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Ashok Kumar

Founding AI Engineer @ PowerUp Money

Bengaluru

5+ years of work experience

PowerUp Money
Jul 20251 yr 2 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pepsales AI
Dec 20248 mosJul 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pepsales AI
Sep 20244 mosDec 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building Pepsales
Entrepreneur First
Jul 20234 mosOct 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

K12 Techno Services Pvt. Ltd.
Jun 20231 yr 3 mosAug 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Subspace - Grow90
Jul 20213 yrsJun 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Ashok’s AI Stack

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Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor's degree

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

20194 yrs2023

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Headline

Founding AI Engineer @ PowerUp Money

About

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

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Founding AI Engineer at PowerUp Money, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Technical Lead at Pepsales AI, Dec 2024 - Jul 2025 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Founding Engineer at Pepsales AI, Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building Pepsales

Entrepreneur in Residence at Entrepreneur First, Jul 2023 - Oct 2023 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Developer at K12 Techno Services Pvt. Ltd., Jun 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Co-Founder at Subspace - Grow90, Jul 2021 - Jun 2024 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Bachelor's degree, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Public links

github: https://github.com/Ashok-Kumar9

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