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Ankit Kokkeri

The future of search is agentic.

Bengaluru

4+ years of work experience

Neusearch AI
Feb 20251 y 3 moMay 2026

Bengaluru

Founded an AI SaaS product lab that researches and develops AI-native products for agentic commerce • Led an engineering team into design and development of one of India’s first Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platforms fine-tuned for Indian E-commerce brands. • Planned Product roadmaps, developed and deployed a microservices architecture on Azure, with containerized FastAPI backend, message queues, serverless functions and 3rd party LLM API integrations • Designed and developed a multi-agent cross-sell optimisation engine for e-commerce that reasons over customer history, and executes personalised outreach; Developed an Agentic RAG-based shopping assistant for e-commerce brands hosted on Shopify • Raised an angel round from a founding member of Jupiter.money within 2 months of building • Launched marketing campaigns, conducted demos for prospective clients; Turned revenue positive within 3 months of incorporation •Pitched the product and vision to interested investors and closed an acquisition deal within 10 months of incorporation
Family Business
Mar 20245 mosJul 2024

Short 4-month project
Crio.Do
Dec 20221 yr 4 mosMar 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led high-impact Product initiatives across onboarding experience, user journey and branding. • Achieved 40% increase in NPS within 2 months by redesigning the onboarding process; Developed a robust user segmentation criterion that determines customized journeys tailored to individual needs • Created PRDs after conducting an in-depth analysis of user onboarding journeys by carrying out 50+ user interviews, shadowing users and their interaction with POCs and mapping pain-points • Launched a Brand campaign as a part of GTM for Crio’s newest product offering that garnered 1,30,000+ impressions on LinkedIn; Worked closely with Crio’s founder, marketing and design team to plan and co-ordinate the launch • Carried out extensive competitor research and planned a new product offering, eventually leading to a successful product launch • Shadowed users, created and tested new variations and redesigned Crio’s top-performing product to improve NPS and user retention
Self-Employed
Aug 20219 mosApr 2022

• Acquired and engaged with 2 clients, redesigned and migrated their websites to standalone-hosting for increased customizability, thereby decreasing dependence on no-code tools • Self-taught web development tech-stack, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and core Blockchain Technology though online courses, with over 200+ hours of learning and experience • Built a Facebook scraping tool that gathers and processes group posts for marketing and lead generation; Increased data gathering efficiency by 99.6%
MathCo
Jan 20201 y 5 moJun 2021

Bengaluru

Designed simple, human-centric and scalable solutions for businesses using Math, Engineering and Design - Achieved $95,000 annual costs savings by spearheading the re-development of legacy SAS analytical processes into a modern and scalable solution, for a US-based luxury fashion retailer - Streamlined data processing operations for a Fortune 50 Retail Corporation resulting in 7% increased packing efficiency during transportation of retail products - Designed a Pricing Simulator for a leading beverage company, and recommended pricing strategies that resulted in a 16.7% increase in revenue - Trained a 20-member analytics team of a US-based fashion retailer on Python, SQL and Snowflake, by conducting 15+ webinars

Ankit’s AI Stack

aistudio
aistudio
anthropic apis
anthropic apis
antigravity
antigravity
codex
codex
cursor
cursor
gemini
gemini
langchain
langchain
langgraph
langgraph
opencode
opencode
claudecode
claudecode
ChatGPT
ChatGPT
OpenAI Playground
OpenAI Playground
OpenRouter
OpenRouter
PydanticAI
PydanticAI
Supabase
Supabase

Education

Stoa

Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

Stoa

20222022
Manipal Academy of Higher Education

BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Manipal Academy of Higher Education

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Headline

The future of search is agentic.

About

Think. Solve. Evaluate. Think again. Solve again. Product nerd with a quirk for design and analytics. Perpetual Tinkerer on a mission to build something cool.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

aistudio

anthropic apis

antigravity

codex

cursor

gemini

langchain

langgraph

opencode

claudecode

ChatGPT

OpenAI Playground

OpenRouter

PydanticAI

Supabase

Work experience

Co-Founder & CTO at Neusearch AI, Feb 2025 - May 2026 · 1 y 3 mo, Bengaluru, Founded an AI SaaS product lab that researches and develops AI-native products for agentic commerce • Led an engineering team into design and development of one of India’s first Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platforms fine-tuned for Indian E-commerce brands. • Planned Product roadmaps, developed and deployed a microservices architecture on Azure, with containerized FastAPI backend, message queues, serverless functions and 3rd party LLM API integrations • Designed and developed a multi-agent cross-sell optimisation engine for e-commerce that reasons over customer history, and executes personalised outreach; Developed an Agentic RAG-based shopping assistant for e-commerce brands hosted on Shopify • Raised an angel round from a founding member of Jupiter.money within 2 months of building • Launched marketing campaigns, conducted demos for prospective clients; Turned revenue positive within 3 months of incorporation •Pitched the product and vision to interested investors and closed an acquisition deal within 10 months of incorporation

Consultant at Family Business, Mar 2024 - Jul 2024 · 5 mos, Short 4-month project

Associate Product Manager at Crio.Do, Dec 2022 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led high-impact Product initiatives across onboarding experience, user journey and branding. • Achieved 40% increase in NPS within 2 months by redesigning the onboarding process; Developed a robust user segmentation criterion that determines customized journeys tailored to individual needs • Created PRDs after conducting an in-depth analysis of user onboarding journeys by carrying out 50+ user interviews, shadowing users and their interaction with POCs and mapping pain-points • Launched a Brand campaign as a part of GTM for Crio’s newest product offering that garnered 1,30,000+ impressions on LinkedIn; Worked closely with Crio’s founder, marketing and design team to plan and co-ordinate the launch • Carried out extensive competitor research and planned a new product offering, eventually leading to a successful product launch • Shadowed users, created and tested new variations and redesigned Crio’s top-performing product to improve NPS and user retention

Web Developer at Self-Employed, Aug 2021 - Apr 2022 · 9 mos, • Acquired and engaged with 2 clients, redesigned and migrated their websites to standalone-hosting for increased customizability, thereby decreasing dependence on no-code tools • Self-taught web development tech-stack, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and core Blockchain Technology though online courses, with over 200+ hours of learning and experience • Built a Facebook scraping tool that gathers and processes group posts for marketing and lead generation; Increased data gathering efficiency by 99.6%

Data Analyst at MathCo, Jan 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 y 5 mo, Bengaluru, Designed simple, human-centric and scalable solutions for businesses using Math, Engineering and Design - Achieved $95,000 annual costs savings by spearheading the re-development of legacy SAS analytical processes into a modern and scalable solution, for a US-based luxury fashion retailer - Streamlined data processing operations for a Fortune 50 Retail Corporation resulting in 7% increased packing efficiency during transportation of retail products - Designed a Pricing Simulator for a leading beverage company, and recommended pricing strategies that resulted in a 16.7% increase in revenue - Trained a 20-member analytics team of a US-based fashion retailer on Python, SQL and Snowflake, by conducting 15+ webinars

Education

Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Stoa

BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Manipal Academy of Higher Education