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title: "Ashok Kumar - Founding AI Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ashok Kumar, Founding AI Engineer @ PowerUp Money based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and claude. Explore public work links including github."
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# Ashok Kumar on Tal

## 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

antigravity

claude code

claude

cursor

opencode

claudecode

## 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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