ARR businesses. He’s founded and exited startups, co-founded a low-code AI platform adopted by tens of thousands, and launched AI tools used by 50K+ users—bringing a founder’s bias for rapid experimentation to product leadership roles. At TpT he helped pivot the business to schools, growing a new line from $0 to $17M GMV, and later led multiple edtech AI efforts that secured paid pilots and accelerated adoption. Comfortable shipping across stacks (Rails, React, Python, Langchain, LLMs) and operationalizing ML products, he pairs hands-on engineering with strategic OKR-driven roadmaps. Based in New York, he’s known for doubling time-to-market through technical innovation and for translating classroom needs into practical AI tooling that teachers actually use.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hindi