
Prasad Kavuri
VP / Head of AI Engineering | Agentic AI Platforms · AI FinOps · AI Governance | 200+ Engineers | Chicago
Enterprise AI, Built for Day 2
Production AI platform reference architecture for VP / Head-level evaluation.
Agentic AILLM PlatformsApplied AI StrategyGlobal Engineering Leadership
AI platform executive who turns GenAI programs into governed, cost-efficient production systems.
200+Engineers Led
across Krutrim, Ola & HERE
70%Cost Reduction Delivered
Up to · AI inference at scale
13K+B2B Customers Enabled
$10M+Revenue Launched
Krutrim AI, 0→production
20 years building AI platforms — from Krutrim's agentic AI ($10M+ revenue impact) to Ola Maps at 13,000+ B2B customers with 70% cost reduction. I take AI from demo to production with governance, cost discipline, and measurable outcomes.
Full background →
After 18 years at HERE Technologies — building the AI/ML infrastructure that powers autonomous driving for major global OEMs — I made a deliberate choice to go build at the frontier of what I believe is enterprise technology's most consequential shift: agentic AI at national scale. That conviction took me to India's fastest-moving AI ecosystem, where I built Krutrim's agentic AI platform (Kruti.ai) from the ground up and led the engineering transformation that scaled Ola Maps to 13,000+ enterprise customers with a 70% infrastructure cost reduction. What I care about is simple: turning AI from something that looks impressive in a demo into something that actually delivers business value at scale. A big part of my work sits in the gap most companies struggle with — moving from experimentation to production. That means designing multi-agent workflows that go beyond chat, driving 40-70% cost reductions through smarter model strategies, and building the governance layer that lets enterprises actually trust what they're deploying. I've led global engineering organizations of 200+ across North America, Europe, and APAC, with budgets ranging from $8M to $20M annually, creating environments where teams move fast and stay aligned to business outcomes. I'm based in the Chicago area and open to VP / Head of AI Engineering and Chief AI Officer conversations globally.
Core Capabilities & Search Fit
AI Engineering LeadershipSystem DesignAgentic OrchestrationLLMOpsAI FinOpsChicagoAPAC AI LeadershipKrutrimOlaGlobal AI Platform LeaderVP of AI EngineeringHead of AI EngineeringSenior Director AI Platform
Most AI programs fail in production because governance, orchestration, reliability, and cost ownership are bolted on too late.
I build production AI systems — not prototypes.
I optimize for cost, latency, and scalability — not just model quality.
I align engineering, product, and business teams around measurable outcomes.
I design AI systems with measurable quality loops and human oversight and governance.
Signature System: AI Evaluation Showcase
Offline eval suites, live drift monitoring, hallucination indicators, and regression-minded quality gating are built into this platform.
Why this matters: quality regressions are surfaced before release, so AI reliability is managed as an engineering system.
Explore Signature SystemAvailable Now · Actively Evaluating Opportunities
On-device Small Language ModelsAgent-to-Agent (A2A) ProtocolDemonstrated in the Multi-Agent System demo — Researcher → Strategist coordination with HITL checkpoint LLM Observability and TracingMultimodal Agentic Workflows