Summary
Kartik Rustagi is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling AI-driven products and teams, currently leading AI engineering at Docker after driving Amazon Bedrock Agents, Guardrails, and Agentic AI at AWS. He has a track record of taking products from 0-to-1 and scaling them to multi-million ARR and thousands of customers across advertising, retail, and cloud, while growing teams from startups to 50+ engineers. Deeply versed in generative AI, agent orchestration, and responsible AI safeguards, he combines hands-on system design with product strategy and compliance for enterprise adoption. Notably, he led delivery of industry-first multimodal bi-directional streaming APIs and internal model-evaluation tooling that became public offerings, reflecting a bias for building reusable platform capabilities. Based in Seattle, he pairs cloud-native engineering rigor with customer-facing experience to operationalize complex ML lifecycles at scale.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BE Information Technology, BE Information Technology at Delhi College of Engineering