Abhinav Kulkarni
AI @ Ola Krutrim | IIM A | IIT KGP
- Role
- Program Manager - Ai at Ola
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Abhinav Kulkarni
Program manager with 12+ years of experience, most recently focused on AI.At Ola, I have worked on end-to-end program management and delivery across the AI lifecycle — data operations, model training, model evaluation and deployment — spanning machine learning, deep learning, foundational LLMs, and complex agentic systems across multiple business verticals. I have also led a large-scale cloud infrastructure migration program.Outside of tech, I have earlier experience in automotive engineering and real estate.Interested in AI product development and helping organisations build genuine AI capability — whether through building new products or integrating AI into existing operations.
Experience
Program Manager - Ai
Jun 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Founding team member of Krutrim, Ola\'s AI business. Worked on 0 to 1 products Worked with CXOs on driving AI programs across verticals – Cabs, Financial Services, Electric and Krutrim Program lead for agentic AI customer support chatbot for Ola Cabs and Ola Electric Model evaluation lead for Krutrim foundational LLM and all AI components of Krutrim chat app Led AI-based Proximity unlock feature, first AI feature for Ola electric scooter AI Data Ops lead – pre-training and fine-tuning data collection for Krutrim LLM Data Ops Program lead for ASR-TTS for English-to-Indic video live streaming Led program for large-scale cloud infra migration for Ola Cabs
Education
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Master of Business Administration
2013 — 2015
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
B Tech + M Tech, Mechanical Engineering
2006 — 2011
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
B.Tech + M.Tech (Mechanical Engineering)
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