Summary
Jayprakash Agastya is a technology and engineering leader with over two decades of experience building large-scale, user-facing platforms and AI-driven products across healthcare, entertainment, and operating systems. He led engineering efforts at Comcast that helped transform traditional TV into the Emmy-winning X1 interactive platform serving millions of daily devices, and now heads AI-driven claims products at Highmark Health to improve efficiency and affordability. His background spans foundational work on Windows device connectivity, cellular protocols and DRM at LG, and early biometrics and embedded systems, giving him a rare blend of systems-level depth and product sensibility. A serial entrepreneur, he founded a privacy-focused social networking startup that applied context-sensitive matchmaking long before mainstream interest in micro-targeted social discovery. He combines formal executive education from Wharton and McCombs in CTO leadership and AI/ML with hands-on delivery, bridging data science, cloud engineering, and product to take models from prototype to production. Known for pragmatic innovation, he focuses on scalable, reliable architectures that translate complex technical capabilities into measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Chief Technology Officer Program, Chief Technology Officer Program at Wharton Executive Education
Post Graduate Program in AI & ML: Business Applications Artificial Intelligence, Post Graduate Program in AI & ML: Business Applications Artificial Intelligence at Texas McCombs School of Business
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at University of Mysore