About
Highly accomplished AI Engineering Leader and former Technical CEO with 9+ years of expertise in building and scaling AI-driven systems from concept to global deployment. Proven ability to drive technical innovation, architecting infrastructure that reduced costs by 95% ($360K to $18K annually) while scaling to over 250 million devices. Expert in LLM-based agentic workflows, deep reinforcement learning, and production AI systems, seeking to leverage hands-on technical expertise and strategic leadership in a senior engineering role at a leading AI company.
Work
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Summary
As Co-founder & CEO / CTO, Prateek Gupta led product strategy, business growth, and advanced AI innovation, architecting core AI and data infrastructure to achieve significant revenue milestones and industry recognition for a gamification platform.
Highlights
Led strategic product pivot to CustomerGlu, achieving Tech50 recognition by YourStory in 2021 and securing $1.9M in funding from Better Capital and Techstars.
Architected and re-engineered global infrastructure, reducing monthly costs by 95% (from $30K to $1.5K) while scaling a multi-tenant SaaS platform to serve over 250 million devices across 3 global regions.
Built an autonomous AI agent using Claude SDK, functioning as a 'Data Scientist + PM,' accelerating development velocity by 10x for a single engineer.
Developed MARS (Marax Action Recommendation System), a proprietary deep reinforcement learning model that improved user retention by over 40%.
Designed and implemented a real-time data pipeline (Kafka → Python ETL → Clickhouse) capable of processing over 10,000 events per second with sub-50ms p99 latency for critical predictions.
Grew Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) from $0 to $35K and secured a 3-year partnership with Capillary Technologies.
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Summary
As a Full Stack Developer, Prateek Gupta developed initial AI-driven churn prediction systems and established core microservices architecture for early-stage platform development.
Highlights
Built foundational Marax AI churn prediction system utilizing RNNs and advanced timeseries analysis techniques.
Developed and deployed production-grade models for key clients like Bigbasket and Nestaway, impacting millions of users.
Implemented core microservices architecture using Node.js, Python, and MongoDB, ensuring scalable and maintainable code.
Awards
#2 Product of the Day
Awarded By
Product Hunt (for Glu AI)
Awarded for innovative approach to gamification with Glu AI.
Tech50 Startup 2021
Awarded By
YourStory
Recognized as one of the top 50 promising tech startups in India for driving innovation and impact.
Techstars Bangalore Accelerator Class of 2021
Awarded By
Techstars
Selected for participation in the prestigious Techstars accelerator program, validating business model and growth potential.
Skills
AI/ML
Agentic AI (Claude SDK), LLMs, GPT Integration, Deep Reinforcement Learning, RNNs, Transformers, Churn Prediction, Propensity Modeling, Real-time Inference, TensorFlow, PyTorch.
Infrastructure
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Multi-Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), Auto-scaling, Spot Instances, Cost Optimization, Bare Metal, Hypervisors, Service Mesh.
Data Engineering
Real-time Pipelines, Kafka, Spark, Clickhouse, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, ETL, Data Warehousing.
Development
Python, Node.js, Go, JavaScript, React, C++, Microservices, REST APIs, GraphQL.
Security & Compliance
SOC2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, Zero-Trust Architecture, WAF, SSL/TLS.