Ashutosh Garg

Entrepreneur, Career Coach, Machine Learning Expert

Ashutosh is CEO & Co-Founder of Viven, building Digital Twins for the enterprise — intelligent counterparts that preserve knowledge, accelerate decisions, and scale human potential. Since 2016 he has also led Eightfold.ai as CEO & Co-Founder, the industry's first Talent Intelligence Platform. He earlier co-founded BloomReach, where he served as CTO from 2009 to 2016. Before founding companies, he was a Staff Research Scientist at Google and held research roles at IBM Almaden and IBM TJ Watson. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (AI/Machine Learning) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi. He also serves on the board of Bidgely and the Plaksha Technology Leaders advisory board.

Anurag Nilesh

Engineering Leader

His focus areas include AI systems, distributed systems, data integrations, and team scaling.

Shamant Raghav

Software Engineer

In his public profile summary, he is presented through these focus areas without additional role or credential details.

Shreyas Rana

Software Engineer for Engineering and AI Platforms

I'm a Software Engineer and a UC Berkeley alum. My professional interests include engineering and AI platforms. I also spend time on college-related topics. In addition, my profile includes materials associated with interview preparation and related project materials.

Niran Kundapur

Product

Niran has built 0-1 products, scaled products, and led GTM pilots for mid-market to enterprise customers across verticals, as a senior product leader at B2B2C startups in Seed / Series A through Series E. Niran's personal motto is "Mind, Muscle, and Manners". He writes about building products and has explored AI-assisted development workflows in his "Vibe Coding, Viable Coding" essay. He shares his learnings, templates, and frameworks at https://niran-kundapur.com/ and via his digital twin at https://www.asksila.com/niran-kundapur .

Eightfold Cultivate 2026

Your Cultivate 2026 Event Guide

It covers the event agenda, speakers, venue, and networking, and directs attendees to the events team for additional support.

Anu Mangal

Marketing

Ex-Amazon PMM with expertise in GTM, lifecycle marketing, experimentation, and product positioning at scale.

Maanas Sharma

AI/ML Engineer

Ask my twin about anything from the best food on MIT's campus, to how I navigate between humanities & STEM, to the latest in applied AI research! I review every question I get to make sure it incorporates my actual personal takes as much as possible.

Dhananjay Raman

Academic Coach

He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay and previously served as a Department Academic Mentor and led Maths and Physics initiatives through the Institute Technical Council. His coaching draws on his own experience with Olympiads, JEE, and the IIT CS curriculum. Academic Achievements: - AIR 2 in JEE Advanced [2021] - Gold Medal in International Chemistry Olympiad [2021] - World Topper in International Astronomy Olympiad [2019] - Gold Medal in International Junior Science Olympiad [2018]

Kusum Chaoudhary

University of Maryland - Campus Expert

At Viven, Kusum builds privacy and trust features across the Digital Twin platform - including the Privacy Rule Management System with LLM-generated summaries, a Personas feature for team-level privacy controls, multi-recipient Scheduled Queries, and an evaluation framework for Digital Twin agents using Recall and MRR metrics. She joined as a Software Engineer Intern in summer 2025, where she designed a runtime Filter Query system for privacy enforcement and automated email-based access workflows in React, Flask, and TypeScript. On campus she works as an Undergraduate Research Assistant on Protein Fold Classification (refining ML reconstruction modules) and earlier on a research project parsing TeX from 100,000+ papers to build a structured equation dataset. She has also been a Teaching Assistant for Object-Oriented Programming I in Java at UMD, supporting 150+ students. She graduates in May 2026.