About Us
Empowering AI with Pristine, Human-Curated Data

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Our Mission
Our mission is to empower companies with the highest-quality, human-verified datasets, becoming the trusted partner for superior AI model training.
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From Frustration to Foundation:
The Deccan AI Story
The
Frustration
Frustration
This isn't working.
Across the AI industry, teams kept running into the same wall:
- Inconsistent, error-prone annotations
- Endless spot-checks and rework
- Vendors who overpromised and underdelivered
Quality wasn't just missing it was an afterthought.
The
Consequence
Consequence
Poor data breaks everything.
In critical pipelines like RLHF and SFT, bad labels didn’t just slow teams down:
- It broke trust in outputs
- It drained engineering bandwidth
- It made teams wonder: "Should we just do this ourselves?"
The
Turning Point
Turning Point
There has to be a better way.
We realized the fix wasn’t more oversight.It was a total rethinking of how quality should be built into the DNA of data pipelines.
Our Team
Our leadership team brings deep industry expertise and a shared vision to advance responsible AI. Together, they guide Deccan AI in delivering pristine, human-curated data with quality and trust at its core.
Our leadership team brings deep industry expertise and a shared vision to advance responsible AI

Founder
15+ years across Citi, Monitor, JPM. IIT Bombay and IIMA

Revenue
20+ years B2B sales (AWS, Intuit). Kellogg MBA

Strategy
15+ years across Google, McKinsey, Amex. IIT Madras & IIMA
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Our Team
Our leadership team brings deep industry expertise and a shared vision to advance responsible AI.
Together, they guide Deccan AI in delivering pristine, human-curated data with quality and trust at its core.
Together, they guide Deccan AI in delivering pristine, human-curated data with quality and trust at its core.

Rukesh Reddy
Founder
IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad

Navaneeth Bodla
AI & Research
Ex Adobe, Cruise, PhD from UMD, BITS Pilani

Shivangi Yadav
Evals
Ex Meta, PhD from Michigan State, IIIT Delhi

Ankit Khedia
Multimodal
Ex Meta, Google, IIT Kharagpur, Georgia Tech

Samir Janveja
GTM
Ex Google, UCB Haas, Michigan Ross

Vishal Kumar
Solutions
Ex Amazon, Scale AI, Arizona State

Jagdeep Sahni
New Accounts
Ex Intuit, AWS, Northwestern University

Narendar Sriram
Robotics
Ex OSARO, CMU Robotics Institute

Rukesh Reddy
Founder
IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad

Navaneeth Bodla
AI & Research
Ex Adobe, Cruise, PhD from UMD, BITS Pilani

Shivangi Yadav
Evals
Ex Meta, PhD from Michigan State, IIIT Delhi

Ankit Khedia
Multimodal
Ex Meta, Google, IIT Kharagpur, Georgia Tech

Samir Janveja
GTM
Ex Google, UCB Haas, Michigan Ross

Vishal Kumar
Solutions
Ex Amazon, Scale AI, Arizona State

Jagdeep Sahni
New Accounts
Ex Intuit, AWS, Northwestern University

Narendar Sriram
Robotics
Ex OSARO, CMU Robotics Institute

Rukesh Reddy
Founder
IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad

Navaneeth Bodla
AI & Research
Ex Adobe, Cruise, PhD from UMD, BITS Pilani

Shivangi Yadav
Evals
Ex Meta, PhD from Michigan State, IIIT Delhi

Ankit Khedia
Multimodal
Ex Meta, Google, IIT Kharagpur, Georgia Tech

Samir Janveja
GTM
Ex Google, UCB Haas, Michigan Ross

Vishal Kumar
Solutions
Ex Amazon, Scale AI, Arizona State

Jagdeep Sahni
New Accounts
Ex Intuit, AWS, Northwestern University

Narendar Sriram
Robotics
Ex OSARO, CMU Robotics Institute

Rukesh Reddy
Founder
IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad

Navaneeth Bodla
AI & Research
Ex Adobe, Cruise, PhD from UMD, BITS Pilani

Shivangi Yadav
Evals
Ex Meta, PhD from Michigan State, IIIT Delhi

Ankit Khedia
Multimodal
Ex Meta, Google, IIT Kharagpur, Georgia Tech

Samir Janveja
GTM
Ex Google, UCB Haas, Michigan Ross

Vishal Kumar
Solutions
Ex Amazon, Scale AI, Arizona State

Jagdeep Sahni
New Accounts
Ex Intuit, AWS, Northwestern University

Narendar Sriram
Robotics
Ex OSARO, CMU Robotics Institute

Rukesh Reddy
Founder
IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad

Navaneeth Bodla
AI & Research
Ex Adobe, Cruise, PhD from UMD, BITS Pilani

Shivangi Yadav
Evals
Ex Meta, PhD from Michigan State, IIIT Delhi

Ankit Khedia
Multimodal
Ex Meta, Google, IIT Kharagpur, Georgia Tech

Samir Janveja
GTM
Ex Google, UCB Haas, Michigan Ross

Vishal Kumar
Solutions
Ex Amazon, Scale AI, Arizona State

Jagdeep Sahni
New Accounts
Ex Intuit, AWS, Northwestern University

Narendar Sriram
Robotics
Ex OSARO, CMU Robotics Institute

Rukesh Reddy
Founder
IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad

Navaneeth Bodla
AI & Research
Ex Adobe, Cruise, PhD from UMD, BITS Pilani

Shivangi Yadav
Evals
Ex Meta, PhD from Michigan State, IIIT Delhi

Ankit Khedia
Multimodal
Ex Meta, Google, IIT Kharagpur, Georgia Tech

Samir Janveja
GTM
Ex Google, UCB Haas, Michigan Ross

Vishal Kumar
Solutions
Ex Amazon, Scale AI, Arizona State

Jagdeep Sahni
New Accounts
Ex Intuit, AWS, Northwestern University

Narendar Sriram
Robotics
Ex OSARO, CMU Robotics Institute

Rukesh Reddy
Founder
IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad

Navaneeth Bodla
AI & Research
Ex Adobe, Cruise, PhD from UMD, BITS Pilani

Shivangi Yadav
Evals
Ex Meta, PhD from Michigan State, IIIT Delhi

Ankit Khedia
Multimodal
Ex Meta, Google, IIT Kharagpur, Georgia Tech

Samir Janveja
GTM
Ex Google, UCB Haas, Michigan Ross

Vishal Kumar
Solutions
Ex Amazon, Scale AI, Arizona State

Jagdeep Sahni
New Accounts
Ex Intuit, AWS, Northwestern University

Narendar Sriram
Robotics
Ex OSARO, CMU Robotics Institute

Rukesh Reddy
Founder
IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad

Navaneeth Bodla
AI & Research
Ex Adobe, Cruise, PhD from UMD, BITS Pilani

Shivangi Yadav
Evals
Ex Meta, PhD from Michigan State, IIIT Delhi

Ankit Khedia
Multimodal
Ex Meta, Google, IIT Kharagpur, Georgia Tech

Samir Janveja
GTM
Ex Google, UCB Haas, Michigan Ross

Vishal Kumar
Solutions
Ex Amazon, Scale AI, Arizona State

Jagdeep Sahni
New Accounts
Ex Intuit, AWS, Northwestern University

Narendar Sriram
Robotics
Ex OSARO, CMU Robotics Institute

Rukesh Reddy
Founder
IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad

Navaneeth Bodla
AI & Research
Ex Adobe, Cruise, PhD from UMD, BITS Pilani

Shivangi Yadav
Evals
Ex Meta, PhD from Michigan State, IIIT Delhi

Ankit Khedia
Multimodal
Ex Meta, Google, IIT Kharagpur, Georgia Tech

Samir Janveja
GTM
Ex Google, UCB Haas, Michigan Ross

Vishal Kumar
Solutions
Ex Amazon, Scale AI, Arizona State

Jagdeep Sahni
New Accounts
Ex Intuit, AWS, Northwestern University

Narendar Sriram
Robotics
Ex OSARO, CMU Robotics Institute

Rukesh Reddy
Founder
IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad

Navaneeth Bodla
AI & Research
Ex Adobe, Cruise, PhD from UMD, BITS Pilani

Shivangi Yadav
Evals
Ex Meta, PhD from Michigan State, IIIT Delhi

Ankit Khedia
Multimodal
Ex Meta, Google, IIT Kharagpur, Georgia Tech

Samir Janveja
GTM
Ex Google, UCB Haas, Michigan Ross

Vishal Kumar
Solutions
Ex Amazon, Scale AI, Arizona State

Jagdeep Sahni
New Accounts
Ex Intuit, AWS, Northwestern University

Narendar Sriram
Robotics
Ex OSARO, CMU Robotics Institute

Rukesh Reddy
Founder
IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad

Navaneeth Bodla
AI & Research
Ex Adobe, Cruise, PhD from UMD, BITS Pilani

Shivangi Yadav
Evals
Ex Meta, PhD from Michigan State, IIIT Delhi

Ankit Khedia
Multimodal
Ex Meta, Google, IIT Kharagpur, Georgia Tech

Samir Janveja
GTM
Ex Google, UCB Haas, Michigan Ross

Vishal Kumar
Solutions
Ex Amazon, Scale AI, Arizona State

Jagdeep Sahni
New Accounts
Ex Intuit, AWS, Northwestern University

Narendar Sriram
Robotics
Ex OSARO, CMU Robotics Institute

Rukesh Reddy
Founder
IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad

Navaneeth Bodla
AI & Research
Ex Adobe, Cruise, PhD from UMD, BITS Pilani

Shivangi Yadav
Evals
Ex Meta, PhD from Michigan State, IIIT Delhi

Ankit Khedia
Multimodal
Ex Meta, Google, IIT Kharagpur, Georgia Tech

Samir Janveja
GTM
Ex Google, UCB Haas, Michigan Ross

Vishal Kumar
Solutions
Ex Amazon, Scale AI, Arizona State

Jagdeep Sahni
New Accounts
Ex Intuit, AWS, Northwestern University

Narendar Sriram
Robotics
Ex OSARO, CMU Robotics Institute

Purva Bhandari
Strategy
Ex Google, McKinsey, IIT Madras, IIM Ahd

Sajo Mathews
Applied AI
Ex-Founder CTO, Zapr (acquired by Samsung), IIT Kgp, IIM Ahd

Ankur Sarawagi
GTM
Ex Cofounder Nearby, Bain, IIT Bombay

Gopi Pepakayala
RevOps
Ex-Founder OSVid, AWS, IIT Madras

Shakeel Imdad
Delivery
Ex Scale AI, HighRadius, NIT Durgapur, ISB

Jaiprasad Reddy
Coding & RL
Ex MENSA Brands, NIT Surathkal

Krishna B
Scaled Operations
Ex Amazon (Nova / Alexa Ops)

Arpit Maheshwari
Growth & Partnerships
Ex Uber AI, Scale AI, IIT Kanpur, FMS Delhi

Ginika Gupta
People & Culture
Ex Indigo, 15+ yrs. of exp., IIM Kozhikode

Mahesh Reddy
Platforms
Ex Hackerrank, 15+ yrs. of exp.

Sparsh Ganjoo
Founders Office
Ex- VC, 3one4 Capital

Purva Bhandari
Strategy
Ex Google, McKinsey, IIT Madras, IIM Ahd

Sajo Mathews
Applied AI
Ex-Founder CTO, Zapr (acquired by Samsung), IIT Kgp, IIM Ahd

Ankur Sarawagi
GTM
Ex Cofounder Nearby, Bain, IIT Bombay

Gopi Pepakayala
RevOps
Ex-Founder OSVid, AWS, IIT Madras

Shakeel Imdad
Delivery
Ex Scale AI, HighRadius, NIT Durgapur, ISB

Jaiprasad Reddy
Coding & RL
Ex MENSA Brands, NIT Surathkal

Krishna B
Scaled Operations
Ex Amazon (Nova / Alexa Ops)

Arpit Maheshwari
Growth & Partnerships
Ex Uber AI, Scale AI, IIT Kanpur, FMS Delhi

Ginika Gupta
People & Culture
Ex Indigo, 15+ yrs. of exp., IIM Kozhikode

Mahesh Reddy
Platforms
Ex Hackerrank, 15+ yrs. of exp.

Sparsh Ganjoo
Founders Office
Ex- VC, 3one4 Capital

Purva Bhandari
Strategy
Ex Google, McKinsey, IIT Madras, IIM Ahd

Sajo Mathews
Applied AI
Ex-Founder CTO, Zapr (acquired by Samsung), IIT Kgp, IIM Ahd

Ankur Sarawagi
GTM
Ex Cofounder Nearby, Bain, IIT Bombay

Gopi Pepakayala
RevOps
Ex-Founder OSVid, AWS, IIT Madras

Shakeel Imdad
Delivery
Ex Scale AI, HighRadius, NIT Durgapur, ISB

Jaiprasad Reddy
Coding & RL
Ex MENSA Brands, NIT Surathkal

Krishna B
Scaled Operations
Ex Amazon (Nova / Alexa Ops)

Arpit Maheshwari
Growth & Partnerships
Ex Uber AI, Scale AI, IIT Kanpur, FMS Delhi

Ginika Gupta
People & Culture
Ex Indigo, 15+ yrs. of exp., IIM Kozhikode

Mahesh Reddy
Platforms
Ex Hackerrank, 15+ yrs. of exp.

Sparsh Ganjoo
Founders Office
Ex- VC, 3one4 Capital

Purva Bhandari
Strategy
Ex Google, McKinsey, IIT Madras, IIM Ahd

Sajo Mathews
Applied AI
Ex-Founder CTO, Zapr (acquired by Samsung), IIT Kgp, IIM Ahd

Ankur Sarawagi
GTM
Ex Cofounder Nearby, Bain, IIT Bombay

Gopi Pepakayala
RevOps
Ex-Founder OSVid, AWS, IIT Madras

Shakeel Imdad
Delivery
Ex Scale AI, HighRadius, NIT Durgapur, ISB

Jaiprasad Reddy
Coding & RL
Ex MENSA Brands, NIT Surathkal

Krishna B
Scaled Operations
Ex Amazon (Nova / Alexa Ops)

Arpit Maheshwari
Growth & Partnerships
Ex Uber AI, Scale AI, IIT Kanpur, FMS Delhi

Ginika Gupta
People & Culture
Ex Indigo, 15+ yrs. of exp., IIM Kozhikode

Mahesh Reddy
Platforms
Ex Hackerrank, 15+ yrs. of exp.

Sparsh Ganjoo
Founders Office
Ex- VC, 3one4 Capital

Purva Bhandari
Strategy
Ex Google, McKinsey, IIT Madras, IIM Ahd

Sajo Mathews
Applied AI
Ex-Founder CTO, Zapr (acquired by Samsung), IIT Kgp, IIM Ahd

Ankur Sarawagi
GTM
Ex Cofounder Nearby, Bain, IIT Bombay

Gopi Pepakayala
RevOps
Ex-Founder OSVid, AWS, IIT Madras

Shakeel Imdad
Delivery
Ex Scale AI, HighRadius, NIT Durgapur, ISB

Jaiprasad Reddy
Coding & RL
Ex MENSA Brands, NIT Surathkal

Krishna B
Scaled Operations
Ex Amazon (Nova / Alexa Ops)

Arpit Maheshwari
Growth & Partnerships
Ex Uber AI, Scale AI, IIT Kanpur, FMS Delhi

Ginika Gupta
People & Culture
Ex Indigo, 15+ yrs. of exp., IIM Kozhikode

Mahesh Reddy
Platforms
Ex Hackerrank, 15+ yrs. of exp.

Sparsh Ganjoo
Founders Office
Ex- VC, 3one4 Capital

Purva Bhandari
Strategy
Ex Google, McKinsey, IIT Madras, IIM Ahd

Sajo Mathews
Applied AI
Ex-Founder CTO, Zapr (acquired by Samsung), IIT Kgp, IIM Ahd

Ankur Sarawagi
GTM
Ex Cofounder Nearby, Bain, IIT Bombay

Gopi Pepakayala
RevOps
Ex-Founder OSVid, AWS, IIT Madras

Shakeel Imdad
Delivery
Ex Scale AI, HighRadius, NIT Durgapur, ISB

Jaiprasad Reddy
Coding & RL
Ex MENSA Brands, NIT Surathkal

Krishna B
Scaled Operations
Ex Amazon (Nova / Alexa Ops)

Arpit Maheshwari
Growth & Partnerships
Ex Uber AI, Scale AI, IIT Kanpur, FMS Delhi

Ginika Gupta
People & Culture
Ex Indigo, 15+ yrs. of exp., IIM Kozhikode

Mahesh Reddy
Platforms
Ex Hackerrank, 15+ yrs. of exp.

Sparsh Ganjoo
Founders Office
Ex- VC, 3one4 Capital

Purva Bhandari
Strategy
Ex Google, McKinsey, IIT Madras, IIM Ahd

Sajo Mathews
Applied AI
Ex-Founder CTO, Zapr (acquired by Samsung), IIT Kgp, IIM Ahd

Ankur Sarawagi
GTM
Ex Cofounder Nearby, Bain, IIT Bombay

Gopi Pepakayala
RevOps
Ex-Founder OSVid, AWS, IIT Madras

Shakeel Imdad
Delivery
Ex Scale AI, HighRadius, NIT Durgapur, ISB

Jaiprasad Reddy
Coding & RL
Ex MENSA Brands, NIT Surathkal

Krishna B
Scaled Operations
Ex Amazon (Nova / Alexa Ops)

Arpit Maheshwari
Growth & Partnerships
Ex Uber AI, Scale AI, IIT Kanpur, FMS Delhi

Ginika Gupta
People & Culture
Ex Indigo, 15+ yrs. of exp., IIM Kozhikode

Mahesh Reddy
Platforms
Ex Hackerrank, 15+ yrs. of exp.

Sparsh Ganjoo
Founders Office
Ex- VC, 3one4 Capital

Purva Bhandari
Strategy
Ex Google, McKinsey, IIT Madras, IIM Ahd

Sajo Mathews
Applied AI
Ex-Founder CTO, Zapr (acquired by Samsung), IIT Kgp, IIM Ahd

Ankur Sarawagi
GTM
Ex Cofounder Nearby, Bain, IIT Bombay

Gopi Pepakayala
RevOps
Ex-Founder OSVid, AWS, IIT Madras

Shakeel Imdad
Delivery
Ex Scale AI, HighRadius, NIT Durgapur, ISB

Jaiprasad Reddy
Coding & RL
Ex MENSA Brands, NIT Surathkal

Krishna B
Scaled Operations
Ex Amazon (Nova / Alexa Ops)

Arpit Maheshwari
Growth & Partnerships
Ex Uber AI, Scale AI, IIT Kanpur, FMS Delhi

Ginika Gupta
People & Culture
Ex Indigo, 15+ yrs. of exp., IIM Kozhikode

Mahesh Reddy
Platforms
Ex Hackerrank, 15+ yrs. of exp.

Sparsh Ganjoo
Founders Office
Ex- VC, 3one4 Capital

Purva Bhandari
Strategy
Ex Google, McKinsey, IIT Madras, IIM Ahd

Sajo Mathews
Applied AI
Ex-Founder CTO, Zapr (acquired by Samsung), IIT Kgp, IIM Ahd

Ankur Sarawagi
GTM
Ex Cofounder Nearby, Bain, IIT Bombay

Gopi Pepakayala
RevOps
Ex-Founder OSVid, AWS, IIT Madras

Shakeel Imdad
Delivery
Ex Scale AI, HighRadius, NIT Durgapur, ISB

Jaiprasad Reddy
Coding & RL
Ex MENSA Brands, NIT Surathkal

Krishna B
Scaled Operations
Ex Amazon (Nova / Alexa Ops)

Arpit Maheshwari
Growth & Partnerships
Ex Uber AI, Scale AI, IIT Kanpur, FMS Delhi

Ginika Gupta
People & Culture
Ex Indigo, 15+ yrs. of exp., IIM Kozhikode

Mahesh Reddy
Platforms
Ex Hackerrank, 15+ yrs. of exp.

