Kunal Sawarkar
Co-Founder Chief AI Officer at Stealth AI Startup
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolKunal Sawarkar is a seasoned AI leader and entrepreneur with nine years of focused experience building enterprise-grade AI platforms and products. As Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer at a stealth AI startup, he’s tackling the hard problem of making untapped real-world data learnable and actionable at enterprise scale (100M+). Previously a Distinguished Engineer and Chief AI Scientist at IBM, he led agentic AI initiatives, founded AI Build Labs, and shipped reusable NLP/speech libraries and production systems that processed millions of low-latency decisions. He combines deep technical execution—patents, benchmark-setting papers, and products like SuperKnowa and Querycraft—with strategic investor and board roles across AI, deeptech, and BCI startups. Based in the NYC area and Harvard-educated in applied statistics, he pairs product-led growth instincts with research rigor to turn novel AI ideas into repeatable enterprise value. Avid problem-solver beyond code, he brings the same creative tenacity to machine learning and rock climbing.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur UniversityMaster's degree IMS with major coursework in Applied Statistics, Master's degree IMS with major coursework in Applied Statistics at Harvard University
Github Skills (42)
pytorch-lightning10
data-science9
artificial-intelligence9
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
watson9
ai9
eval9
deep-learning9
callback8
supervised-learning8
pretrain8
representation-learning8
image-processing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ibm-self-serve-assets/JudgeIt-LLM-as-a-Judge
Oct 2024 - Oct 2025
Automation Framework using LLM-as-a-judge to evaluate of Agentic AI, RAG, Text2SQL at scale; that is a good proxy for human judgement.
Contributions:3 PRs, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
agentic-aiautomation-frameworkllmproxyeval
PacktPublishing/Deep-Learning-with-PyTorch-Lightning
Jan 2021 - May 2022
Getting Started with PyTorch Lightning, Published by Packt
Contributions:61 commits, 62 pushes, 23 comments in 1 year 4 months
pytorch-lightning
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