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Meet the Team

We're building AI agents that reason over millions of documents, turning weeks of expert analysis into minutes. Here's the crew making it happen.

3
ICPC World Finalists
40+
Patents
3
Countries

Founders

Repeat founders with deep technical and domain expertise

Abhay Mitra

Co-founder & CEO
  • Founded Nirvana Insurance ($1.5B valuation) Co-founder & CTO, raised $170M, scaled to 200+ employees
  • Staff Engineer / Platform Lead at Rubrik: led largest eng team (20+), shipped industry-first ransomware mitigation product
  • 15+ granted patents in distributed systems, data protection & cloud migration
  • Built petabyte-scale data lake on Apache Spark & real-time TSDB on Apache Druid
  • IIT Delhi, Computer Science

Arijit Banerjee

Co-founder
  • Engineer #20 at Rubrik (now $15B): core team that built petabyte-scale distributed filesystem
  • Head of Engineering India at RelicX (acquired by Harness)
  • Tech Lead for Rubrik platform team: 20+ SKUs, 10k nodes, 25 engineers
  • 10+ patents on Continuous Data Protection; Linux kernel contributor (fuse subsystem patches accepted)
  • ICPC World Finals 2012, TopCoder 2000+, Best Demo Award SIGMOD 2015
  • MSCS Stanford, IIT JEE Rank 167

Kunal Singhal

Co-founder & CTO
  • Founding Engineer at WisdomAI
  • Built Grammarly's first communication assistant
  • 2× ICPC World Finals
  • IOI 2012, represented India at International Olympiad in Informatics
  • International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) & Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) Silver Medalist
  • All India Rank 18 in IIT JEE

Engineering

World-class builders from Rubrik, Inflection AI, Google, Grammarly, and top CS programs

Suman Swaroop

Founding Engineer
  • 15+ patents at Rubrik: Continuous Data Protection & Salesforce Protection
  • Engineering Excellence Award winner at Rubrik
  • Multiple hackathon winner; Tech Lead managing 7+ engineers
  • Built CLAP at IIT Bombay: Microsoft-sponsored platform for multilingual speech data
  • JEE Advanced Rank 273; cleared KVPY, Physics Olympiad, Science Olympiads

Mohan Garimella

Founding Engineer
  • Rubrik Distributed Database Team: built cloud-agnostic metadata store on CockroachDB
  • Contributed to Kronos (distributed time sync) & sysfail (failure injection testing)
  • ICPC World Finals 2021, Asia West Regional Champion
  • IIT Kanpur, 9.7/10 GPA: academic excellence awards every eligible semester
  • Codeforces Master, Codechef Orange

Parthav Shergill

Founding Engineer
  • Inflection AI: Text2SQL agent design, data platform engineering, mechinterp for user simulation
  • Previously Amazon
  • Graph ML research at California Academy of Sciences; ML for network analysis at Stanford CESTA
  • TomKat Energy Fellowship: flood risk modeling at HighTide Intelligence
  • Stanford BS (Phi Beta Kappa, 4.04 GPA)
  • Grand Prize Winner: London School of Economics Essay Contest

Inwook Baek

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
  • Co-founder, Cognivent AI: chat-driven enterprise LLM analytics platform
  • Core engineer at SmartMind AI (KOSDAQ IPO track 2027): built ThanoSQL, backbone of natural-language data query platform
  • 10+ patents in AI and distributed data systems
  • National R&D DX Program researcher: industrial ML systems
  • Co-founder, Boxwash: on-demand car wash platform (Uber model)
  • UC Berkeley: Cognitive Science + CS minor

Jonathan Vandamme

Founding Engineer
  • Grammarly: 6+ years as core product engineer
  • CGI: built UI component library for Hydro-Quebec; full-stack for World Anti-Doping Agency
  • Built safety-critical embedded control systems for medical devices (IEC 13485/62304/60601 compliant)
  • CAE: flight simulator development for military
  • Sherbrooke: MS Biomedical Engineering, BS Mechanical (Aeronautics)

Sarang Sridhar

Founding Engineer
  • AAAI'25 workshop paper: agents for clinical conversation understanding
  • Penn PRECISE Centre: research on general-purpose medical AI agents
  • UPenn School of Medicine: developed few-shot segmentation algorithm for MRI scans
  • Previously MLOps at Philips: medical imaging pipelines
  • UPenn MSCS, BITS Pilani CS

