Summary
Pavneet Ahluwalia is a product leader with ~6 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms, currently shaping IaaS offerings at Together AI after leading AKS scale, performance, and AI-driven experiences at Microsoft. He has a rare blend of product, data science, and go-to-market expertise honed across AWS, Google, McKinsey and early venture investing in tech and sustainability. Pavneet has repeatedly translated deep technical tradeoffs into customer-facing roadmaps—re-architecting control planes, launching new pricing tiers, and shipping AI integrations that moved projects into CNCF. An entrepreneur at heart, he co-founded three startups by age 21 and later evaluated early-stage bets as a VC fellow. He pairs an MBA from Michigan with hands-on analytics roots, and outside work mentors MBA/MS students pursuing consulting and tech careers. Notably, his work balances platform engineering rigor with commercialization instincts that drive both reliability and monetization.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Exchange Business Administration and Management General, MBA Exchange Business Administration and Management General at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General at University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Chemical Engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology
Hindi, English, Punjabi