Usha Upadhyayula
AI Product Development RAG Azure AI Services at iFoster
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUsha Upadhyayula is an AI product development leader with 9 years of experience blending technology, product, and sales to deliver practical enterprise solutions from Silicon Valley. Currently at iFoster she’s building an agentic RAG framework on Azure AI Services that automates multi-step workflows and stitches external data and services for reliable, verifiable outcomes rather than simple chat. Her decade-plus tenure at Intel spanned product evangelism, pre-sales technical support, and developer enablement for Optane, Xeon, and NVMe platforms, translating deep technical detail into compelling sales and developer messaging. She excels at bridging engineering and go-to-market teams—running training, roadmaps, and partner programs to accelerate adoption and design wins. Trained at MIT Sloan on AI strategy and grounded in systems-level engineering, she brings both business strategy and hands-on technical chops to AI productization. A less obvious strength: she repeatedly turns complex hardware/software constraints into clear value propositions that drive customer buy-in and production ramps.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy Artificial Intelligence at MIT Sloan School of ManagementMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at University of South Carolina
Github Skills (2)
java3
swig2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pmemhackathon/2019-04-17
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
2019 SPDK PMDK VTune Summit Hands-on Lab
Contributions:28 commits, 28 pushes in 3 days
pmdkhands-onspdkvtunehands
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