Summary
Prabhjot Rai is a Platform Technical Lead based in Hyderabad with 10 years of experience building resilient, distributed ML systems and production platforms. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to technical leadership across startups and enterprises—most recently leading platform work at ISHI Health after AI and senior engineering roles at Nophin (YC W22), Persistent Systems, and Flyhomes. Prabhjot combines a strong academic foundation (MS in Computer Science, AI studies at Stanford, and a B.Tech from IIT Roorkee) with practical experience shipping scalable, fault-tolerant ML/infra in both research and product settings. He’s known for making systems “that don’t fall over,” translating ML prototypes into reliable services and operating at the intersection of model development, infrastructure, and deployment. An engineer who values robustness over novelty, he brings a pragmatic focus on observability, automation, and long-term operability.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.), 8.314, Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.), 8.314 at IIT Roorkee
Minor, Mathematics, 4, Minor, Mathematics, 4 at University of Minnesota
Graduate NDO, Artificial Intelligence, 3.614, Graduate NDO, Artificial Intelligence, 3.614 at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Punjabi