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Hitesh Shivkumar

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Co-Founder at BlankSage
📍 Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Hitesh is the Co-Founder of BlankSage and a final-year Computer Science undergraduate at VIT Vellore. He has a strong background in AI and software engineering, with high-impact internships at PayPal, where he designed multi-agent architectures for SRE, and at Jio, where he optimized speech-to-text models. People who have worked with him describe him as "exceptionally talented" and "one of the best interns".

Beyond his entrepreneurial and corporate work, Hitesh has a deep interest in the academic applications of AI. He has co-authored publications on diverse topics, including the use of AI to enhance E-Sports spectating and theoretical modifications to Conways Game of Life to simulate population dynamics, showcasing a unique blend of practical and research-oriented passions.

Unique fact: Hitesh trained a 135M-parameter Large Language Model for medical dialogue and integrated it into a multimodal pipeline for edge deployment.

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Experience
1 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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AI for Education
As Co-founder of BlankSage, he is focused on building tools for educators, stating they are "removing what gets in the way" of teaching.
Agentic AI Systems
Designed and deployed multi-agent architectures and NLP-to-SQL agentic workflows during his software engineering internship at PayPal.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Co-Founder
BlankSage
11-2025
Chief Technology Officer
AgnetLabs
9-2025 - 10-2025
Software Engineer Intern
Featurely AI
6-2025 - 8-2025
Software Engineer Intern
PayPal
9-2024 - 2-2025
Machine Learning Engineer
MedAI Technologies
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Education
9-2022 - 8-2026
Bachelor of Technology - BTech
Vellore Institute of Technology
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