About Me

Founder of a VC-acquired AI startup, MBA operator, and engineer — one person accountable across strategy, software, AI, and security.

Building companies & new technology Recognised by Govt. of India Partner @ MeitY Founder — VC-acquired AI startup Intl. Gold Medalist @ IITB AIR 1370 @ IIT JAM — 600K+ participants MBA @ IIM Raipur '27 PGP @ UT Austin MScFE @ WorldQuant '26 Published author — 4 AI books + 2 ISBN simulations ₹90L+ AUM — 2+ yrs beating the index ₹22L revenue lift in 6 weeks MD's office @ ₹2,830Cr solar group 36 OSS repos · 16 published packages OWASP-aligned AI security suite author Led 42B-param LLM build Top 0.4% chess globally 1M+ content views

I've run the company, and I've written the code

For two years I co-founded and ran an AI startup as Director — AI Strategy and Business Operations: built the products, hired and led a cross-country 16-member team, served 200K+ users across edtech, retail, and economy, earned Government-of-India (DPIIT) recognition, and took the company to a VC acquisition of its AI systems and infrastructure IP.

The technical depth behind that P&L is real, not delegated: billion-parameter AI systems and industry-grade simulation engines built end to end, a quantitative trading stack — probabilistic NIFTY derivatives models validated with Brier score and MSE — scaled at 124% CAGR to ₹440+ crore in total volume, two published books, and a paper on realizing a fully functional CPU with multi-layer perceptrons. I also maintain open-source projects — security tooling in Rust and Python, a quantum-finance framework, and a plotting library.

In summer 2026 I worked in the MD's office of a ₹2,830-crore solar EPC group, where I built and owned a multi-park O&M platform — 14 parks, 100+ plants, 48.4 MWp — that saved 450+ engineering hours a year and scaled automated client reporting from 3 to 54 clients, shipped a design engine that compressed solar plant design cycles from 3–5 days to under an hour, and modelled a ₹423-crore EV-charging venture — closing the eight weeks with 11 ROI-ranked board decisions.

Today I'm deepening the toolkit with an MBA at IIM Raipur, a Postgraduate Program in AI & Machine Learning at The University of Texas at Austin (McCombs), and an MSc in Financial Engineering at WorldQuant University — while consulting independently across software and web development, AI & automation, cybersecurity, and technology & quant strategy.

When you work with me, the person who understood your problem is the same person who designs, builds, and secures the solution — one consultant, end to end, with no hand-offs and no sales pitch.

Adarsh Keshri — independent technology consultant

Startup Recognized

By Ministry of Commerce & Industry

Education

Education

Management, data science, financial engineering, and physics — the formal foundation behind the consulting work.

MBA — IIM Raipur

2025–2027. Master of Business Administration at the Indian Institute of Management Raipur.

Postgraduate Program in AI & Machine Learning — The University of Texas at Austin

2025–2026. Postgraduate Program in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin.

MSc Financial Engineering — WorldQuant University

2025–2026. Master of Science in Financial Engineering, underpinning the quantitative finance practice.

B.Sc. (Hons) Physics — St. Xavier's College Ranchi

2019–2022. Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics.

Certifications

Certifications

Credentials spanning generative AI engineering, management practice, process excellence, and core software engineering.

IBM Generative AI Engineering Specialization

16-course specialization — LLMs, transformers, and RAG applications built with GPT, BERT, PyTorch, Hugging Face, and LangChain.

McKinsey Forward

McKinsey's program in structured problem-solving and professional effectiveness.

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt — Grant Thornton

DMAIC, Minitab, Power BI, and Lean tools for data-driven process and quality improvement.

Full Stack Development

MERN-stack development (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) with a Certificate of Excellence from Coding Ninjas.

Data Structures and Algorithms

Certification in the fundamentals behind efficient, reliable software — top #4,300 global rank on LeetCode.

Applied & Core Finance

JPMorgan Chase research job simulation plus coursework from UPenn, Columbia, Yale, and Bocconi — DCF valuation, Black-Scholes and binomial derivatives pricing, credit risk, and PE/VC deal structuring.

Operator Projects

Business Judgment, Practiced

Private equity and consumer strategy work from the MBA — the boardroom half of the toolkit, held to the same standard as the code.

Virasat Capital — Succession PE Thesis

Independent private-equity project on India's succession economy: 9 proprietary frameworks, a fully modelled ₹162Cr founder-succession buyout (8.0x adjusted EBITDA, scenarios spanning 1.38x–3.16x MOIC), and a ₹1,000Cr six-platform fund design — codified into a 20-chapter, 200k-word operating playbook.

Retail Consumer-Behaviour Research

Led a 6-member field study for a national value-fashion retailer — 68 exit surveys, 5 store visits, 7 constructs. Isolated store ambience as the top impulse-buying driver (r = 0.49, p < 0.001), diagnosed the primary experience gap, and shipped 4 initiatives from digital queues to Tier-3/4 expansion.

Recognition

Recognition & Awards

Government recognition for the startup work and academic distinction across national competitive exams and honors.

Ministry of Commerce & Industry Recognition

The AI startup I co-founded was recognized by India's Ministry of Commerce & Industry.

MeitY AI/ML Empanelment

Directed the strategic response to the MeitY (Ministry of Electronics & IT) AI/ML Empanelment tender, working with the National e-Governance Division (Digital India).

International Gold Medal of Distinction

Awarded the International Gold Medal of Distinction (honors).

AIR-1 & 99.9 Percentile

All India Rank 1 with a perfect 60/60 score and 99.9 percentile in an international Olympiad organized by IIT Bombay & SOF.

AIR 1370 — IIT JAM 2022

All India Rank 1370 among 600,000+ participants, with a seat allotment from NIT Warangal for the M.Sc. (Tech) program.

Top 0.4% Chess Rating

1950+ Elo on Chess.com within 21 games — top 0.4% of players globally.

Why Us

Why Work With Me

Based in India and working worldwide, on a project or retainer basis — and I reply to every serious inquiry within 24 hours.

One person, fully accountable

No hand-offs, no rotating cast of developers, no vendor commissions. The consultant who scopes your project is the one who designs, builds, secures, and hands it over — with everything documented so you own it outright.

Working with clients

End-to-End Ownership

The person who understood your problem is the same person who designs, builds, and secures the solution — no hand-offs, no lost context, no surprises.

Security Built In

Every build gets a security review before launch: auth flows, access control, dependency risk, and cloud configuration — problems caught before attackers find them.

AI That Pays For Itself

Automation aimed at your actual bottlenecks — document processing, support triage, data pipelines — measured by staff-hours saved, not by hype.

Honest Strategy

An independent second opinion on stack selection, architecture, and build-vs-buy decisions — advice with no vendor commissions or sales pitch behind it.

Ready to elevate your business?

Tell me what you're trying to build, automate, or secure. The first consultation is free, there's no obligation, and I reply within 24 hours.