PRAJNA KANDARPA
Invents
Product Lines.
Grows Teams.
A hands-on architect who invents entire new product lines — and grooms and drives the large engineering teams that scale them — across healthcare, telecom and energy. Lately: pushing enterprise learning loops to build narrow, sovereign AI.
autonomize.ai
Currently Chief Architect and on the executive leadership team at autonomize.ai — owning the architecture and engineering practice behind its healthcare Data & AI platform.
Founder of Apariva Systems — most recently architecting GEMOS, a gigawatt-scale energy optimization platform, while consulting full-time for Greenko's CEO office. Across a decade I've built the same thing in healthcare, telecom and energy: teams and platforms that turn data and ML into products that scale.
Chief Architect · Exec Leadership
autonomize.aiChief Architect and a member of the executive leadership team. Architected the company's enterprise-grade multi-agent workflow platform for healthcare, pioneered its FHIR interoperability layers, and built the Context Graph — a knowledge graph of 9M+ healthcare & biomedical concepts plus payer guidelines — that grounds the agents in clinical and coverage truth.
Architect — GEMOS
Greenko GroupArchitected the Greenko Energy Management & Optimization System — the central platform that schedules and dispatches a gigawatt-scale renewables-plus-storage portfolio (wind, solar, pumped hydro, BESS, hydro, thermal, green ammonia) against supply contracts and spot markets, while enforcing IEGC 2023 grid-code compliance. Built as founder of Apariva Systems, consulting full-time for Greenko's CEO office.
Founder & Managing Partner
Apariva SystemsFounded April 2025. First engagement: consulting full-time for Greenko's CEO office to build GEMOS. Advises businesses building Data and AI products from zero to scale.
AVP — Data & AI Platform
TecnotreeContinued from CognitiveScale after Tecnotree acquired it — same Data & AI platform charter, expanded to lead engineering, product and customer delivery end to end for a global telecom software vendor, owning both what got built and how it landed with customers.
Director of Engineering
CognitiveScaleLed Engineering, QA and (briefly) SRE for the India division of an enterprise AI platform company. My team pioneered Trusted AI for enterprises — explainability, fairness, robustness and regulatory compliance via Cortex Certifai & Fabric, deployed across AWS / Azure / GCP / OpenShift. Grew from Sr. Software Engineer → Sr. Technical Lead → Director.
VP — Software
Muse WearablesBuilt the entire software team (frontend, backend, mobile) and helped secure $140K+ in pre-orders for a hybrid smartwatch.
Founding Engineer · Employee #1
Acerta Systems AnalyticsBuilt web apps, backend services, ML models and data pipelines for manufacturing/automotive IoT analytics during a 14-month founding stint.
Mechatronics Engineering (Hons)
University of WaterlooBachelor of Applied Science. International Undergraduate Scholarship, Faculty of Engineering. Earlier: diagnostics engineering intern at Arista Networks.
Product Invention
As a hands-on individual contributor, I invent and architect entire new product lines — from a blank page to shipped product — owning the hardest technical bets myself.
Narrow Sovereign AI
I push the envelope of enterprise learning loops to build narrow, sovereign AI — domain-owned models and feedback systems that sharpen every cycle, kept in-house and under the organisation's control.
Player-Coach Leadership
I groom, mentor and drive large engineering teams in parallel — growing engineers and ICs while staying deep in the architecture and the code.
Platform & Engineering Rigor
CI/CD, security, observability and cloud-native architecture — the disciplined foundation that makes invention durable, scalable and safe.
Trusted & Responsible AI
Explainability, fairness, robustness and regulatory compliance built into models from the start — the discipline my team pioneered for enterprises at CognitiveScale.
Agentic Systems & Knowledge Graphs
Multi-agent platforms grounded in domain knowledge graphs — FHIR interoperability and a 9M-concept Context Graph that keep agents anchored to real-world truth.
Optimization at Scale
Large-scale dispatch, scheduling and constraint optimization under hard regulatory limits — the engine behind gigawatt-scale energy systems like GEMOS.
Zero-to-One & Advisory
Founding and consulting — taking products from idea to revenue and advising CXO offices on where to place their Data and AI bets.