Rahul Kadyan

Software Engineer
  • Grammarly: built gOS (Grammarly Operating System), a universal framework shipping to macOS, Windows & browser extensions
  • Created Text Editor SDK for the Grammarly for Developers platform
  • Patent holder; Google Summer of Code Fellow (INCF)
  • IIT Guwahati, B.Tech Computer Science & Technology

Ruyan Chen

Founding Software Engineer
  • Google (6+ years): Search and Ads core teams, built developer experience tooling and shipped low-latency systems at scale
  • Vanta: early AI product engineering lead, drove Trust and AI Developer Experience products from concept to launch
  • Corporate speaker on career growth and AI adoption for non-technical teams at technical organizations
  • USC, BS Computer Science

Ignat Blazhko

Founding Software Engineer
  • Grammarly: Staff ML Engineer, led NLP model development powering writing suggestions for 30M+ daily users
  • Built production ML pipelines for text quality scoring and style transfer at scale
  • Deep expertise in NLP, information extraction, and applied ML for complex text domains
  • National University of Kyiv, Computer Science

Operations

Scaling teams and systems at hypergrowth startups

Cris McGowan

Head of Talent
  • Scaled Effective AI from 4 to 16 employees across 3 countries in 6 months
  • Built entire people & recruiting infrastructure from scratch (HRIS, ATS, payroll, equity)
  • Company award winner for driving rapid growth through high-velocity talent acquisition
  • Consistently top performer across all roles
  • Previously Gem, Nirvana Insurance, Chime, DoorDash
  • MBA Marketing (FGV), Project Management Cert (UC Berkeley)

Anuj Patel

BizOps Lead
  • Previously Director of Business Operations at Tonic.ai: owned pricing, partnerships, GTM, FP&A, and data engineering
  • Founding Associate at Octave: supported founders building data-first companies
  • Analysis Group: 4 years as Senior Analyst (economic consulting)
  • Stanford University School of Medicine: research (2+ years)
  • Stanford BS (Honors), Michigan Ross MBA (with Distinction, Entrepreneurship & Finance)

Go-to-Market

Deep domain expertise and enterprise sales DNA

Rishabh Sonkhiya

Domain Expert
  • Senior Actuarial Consultant: pricing, reserving, and risk modeling expertise
  • Previously Swiss Re (global reinsurer), AXA, Grant Thornton
  • Published 4-part IFRS 17 knowledge series (GMM, PAA, VFA frameworks)
  • Experience across life, health, and P&C actuarial domains
  • Institute of Actuaries of India, MBA Finance

Scott Huisinga

Sr. Actuarial Solutions Consultant
  • Branch Insurance: Head of Actuarial, built the function from scratch
  • Chaired Reserving Committee; implemented catastrophic event reserving methodologies; led reinsurance treaty placement
  • Allstate: Actuarial Pricing Manager directing pricing strategy for auto, home & specialty personal lines
  • Evaluated and implemented third-party vendor products from the buyer's seat
  • FCAS, MAAA; National Merit Scholar
  • University of Alabama, Finance (Actuarial Science specialization)
Aayush Gupta

Aayush Gupta

Actuarial Consultant
  • US P&C Actuarial Consultant: Pricing, reserving, rate indications, segmentation & compliance
  • Multiple US insurers: Supported pricing, reserve opinions, product launches & actuarial tools
  • ~5 years in P&C: Experience across property, auto & workers' compensation
  • Automation: Built Python & VBA tools to reduce manual actuarial workflows and improve QC
  • Team leadership: Led team of 4 across consulting & product initiatives
  • AIAI: Associate Actuary, Institute of Actuaries of India
  • M.Sc. Mathematics
Jeffrey Durham

Jeffrey Durham

AI Deployment Strategist
  • Insurance transformation leader: Worked with carriers, MGAs, and specialty insurers to modernize actuarial, underwriting, and product operations
  • Product rating architecture, actuarial analytics, specialty insurance, and technology-enabled operating models
  • EY: Senior Manager, Insurance & Actuarial Advisory; Pricing and Rating Center of Excellence
  • Surplus lines: Priced property and liability risks across commercial and personal lines
  • FCAS; first graduate of ASU's actuarial science program

Jacob Couture

Enterprise Account Executive
  • 7 years of full-cycle B2B sales, progressed from SDR to Enterprise AE
  • Founding AE at Amplemarket: built the sales motion from scratch, closed $1.7M+ in new business, scaled team from Seed to Series A in under two years
  • Consistently ranked #1 AE in self-sourced new business at Collectly
  • Purdue University, double BS in Finance and Business Administration, Minor in Entrepreneurship
  • Orr Fellow, Class of 2019 (top 5% nationally selected)