Ashish Kumar | Profound

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Ashish's stories span enterprise RAG systems, real-time LLM automation, and product-led sales tooling.

Ashish Kumar

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Senior AI Engineers at Scale

Building AI systems at Series B or later companies.

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Founders Building AI Products

Shipping AI-centered solutions to real business problems.

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Operations Leaders Automating Workflows

Replacing manual ops processes with AI-driven systems.

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AI-Native Product Managers

Defining product strategy for AI-first companies.

Ashish Kumar

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Building Enterprise AI Pipelines

Ashish designs and ships end-to-end AI systems for enterprise clients, owning decisions from architecture selection through cloud deployment. He has done this across RAG knowledge bases, multimodal document processing, and real-time message classification pipelines, working with clients in consulting, supply chain, and financial services. His approach starts with explicit trade-off analysis: evaluating database options, model choices, and deployment platforms before writing production code. That discipline shows up in the Dalberg RAG system, where he identified vision-language models as the right tool for PPT and image extraction, and in the WhatsApp automation, where he redesigned the infrastructure with AWS Lambda to handle order-of-magnitude scaling. The result is systems that hold at scale and produce outcomes clients can measure.

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Business Lever Identification

Ashish approaches technical problems by first finding the smallest measurable input that actually drives the business outcome, then building toward that lever. At Unacademy, he traced the revenue problem through multiple layers of the sales funnel until he landed on talk time per BD as the controllable input metric, then designed the auto-dialer specifically to move that number. At Tailored AI, he frames client engagements around the business problem first, using that framing to make architecture decisions. This instinct comes partly from his time as a product manager and partly from his operations background, both of which trained him to read systems before touching them. For engineering teams that need someone who can translate a business problem into a technical brief without losing fidelity in either direction, that combination is the practical value.

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Cross-Functional Product Engineering

Ashish has worked as a software engineer, a product manager, and an operations manager, and he carries all three frames into every role he holds. At Unacademy, he was a PM who ran stakeholder interviews at every level of the sales org, mapped the metric hierarchy, and designed a feature with a clear input-output logic. At Tailored AI, he is an engineer who scopes client problems, evaluates trade-offs, and owns the full build from architecture to deployment. That range means he can hold the technical and business sides of a problem simultaneously, without needing a handoff between functions to translate between them. For early-stage or lean AI teams where engineers are expected to understand the product context, that combination reduces coordination overhead and speeds up the path from problem to shipped solution.

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Ashish Kumar

Career Stories

Dalberg RAG: Building a Knowledge Base with 95% Recall

At Tailored AI as Software Engineer

2025

WhatsApp Automation: Scaling Demand Capture for a Supply Chain Client

At Tailored AI as Software Engineer

2025

Recognizing Automation's Reach and Pivoting to Build It

At Teachmint as Manager - Strategy and Operations

2025 - 2025

Unacademy CRM: Shipping an Auto-Dialer for the Inside Sales Team

At Unacademy as Associate Product Manager

2021 - 2022

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