Summary
Rohit Agarwal is a seasoned product and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling AI-first SaaS products, currently co-founding Portkey to make generative AI reliable, observable, and cost-efficient in production. He has led product and AI teams at Pepper and Freshworks and previously founded Framebench, giving him deep expertise in taking consumer-like APIs from PoC to resilient, production-grade services. At Portkey he focuses on observability, multi-provider AI gateways, semantic caching, prompt management, and continuous eval/fine-tuning—delivering measurable improvements in accuracy, latency, and cost. Based in San Francisco and backed by notable investors and executives across the AI ecosystem, he blends operator experience with a founder’s instinct for developer tooling. A practical builder at heart, he pairs platform thinking with hands-on product strategy to close the gap between experimental models and scalable customer features.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
High School, High School at Lancers Convent
Hindi, English