Kartik Sawhney
Co-Founder at Samora AI (YC W26)
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKartik Sawhney is a tech entrepreneur and AI engineer with 11 years of experience building multimodal and voice-first systems, currently co-founding Samora AI (YC W26) and I-Stem to deliver multilingual voice agents and accessible content at scale. He combines deep product and research chops from roles at Microsoft (Cortana, Accessibility Innovation), IBM Research and Uber with Stanford-trained AI and HCI expertise to ship robust, production-ready models and services. His ventures have impacted over 500,000 people with disabilities, partnering with governments and organizations like UNICEF and the UN, and have earned top global honors including the Queen’s Young Leaders Award and India’s National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities. Equally comfortable coding core ML components and shaping strategy, Kartik is now focused on commercial and impact-oriented voice AI that gracefully escalates to humans when needed. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of turning research prototypes into widely adopted accessibility tools used by product teams and policymakers.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High school, High school at Delhi Public School - R. K. PuramM.S., Computer Science (artificial intelligence), M.S., Computer Science (artificial intelligence) at Stanford University
English, Hindi, French, Punjabi
Github Skills (24)
foundry8
flash7
build-environment7
stem6
prediction6
react6
checker5
javascript5
accessibility4
axe4
classification4
wcag4
nlp3
lighthouse3
word2vec3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
I-Stem/istem-website
Apr 2018 - May 2019
Repo for the I-Stem website
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes in 1 year 1 month
stem
sawhney-kartik/Emma-disability-assistant
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 days
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