Ayush Kanodia is a founder and AI-focused technologist with 11 years of experience building production systems and research-driven products at the intersection of large models and recommendation systems. Currently co-founding a stealth AI startup after leading product and engineering as Co-Founder & CTO at MoveUp AI, he specializes in foundation-model based knowledge-consumption and agent-first career tools. His background includes hands-on engineering at Google Text-to-Speech and research internships at Microsoft Research and IST Austria, and he is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at Stanford, blending rigorous research with product delivery. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs deep algorithmic roots from IIT Bombay with economics training, which informs his data-driven approach to product-market fit. An active early investor and repeat founder, he brings both technical depth and a taste for building surprising, user-centered AI experiences.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
ISC (Standard 12) Science, ISC (Standard 12) Science at Don Bosco Park Circus, Kolkata
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
Python Utilities, pandas, dask, matplotlib and the usual
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