Founding AI Engineer @ PowerUp Money

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India







Bachelor's degree
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
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Software Engineer and Startup Founder specializing in AI, backend, and early stage startups. Currently serving as a Founding AI Engineer at PowerUp Money, developing cutting-edge AI native financial products using LLMs, RAG Pipelines, Retrieval systems, and data infra. In the last few years, my work experience has been with Fintech, AI copilots, real-time architectures, and consumer products, scaling products up to 200K+ users and implementing production-ready AI systems and distributed architectures. Prior Work Experience: • Co-founder at Subspace, scaled to over 200K users and monthly revenue of ₹50L+ • Engineering Lead at Pepsales AI, developed real-time architectures and microservice infra • Developed various production applications across mobile, backend and cloud services I am passionate about building new products from scratch and tackling difficult engineering challenges and delivering impact-driven results via close collaboration with users. Areas of interest: • AI/LLMs • RAG & Retrieval Infra • Backend and Distributed Systems • Real-Time Architectures • Product engineering/startup
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Founding AI Engineer at PowerUp Money, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Bachelor's degree, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
github: https://github.com/Ashok-Kumar9