Summary
Rahul Dharan is a product-minded engineering leader and Co-founder & CTO at Tequity with 11 years of experience building AI-driven, production-grade systems. He specializes in deep learning, NLP, and scalable ML platforms, having led teams that powered core revenue-generating services and handled millions of inference requests per month. At HyperVerge he architected low-latency face-recognition and OCR pipelines, scaled GPU orchestration for inference and training, and built fraud and deepfake detection that processed tens of thousands of events daily. Rahul combines hands-on system design (Kubernetes, Triton, FAISS, observability) with client-facing solutions architecture, routinely taking 0→1 products to product–market fit. He emphasizes resilient, compliant systems—having engineered Aadhaar-compliant workflows that processed 100M+ applications—and a metrics-driven approach to monitor model drift and reliability. Based in Bengaluru, he blends startup grit with enterprise-scale delivery, focusing on technologies that unlock measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
English, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi