Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder

CTO & Co-founderVidyasage Labs | Bengaluru | Full-timeBuild the technology behind a new category of learning.Vidyasage Labs is building AI-powered professional judgment and skills training.Velvuri — IT & Businesshttps://velvuri.com/Kelvuri — Healthcare / Nursinghttps://kelvuri.com/The thesis is simple:AI is making execution cheaper. Professional judgment is becoming more valuable.Most training teaches people what to know. Vidyasage is building a way for people to practise how to decide when information is incomplete, priorities conflict and every choice has trade-offs and consequences.The MVP is functional, the products are live, the core AI engine is in production, and there is early traction and interest from colleges.I am now looking for a CTO & Co-founder to build the technology and company with me.The roleThis is not a Head of Engineering role.As CTO & Co-founder, you will own technology end-to-end and work directly with me across:Product · AI/ML · Full-stack · Cloud · MLOps · Architecture · Security · ScaleAt this stage, you will be highly hands-on.You will design systems, write code, deploy, debug production issues, make architecture decisions and decide what should be built next.As the company grows, you will build and lead the engineering organization.What you will buildThe next version of Vidyasage needs to become:AI-nativereliable in productionscalable to millions of learnersmulti-product and multi-tenantadaptable across professional domainsready for direct, partner, embedded and white-label distributionYou will have the freedom to challenge the current architecture and rebuild where necessary.Technology depthStrong hands-on capability across most of:LLM applications and AI/ML systemsAI evaluation and reliabilityRAG, agents and knowledge systemsMLOps and data pipelinesbackend, APIs and databasesfrontend / full-stack developmentcloud infrastructure and DevOpsCI/CD, observability and securityperformance, scalability and costYou do not need to match every technology above.The ability to learn, reason and build matters more than a checklist.Who I’m looking forRoughly 10–15+ years of strong engineering experience, or equivalent depth through exceptional product/startup work.You have built production systems from zero, can go from architecture to code to production, and are comfortable owning technical decisions without waiting for a large team.You are:deeply hands-onproduct-mindedstrong in AI and cloudcomfortable across the full stackable to think from first principlesfast without being carelesscomfortable with ambiguityhigh ownershipcommercially awarewilling to learn whatever the problem requiresPrior CTO experience is not required.A great founding engineer, principal engineer, architect or technical leader may be a better fit than someone with a CTO title but limited building experience.What matters mostToday, I am the sole founder and employee.The technical organization will initially be the founder + CTO.There will be no large engineering team, mature processes or layers of management to hide behind.I’m looking for someone who is comfortable saying:“Here is what I think should be built. Here is why. I’ll build the first version.”The ambition is to build a globally relevant, unicorn-scale company, and to move with the intensity required to test that ambition quickly.BengaluruThis is a Bengaluru-based role.There is no formal office today. For now, the founders will work closely together and meet in person several times a week.This is not a remote-only role.Before you applyPlease spend time with:Vidyasage Labshttps://vidyasage.com/Velvurihttps://velvuri.com/Kelvurihttps://kelvuri.com/Then send me a short document or presentation at:krishna@velvuri.comCover:Vision — What would you build over the next 12–18 months?Product roadmap — What would you prioritise, and what would you deliberately not build?Architecture — How would you design the product, AI systems, data layer and infrastructure for scale?Execution — What would you build in 0–3, 3–6 and 6–12 months?Team — Who would you hire first and why?Scale — How would you take the current products from MVP to millions of learners and multiple professional domains?Challenge — What would you change or challenge in what exists today?There is no model answer.I want to understand how you think, what you see, what you would change and how strongly you want to build this.Why this roleYou will join while the biggest technology and product decisions are still open.You will help shape:the product → the architecture → the AI systems → the engineering culture → the team → the company.This is an opportunity to build from zero to one, then help take it much further.Founder-level equity and compensation will be discussed directly.ApplySend:LinkedIn / CV + your response to the exerciseto:krishna@velvuri.comSubject:CTO & Co-founder — Vidyasage Labs