Summary
Sachin Dharashivkar is a CEO and machine learning engineer with 9 years of experience building production-grade AI and deep reinforcement learning solutions, currently leading AthenaAgent from Bengaluru. He has founded multiple AI startups (IntelLawyer, AIVetaal, DeepAnalytics) that applied ML to legal search, conversational intent, and education, demonstrating a streak of product-focused research. His background includes applied RL research and engineering roles at Unity, FutureWei, and Samsung Research, plus software engineering at JPMorgan, giving him a mix of research, systems, and enterprise software experience. Notably, his Unity internship combined natural-language state/action representations with tree-search-guided value learning—an uncommon intersection of NLP and RL. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and is actively focused on shipping mission-critical AI agents for global enterprises.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Information Technology, First Class, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Information Technology, First Class at Maharashtra Academy of Engineering
English, Hindi, Marathi