Prasad Kavuri

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Head of AI Engineering at Krutrim

Greater Chicago Area, United States

Overview

Prasad Kavuri is the Head of AI Engineering at Krutrim, spearheading the development of Indias first Agentic AI platform. With over 20 years of experience at firms like Ola and HERE Technologies, he has deep expertise in LLM orchestration, AI platforms, and cost-efficient infrastructure. Colleagues praise him as a strategic, customer-focused, and innovative leader.

He earned an MBA from Northern Illinois University and is certified in Agentic AI.

He led a cloud-native transformation at Ola that reduced infrastructure costs by 70% while scaling the B2B API platform to over 13, 000 customers.

Personality Overview

Thorough Evaluator

Rigorous & Demanding

Precise But Practical

They respond well to strong and respectful communication.  More than the product, they care about the impact of the product. They are not always relationship oriented.

Topics They Care About

Agentic AI Platforms
Leads architecture and strategy for India’s first Agentic AI platform at Krutrim, focusing on LLM orchestration, RAG, and achieving significant cost and latency reductions.
Cost-Efficient AI
Demonstrated a strong track record of reducing AI infrastructure costs, achieving a 70% reduction at Ola and 40% savings at Krutrim through strategic optimizations.
AI in Mobility
Previously led AI-driven platform transformations for Ola Maps and directed engineering for autonomous driving and computer-vision platforms at HERE Technologies.

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Work History

3-2025
Head of AI Engineering at Krutrim
9-2023 - 2-2025
Senior Director of Engineering at Ola
5-2023 - 9-2023
Head of Infrastructure and Services at HERE Technologies
7-2021 - 6-2023
Director Of Engineering - Highly Automated Driving(HAD) at HERE Technologies
1-2017 - 6-2021
Sr Engineering Manager at HERE Technologies

Education

2012 - 2014
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Northern Illinois University
1999 - 2002
Master from Osmania University
1996 - 1999
Bachelor's degree from Osmania University
1982 - 1994
SSC from St Alphonsas High School

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During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Make sure that you circle back fast on any action items, it wins their trust
  • Use phrases like ‘it’s your decision’, ‘strategic impact’ etc.
  • When negotiating terms, help them build an impression that they are the ones calling the shots

DONT's

  • Don’t be in a rush to invite them for a social meet and greet
  • Do not spend too much time focusing on product tech or features
  • Don’t take too much time in sending them information if they ask for any

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Prasad is

  • Confidence in impact is paramount to them, followed by a sense of achievement and ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Prasad

  • If they are not convinced, they will have no hesitation in telling you the same.

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    How fast (or slow) will Prasad move?

  • They can reach decisions fairly quickly if they are convinced.
  • Can Prasad take some risk or not?

  • They don’t mind risks but can be quite binary about them.

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