Summary
Rohan Kulkarni is a Berkeley-based software engineer and founder with nine years of experience building AI-driven products and infrastructure across fintech, agentic AI, and embedded telemetry. As Co-Founder and CEO of ashr and previously of Geri AI (acquired), he has shipped production systems that leverage vector databases, LangChain, sentiment analysis, and real-time telemetry for low-connectivity environments. He combines full-stack engineering chops with a founder’s product sensibility—designing cloud data pipelines, live race-car telemetry, and digital assistants for retirement homes. A Schmidt Futures Rise finalist, he pairs technical depth from UC Berkeley EECS with hands-on field work, from deploying offline Swahili e-learning to racing telemetry. Notably, his portfolio and playful GitHub presence hint at curiosity for exploratory, agentic systems and low-level network sniffing that inform pragmatic, security-aware design.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Vista Del Lago High School