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title: "Kunal Kakade - Assistant Manager (AI & GPU Presales) in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Kunal Kakade, National Finalist @ AB InBev | Campus Winner @ Bajaj Atom CEO Challenge | Campus Runner-up @ ITC Interrobang and MI Summit 5.0 (PPI) | Semi Finalist @ Kotak Life | IIM Indore PGP’24 | IISER Mohali ’19 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex. Explore p..."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/kunal-kakade-1/share-image"
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# Kunal Kakade on Tal

## Headline

National Finalist @ AB InBev \| Campus Winner @ Bajaj Atom CEO Challenge \| Campus Runner\-up @ ITC Interrobang and MI Summit 5\.0 \(PPI\) \| Semi Finalist @ Kotak Life \| IIM Indore PGP’24 \| IISER Mohali ’19

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

hugging face

ollama

## Work experience

Assistant Manager \(AI & GPU Presales\) at CtrlS Datacenters, May 2025 \- Present · 1 y 3 mo, Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Management Trainee, GTM AioT & Wearables at Xiaomi India, Jun 2024 \- May 2025 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Academic Associate at Indian School of Business, Jan 2020 \- May 2022 · 2 y 4 mo, Mohali

## Education

PGP' 24, Business Administration and Management, General, Indian Institute of Management, Indore

BS\-MS dual degree, Mathematics, IISER Mohali

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/kkakade6

[View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/kunal-kakade-1)

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