Rohit Kelapure
Product builder @ 8090 | (ex-Google)
- Role
- Cofounder and Forward Deployed Engineer at 8090 Solutions
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rohit Kelapure
Forward-deployed Engineer at 8090 applying AI to Pharma and Healthcare problems. Led Google Cloud\'s go-to-market strategy for the applications and databases business. Founding member of Pivotal Labs\' legacy application modernization practice, scaling from $0 to $250M ARR in three years. Led enterprise engagements that were featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Experience
Cofounder and Forward Deployed Engineer
Jun 2024 — Present · Palo Alto, CA, US
I design and deliver applied AI solutions. I established 8090\'s forward-deployed engineering practice. I work with customers to define product requirements and technical specifications, driving solutions that leverage AI in healthcare, pharma, and medical device verticals. Applied AI projects: Diagnostic Assay Research PlatformLeading development of a research acceleration platform for a Fortune 500 diagnostics company. Built study plan management, data processing pipelines, and integrations that reduced coordination overhead for assay development teams. Technology Leadership (Forward Deployed CTO)Serving as a forward-deployed CTO for a pharmaceutical company, establishing a structured approach to AI adoption. Partnered with commercial and technical leadership to shift from exploratory projects to strategic, executive-sponsored initiatives. Identified high-value automation opportunities across US commercial operations.Document Intelligence and Audit AutomationBuilt and deployed an AI-powered document processing system for a national healthcare equipment provider. Automated intake of faxes weekly at 82% touchless rate, created 217 orders weekly with 99% patient matching accuracy, and processed 130 Medicare audits weekly—saving 40 minutes per audit. Delivered $1M in annualized savings.PRD Evaluation as a Service (evalgpt.com AI Evals)Created an 11-point LLM-as-judge evaluation framework for assessing product requirements documents. Developed objective pass/fail criteria that enable automated PRD quality assessment, helping product teams catch specification gaps before engineering handoff.Applied AI Engineer, AI Risk SystemsBuilt an enterprise AI risk management platform modeled after compliance automation tools like Vanta. Created a live dashboard that tracks open risks, control status, and compliance posture across AI initiatives. Implemented a Gartner-based risk taxonomy mapped to EU AI Act categories with control ownership assignments.
Education
Virginia Tech
MS, Computer Science
2001 — 2003
Bhavans A H WADIA HIGH SCHOOL
Secondary School Certificate, general
1987 — 1995
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Computer Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science
1997 — 2001
Skills
- Evangelism
- Wicket
- Json
- Javascript
- Web Servers (Apache)
- Openstack
- Maven
- Vagrant
- Cloud Computing Iaas
- Devops
- Micro Services
- Sales
- Vmware Vsphere
- Domain-Driven Design (Ddd)
- Eclipse Swt
- Sql
- Hibernate
- Proxy Servers (Squid, Websphere)
- Soa
- Netflix Oss
- .net
- Gradle
- Ant
- Event Storming
- Git
- Eclipse Memory Analyzer
- Api Management
- Vmware Esx
- Cloud Foundry
- Site Reliability
- Docker
- Node,Js
- Application Servers (Jboss, Websphere, Weblogic, Tomcat)
- Bosh
- Paas
- Golang
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Ruby on Rails
- Intellij Idea
- Eclipse Rcp
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