Saahil Ognawala
Head Of Artificial Intelligence at Certivity
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolSaahil Ognawala is a Head of Artificial Intelligence with 16 years of experience building and launching multimodal AI products, blending deep research roots (PhD from TUM) with product and go-to-market leadership. He has led teams to ship search foundation models, scalable model distribution services, and cloud semantic search offerings, while driving partnerships with databases, hyperscalers and customers. His background spans knowledge graphs, NLP, MLOps and entity-reconciliation systems for enterprise use (notably at Munich Re), giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and production-grade engineering. He routinely combines user interviews and market research with technical design to turn insights into monetizable products, and has grown pre-revenue offerings into recurring revenue. Based in Munich, he still contributes code and research—most recently visible through activity associated with the TUM i22 organization—bringing a practitioner’s eye to both model innovation and operational deployment.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering at Manipal Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
English, German
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Github Skills (90)
coverage9
control-flow9
clip9
klee9
nlp8
static-analysis8
modular8
program-analysis8
generative8
low-level8
pytorch8
mongodb8
neural-search7
deep-learning7
vulnerability-research7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tum-i4/macke
Oct 2015 - Nov 2019
Modular And Compositional analysis with KLEE Engine
Contributions:2 releases, 102 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 1 month
control-flowkleemodularprogram-analysisstatic-analysis
saahil/saahil.github.io
Sep 2015 - Oct 2024
Pages
Contributions:6 PRs, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
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