--- title: "AYUSH NIGAM - Co-Founder and CTO in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal" description: "Meet AYUSH NIGAM, Co-Founder & CTO @ Koncepts | Building for the love of IB based in Greater Bengaluru Area." image: "https://tal.club/meet/ayush-nigam-2/share-image" --- # AYUSH NIGAM on Tal ## Headline Co\-Founder & CTO @ Koncepts \| Building for the love of IB ## About Every year, 1\.5 million Indians bet their careers on one exam\. Most spend years preparing\. Most still fail\. Not because they aren't smart\. Because nobody built them the right tools\. We did\. PrepAiro is a real\-time AI tutor that knows your exam, adapts to how you think, and talks back in real time\. Built with gamification that turns daily prep into a habit across iOS, Android, and the web\. Live on UPSC, GMAT, GRE and IB\. Expanding fast across the globe 200K\+ learners\. The number that matters more is that they keep coming back\. That's not a coincidence\. Exam prep at scale is an infrastructure problem dressed up as an EdTech problem\. AI just made it solvable\. We're solving it\. Before this, I spent 5 years building at the edge of scale\. Prophecy: Founding engineer, built the core metadata brain from zero\. Bloomreach: analytics on billions of user events daily, 500\-node clusters, and building foundational attribution models\. Let's connect at ayush@prepairo\.ai ## Location Greater Bengaluru Area ## Work experience Co\-Founder and CTO at Koncepts, Jan 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Technical co\-founder\. Own the architecture, engineering org, and technical roadmap\. Built PrepAiro from zero to 200K\+ learners across iOS, Android and web\. Real\-time AI voice at scale\. Concurrent sessions, no lag, no degradation\. Visualised live with a sphere that reacts to your voice\. Most EdTech is async\. We are not\. AI that goes deeper than chat\. Streaming AI tutor, OCR that scans handwritten answers and grades them against a rubric, in\-quiz explanations generated on demand\. The AI knows the exam\. Not just the subject\. Gamification that creates real habits\. Streaks, shields, XP, leaderboards, badges\. A full retention engine\. Learners come back because the product earns it\. UX that people actually talk about\. Spotify Wrapped\-style year\-in\-review\. Micro\-animations on every interaction\. A product that feels premium because it is\. When we need to move, we move\. Entire web platform migrated and live in 2 days\. Shipping daily\. Zero downtime tolerance\. Live on UPSC, GMAT, GRE and IB\. Building the org and culture that takes PrepAiro global\. Apache Atlas Contributor at The Apache Software Foundation, Oct 2018 \- Present · 7 yrs 11 mos, Active contributor to Apache Atlas since 2018\. 7\+ years building and maintaining metadata governance infrastructure used by enterprises globally\. Founding Software Engineer at Prophecy, Jun 2021 \- Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Founding Engineer at Prophecy, an Insight Partners\-backed data engineering platform\. Owned the core metadata layer from zero\. Every pipeline, transformation, and data lineage graph The platform runs through what I built\. Joined when it was pre\-product\. The company raised $35M\+ and scaled to enterprise customers\. Infrastructure that holds up when it matters\. Member Of Technical Staff \| Analytics at Bloomreach, Apr 2020 \- Jun 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Analytics infrastructure for Bloomreach's eCommerce intelligence platform\. Clickstream pipeline processing billions of events daily across a 500\-node cluster\. Every user interaction on the Bloomreach\-powered store ran through systems I built\. Attribution logic that determined which searches and pages actually generated revenue for customers\. 100s of real\-time reports\. Smart caching that kept them fast\. Data at a scale most engineers never touch\. software engineer 2 at Intuit, Jul 2018 \- Mar 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built data catalog infrastructure from scratch for one of the world's largest financial platforms\. Deep metadata work at Intuit's scale: automated ingestion pipelines, Avro schema parsing, column\-level real\-time ingestion tracking, and ML feature APIs on top of Apache Atlas\. The problems were hard enough to take home\. This is where the Apache Atlas open\-source work began\. ## Education Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Computer Science, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology [View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/ayush-nigam-2) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/ayush-nigam-2#person", "name": "AYUSH NIGAM", "url": "https://tal.club/meet/ayush-nigam-2", "image": "https://tal.club/meet/ayush-nigam-2/profile-photo.jpg", "description": "Meet AYUSH NIGAM, Co-Founder & CTO @ Koncepts | Building for the love of IB based in Greater Bengaluru Area.", "jobTitle": "Co-Founder and CTO", "worksFor": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Koncepts" }, "hasOccupation": { "@type": "Occupation", "name": "Co-Founder and CTO" }, "homeLocation": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Greater Bengaluru Area" }, "alumniOf": [ { "@type": "EducationalOrganization", "name": "Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology" } ], "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/ayush-nigam-2#webpage" } }, { "@type": "ProfilePage", "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/ayush-nigam-2#webpage", "url": "https://tal.club/meet/ayush-nigam-2", "name": "AYUSH NIGAM on Tal", "description": "Meet AYUSH NIGAM, Co-Founder & CTO @ Koncepts | Building for the love of IB based in Greater Bengaluru Area.", "dateModified": "2026-08-20T16:59:19.739Z", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://tal.club/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/ayush-nigam-2#person" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://tal.club/meet/ayush-nigam-2/profile-photo.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://tal.club/meet/ayush-nigam-2/profile-photo.jpg", "caption": "AYUSH NIGAM profile photo on Tal" }, "inLanguage": "en-IN" } ] } ```