Rushi Luhar — CTO & Applied AI Strategist

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I help CEOs and CTOs deliver and de-risk AI initiatives, scale engineering, and turn ambiguous ideas into shipped software. Currently CTO at Jeavio (US–India).

How I work

Small bets, fast loops, and clear specs. I pair product sense with hands-on engineering to land outcomes, not demos.

  • De-risk AI Projects: Guardrails, evals, observability
  • Architect for Change: Simple, composable services
  • Ship Rapidly: Measure, learn, iterate

Now: Helping product and engineering teams turn AI concepts into reliable features in production.

Focus: Architecture that bends without breaking, safety-by-default, and developer velocity.

Collaborations: Limited availability for architecture reviews, roadmap critiques, and rapid prototyping.

What I do

Fractional CTO & Advisory

Strategic roadmapping, organizational design, and technical leadership for AI initiatives and platform investments.

AI Product Acceleration

Turn AI concepts into working products in weeks, not months. I handle the technical complexity while you focus on the business impact.

Rapid Product Ideation and Development

I work with clients to define their vision, determine key experiments, and help test and validate ideas through practical prototypes.

Selected Work

A few representative projects

Leading Mental Health Company — Agentic companion MVP

Built a therapeutic chat prototype with graph-based memory and context management to support safe, personalized experiences.

  • Worked with the C-Suite to define the product vision
  • Delivered MVP in 4 weeks
  • Multi-agent, safety aware architecture incorporating retrieval, memory, and context management

Agentic workflows Knowledge graphs Evals

Seed-stage Startup — Fan engagement platform

Re-platformed app powering major NFL activations (e.g., Super Bowl events) with reliable content delivery at scale.

  • Product Management
  • System Architecture
  • Performance & Cost Optimization

Architecture Product Management Scaling

Jeavio's Adapt Platform

Created Jeavio's RnD and applied AI practice. Built Adapt, Jeavio's LLM-powered knowledge management and project delivery platform.

  • Content pipelines & retrieval patterns
  • Prompt libraries & guardrails
  • Measurable productivity improvements

RAG Embeddings Observability

Experience snapshot

CTO — Jeavio

2018–Present · AI practice, rapid application delivery

Fractional CTO — eCare Vault

2020–Present · HIPAA-compliant workflows inside MS Teams

CTO — SentiSum

2017–2018 · NLP for customer support insights

FX Technology Lead — RBC Capital Markets

2014–2017 · Ultra-low-latency pricing systems

Engineer — BTMU, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup

2006–2014 · Front-office engineering

About

I lead at the intersection of product strategy and applied AI, with 20+ years across startups and global finance. I favor spec-first development, small iterative releases, and measurable outcomes. I'm currently focused on practical LLM use in production: retrieval, agent workflows, graph memory, and safety guardrails.

Community: building an AI developer ecosystem in Vadodara, mentoring PMs/POs, and giving talks on "thinking like an AI developer." Based in the Washington, DC area.

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