Sparsh Ganjoo
Founders Office
Ex- VC, 3one4 Capital

Purva Bhandari
Strategy
Ex Google, McKinsey, IIT Madras, IIM Ahd

Sajo Mathews
Applied AI
Ex-Founder CTO, Zapr (acquired by Samsung), IIT Kgp, IIM Ahd

Ankur Sarawagi
GTM
Ex Cofounder Nearby, Bain, IIT Bombay

Gopi Pepakayala
RevOps
Ex-Founder OSVid, AWS, IIT Madras

Shakeel Imdad
Delivery
Ex Scale AI, HighRadius, NIT Durgapur, ISB

Jaiprasad Reddy
Coding & RL
Ex MENSA Brands, NIT Surathkal

Krishna B
Scaled Operations
Ex Amazon (Nova / Alexa Ops)

Arpit Maheshwari
Growth & Partnerships
Ex Uber AI, Scale AI, IIT Kanpur, FMS Delhi

Ginika Gupta
People & Culture
Ex Indigo, 15+ yrs. of exp., IIM Kozhikode

Mahesh Reddy
Platforms
Ex Hackerrank, 15+ yrs. of exp.

Sparsh Ganjoo
Founders Office
Ex- VC, 3one4 Capital

Purva Bhandari
Strategy
Ex Google, McKinsey, IIT Madras, IIM Ahd

Sajo Mathews
Applied AI
Ex-Founder CTO, Zapr (acquired by Samsung), IIT Kgp, IIM Ahd

Ankur Sarawagi
GTM
Ex Cofounder Nearby, Bain, IIT Bombay

Gopi Pepakayala
RevOps
Ex-Founder OSVid, AWS, IIT Madras

Shakeel Imdad
Delivery
Ex Scale AI, HighRadius, NIT Durgapur, ISB

Jaiprasad Reddy
Coding & RL
Ex MENSA Brands, NIT Surathkal

Krishna B
Scaled Operations
Ex Amazon (Nova / Alexa Ops)

Arpit Maheshwari
Growth & Partnerships
Ex Uber AI, Scale AI, IIT Kanpur, FMS Delhi

Ginika Gupta
People & Culture
Ex Indigo, 15+ yrs. of exp., IIM Kozhikode

Mahesh Reddy
Platforms
Ex Hackerrank, 15+ yrs. of exp.

Sparsh Ganjoo
Founders Office
Ex- VC, 3one4 Capital

Purva Bhandari
Strategy
Ex Google, McKinsey, IIT Madras, IIM Ahd

Sajo Mathews
Applied AI
Ex-Founder CTO, Zapr (acquired by Samsung), IIT Kgp, IIM Ahd

Ankur Sarawagi
GTM
Ex Cofounder Nearby, Bain, IIT Bombay

Gopi Pepakayala
RevOps
Ex-Founder OSVid, AWS, IIT Madras

Shakeel Imdad
Delivery
Ex Scale AI, HighRadius, NIT Durgapur, ISB

Jaiprasad Reddy
Coding & RL
Ex MENSA Brands, NIT Surathkal

Krishna B
Scaled Operations
Ex Amazon (Nova / Alexa Ops)

Arpit Maheshwari
Growth & Partnerships
Ex Uber AI, Scale AI, IIT Kanpur, FMS Delhi

Ginika Gupta
People & Culture
Ex Indigo, 15+ yrs. of exp., IIM Kozhikode

Mahesh Reddy
Platforms
Ex Hackerrank, 15+ yrs. of exp.

Sparsh Ganjoo
Founders Office
Ex- VC, 3one4 Capital
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“For evaluating powerful RAG and Agentic systems, you need high quality data. Deccan AI provided us with exactly that. The team also worked very closely with us as we improved our benchmarking process and they were able to turn on a dime. I’d strongly recommend them.”

Rajhans Samdani
Principal Software Engineer


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