Asankhaya Sharma is a serial founder and technology leader with 14+ years building security-focused and AI-driven products across startups and enterprises, currently pioneering inference-time compute with projects like OptiLLM and OpenEvolve. As co-founder and CTO of Patched.Codes (YC S24) he led development of an open-code LLM and novel SAG/SAGA approaches to automate secure, multi-file code fixes, and previously built award-winning generative-AI video analytics at Securade.ai. He blends deep research (PhD-level work and adjunct professorships) with operator experience scaling teams at Veracode, SourceClear and Microsoft, consistently turning research into production systems. An active investor and advisor through Okya Ventures, he focuses on AI/ML, deep tech and enterprise SaaS, and publishes practical guidance on modern software delivery. Not obvious: he has a track record of incubating tech-for-good projects and open-sourcing core safety tooling to maximize social impact.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering at National Institute of Technology Warangal
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
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