Ritwik Saikia is a seasoned founder and CTO with 13 years of experience building product-led, scalable systems across mobile, advertising, security, and AI. He led the inception and scaling of Glance into a native lock-screen product preinstalled on top OEMs, and now heads Pikup.ai, applying deep learning and autonomous-store concepts to real-world retail. Equally comfortable hacking prototypes and architecting distributed production systems, he built large-scale ad screening clusters at Yahoo and a full mobile ad stack on AWS. A repeat hackathon winner (TechCrunch Disrupt) and early serial hacker, he brings rapid prototyping instincts to long-term productization and OEM-level integrations. Based in Karnataka, India, he blends hands-on engineering, UX sensibility, and security-first thinking to turn bold ideas into robust, high-scale products.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Information Technology, B.Tech, Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad
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Ritwik Saikia - CTO Founder at Pikup.ai Autonomous Stores