Aakash Bhatnagar

Pioneer
DISC Type : dsi

Founding Engineer at Stealth Startup

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Overview

Aakash is a product-oriented Founding Engineer at a stealth startup, specializing in building SaaS products powered by LLMs. With a Masters from Boston University and experience at JPMorgan Chase, he excels in LLM finetuning, MLOps, and backend development to deliver impactful AI solutions.

Outside of his direct engineering role, Aakash is passionate about the intersection of AI and product management. He actively writes about evolving software development processes and engages with the Boston tech community by sharing relevant local events for AI professionals.

He contributed to Alzheimers research by implementing a graph neural network to analyze 3D brain atlases for early indicators of the disease.

Personality Overview

Decisive But Friendly

Friendly But Fast

Dynamic But Sincere

They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed  They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders) If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product

Topics They Care About

LLM Finetuning
Has hands-on experience leading the full parameter fine-tuning of large models like LLAMA-3. 1 and experimenting with techniques such as LORA on Flan-T5.
AI Product Management
Writes and shares content about how AI is reshaping the role of PMs, improving development processes, and creating new strategies for building successful products.
AI for Health
Conducted research at Boston University using GNNs for early Alzheimer's detection and co-authored a paper on classifying COVID-19 biomedical literature.

Media Appearances

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Work History

9-2025 - 9-2025
Founding Engineer at Stealth Startup
2-2025 - 9-2025
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Extuitive
2-2024 - 2-2025
Machine Learning Engineer (founding member) at Extuitive
6-2023 - 8-2023
AI Associate (NLP Recommendation System) at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
9-2022 - 12-2022
Research Assistant at Kolachalama Lab at Boston University

Education

9-2022 - 12-2023
Master of Science - MS from Boston University
2018 - 2022
Bachelor of Technology - BTech from Navrachana University

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Exp : 2 Location : Boston, Massachusetts, United States Job Level : N/A Designation : Founding Engineer at Stealth Startup
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Insights For Selling To Aakash

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Mostly stick to your standard pitch and qualifying script, but add some stories or anecdotes to it
  • Keep your pitch focused on the impact but nurture the relationship too
  • During followups, use calls or text if needed, they should be fine

DONT's

  • Don't lean very heavily into providing too much information, sharing whitepapers etc.
  • Don’t be very informal during the early interactions even if they are being so themselves
  • Don’t hesitate from asking questions or pushing them, but take a formal approach

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Aakash is

  • Nothing less than a strong combination of proof of results, relationship and high levels of professionalism is effective with them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Aakash

  • They can say no while staying friendly, but can also be pursuaded to reconsider

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Aakash move?

  • They are generally fast movers and can take quick decisions
  • Can Aakash take some risk or not?

  • They have high risk-appetite but can get ahead of themselves once in a while. Observe carefully

You And Aakash

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