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Prasad Kavuri

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Head of AI Engineering at Krutrim
📍 Greater Chicago Area, United States

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.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Head of AI Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Chicago Area, United States
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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.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Head of AI Engineering
Krutrim
9-2023 - 2-2025
Senior Director of Engineering
Ola
5-2023 - 9-2023
Head of Infrastructure and Services
HERE Technologies
7-2021 - 6-2023
Director Of Engineering - Highly Automated Driving(HAD)
HERE Technologies
1-2017 - 6-2021
Sr Engineering Manager
HERE Technologies
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Education
2012 - 2014
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Northern Illinois University
1999 - 2002
Master
Osmania University
1996 - 1999
Bachelor's degree
Osmania University
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