AI strategy from someone who has built it, at scale.
I advise founders, CEOs and boards on where AI creates real value, then help their teams build it. Twelve years of engineering leadership, from a Y Combinator startup I co-founded to platforms serving millions.
Where I've built
- Writesonic
- Y Combinator
Built for millions, before advising anyone.
The advice I give comes from systems I have shipped and teams I have led, not from slides.
- 2026 – now
Stealth AI startup / Co-founder
Building an autonomous AI engine.
- 2025 – 2026
GeoIQ / VP, AI Engineering
Built the AI engineering team from scratch and shipped agentic systems handling 10,000 sessions a day in production, while cutting agent cost by 75%. Presented the work at the Ai4 conference.
- 2025
Isha Foundation / Engineering Leader
Led engineering on the Miracle of Mind project.
- 2024
Pruoo Healthcare (iMumz) / Head of Engineering
Rebuilt the engineering team behind a million-user parenting platform and cut app launch time by 80%.
- 2023
Writesonic / Engineering Manager
Took response times from 1.5s to 400ms for 3M+ paying users, halved infrastructure cost and tripled the team.
- 2017 – 2023
Khabri, Y Combinator S19 / Co-founder & CTO
Built a vernacular audio platform to 5M+ users with 14ms response times. Raised $3.2M.
“Aankit’s technical architecture decisions at Writesonic helped us scale from handling thousands to millions of AI requests daily. His optimization work reduced our infrastructure costs by 73% while improving performance dramatically.”
“We scaled to 6 million users and achieved $1.2 million ARR over 6+ years… He consistently delivered tech solutions that exceeded industry benchmarks, even under the typical constraints of an early-stage startup.”
Co-founder of Khabri, YC alum
“His tech skills are unparalleled, and he is an innovative thinker. His binary approach to decision-making is spot-on.”
Co-founder & CEO, Khabri
“His leadership style is characterised by a unique ability to motivate and keep the enthusiasm of the entire team high.”
Google Cloud Consultant, Searce
What the press saw early
Khabri “could fill a sizable void in the country where a dedicated heavyweight has failed to emerge.”
October 2020Regional podcasts find their voice
On Khabri’s 350% month-on-month growth through the 2020 lockdown, and the creator economy behind it.
Read on Forbes India
ETCIO video interviewYour tech mantra for success
A conversation on the role of a technology leader and scaling a platform to millions of listeners.
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