Summary
Hareesh Kumar is a pragmatic AI-focused CTO with 9 years of experience building and scaling data-driven products across healthcare, education, and consumer AI in India. As a founding engineer turned AI strategist, he has led end-to-end launches—from a 3-minute medical diagnosis system with >97% accuracy to a 125M-user Indic consumer chatbot and a suite of 20-language LLMs—while also bootstrapping platforms that achieved 95%+ retention. He blends academic rigour (MTech in ML/RL from IIT Bombay) with hands-on product velocity, owning data strategy, training/benchmarking of large models, and rapid iteration under tight timelines. Comfortable at the intersection of vision, metrics, and engineering, Hareesh is equally at home shipping production systems and experimenting with new model-driven user experiences, embodying a continual learning mindset of learning, unlearning, and relearning.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Future Founders, Make something people want., Future Founders, Make something people want. at Y Combinator
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
s3 and s4, s3 and s4 at buildspace
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences
Hindi, English, Tamil