Summary
Kautuk Kundan is a founder and systems engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience building high-performance infrastructure across blockchain and AI. He previously founded Stackr Labs, shipping a rollup framework that raised $5.5M from top investors, and contributed novel rollup and wallet implementations at the Ethereum Foundation. Today he leads Conscious Engines, pioneering “artificial consciousness” systems that enable models to observe, act, and initiate proactively rather than merely react. His background spans protocol engineering (Livepeer), on-chain data modeling (Spectral Finance), and short-form research stints focused on efficient reasoning and tool-calling models. Known for shipping pragmatic, low-latency systems, he blends deep crypto protocol experience with an insistence on extreme speed and proactivity in AI agents. An underappreciated thread in his work is repeatedly turning research prototypes into production-ready, investor-backed products.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University