AI systems and the communities around them

Member of Technical Staff
Wasmer

At Wasmer I work on developer experience, SDK and runtime integration, and the AI execution sandbox roadmap. Before that I shipped live voice agents at HiJenny, production document RAG at Tilli, and enterprise RAG and Python SDKs at Morgan Stanley. Earlier, I built payments at Khalti for 3M+ monthly active users. I study retrieval, evaluation, and self-improving systems, publish controlled studies of AI behavior, and host Bay Area events.

50+

Events hosted

5

Recent journal papers

3M+

MAU at Khalti

San Francisco, CA
ayushojhah@gmail.com
Ayush Ojha

Ayush Ojha

Member of Technical Staff, Wasmer

50+

Events hosted

Voice & chat evals
Harness

Scenarios

14

VoiceChatTool calls

Infra failures vs quality failures

3M+

MAU platform (Khalti)

5

Recent journal papers

Payment success
Before89%
After97%

Khalti, 18 banking integrations

Merged upstream

TensorFlow, Microsoft Playwright, NVIDIA tiny-cuda-nn

+4 more

RAG + Agents

Retrieval, evals, voice

MS CS, Georgia Tech

In progress

Core Capabilities

Engineering, research, and community work, with the stack I use day to day

AI Systems

RAG SystemsAgent OrchestrationEval HarnessesModel Fine-tuningVoice AITool Calling

Languages & Frameworks

PythonTypeScriptRustC++ReactNext.jsFastAPIPostgreSQL / pgvector

Payments & Developer Platforms

Payments & WalletsBanking IntegrationsFraud & Risk ScoringKYC & OnboardingDeveloper ToolsDeveloper Relations

Product & Programs

Product StrategyRoadmappingExperiment DesignStakeholder ManagementCommunity ProgramsTechnical Writing

My Approach

Principles that guide how I build

🔬

Evidence over impressions

Claims get tied to measured behavior: eval harnesses, regression coverage, and controlled studies.

🚢

Ship, then study

Production systems raise the research questions that are actually worth answering.

🤝

Build the room

The best feedback loops include other engineers, researchers, and founders.

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Working systems raise better research questions than whiteboards do, and research that never ships rarely survives contact with users.

Ayush Ojha

Ayush Ojha

How I work

My Journey

From municipal software and payments in Nepal to AI infrastructure in San Francisco

August 2026 - Present

Member of Technical Staff

Wasmer

  • Own developer experience and developer relations: onboarding developers and customers, collecting product feedback, and feeding it back into the roadmap
  • Shipped a ZIP-build reliability fix for Wasmer Anybuild with regression coverage
TypeScriptNext.jsReactRust
February 2026 - August 2026

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

HiJenny

  • Built a zero-to-one conversational product: conversation and photos become structured requirements, matched against inventory, then routed into provider outreach and payment workflows
  • Implemented live voice through LiveKit and Telnyx, plus agent orchestration, memory, tool calling, and real-time retrieval and search with citation grounding
PythonPostgreSQLReactTypeScript
December 2025 - August 2026

Product Engineer

Tilli (TilliKids)

  • Built production document RAG: ingestion, chunking, embeddings in PostgreSQL/pgvector, query rewriting, reranking, and citation-grounded responses
  • Shipped the service layer in FastAPI with Redis and Celery for background processing
PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLpgvector
April 2024 - November 2025

Product Team Lead

Morgan Stanley

  • Led product for AI and risk products, including enterprise RAG over approved data sources under strict access controls
  • Delivered Python SDKs, reference notebooks, and API playgrounds for 15+ engineering teams, helping reduce internal onboarding time by 40%
PythonRAGLLMsREST APIs
May 2021 - August 2023

Senior Product Manager

Khalti

  • Worked directly under the CTO on the consumer wallet and merchant platform serving 3M+ monthly active users
  • Personally implemented banking-integration, transaction-routing, and real-time fraud-scoring logic; helped deliver 18 banking integrations
PythonPostgreSQLRedisKafka
April 2019 - May 2021

Product Manager

Tekkon Technologies

  • Built founder-facing MVPs for Perth-based clients across fintech, payments, crypto, and healthtech
  • Led GOAT HRMS through 20+ enterprise interviews with an eight-person squad
ReactPythonREST APIsWebhooks
September 2018 - March 2019

Associate Product Manager

Smartpalika Co

  • Shipped municipal app modules for payments and construction management, translating policy requirements into product specs
  • Ran stakeholder implementation and training, producing 200+ manuals for municipal staff
E-governancePayment GatewaysMobile WalletsTraining

Education

M.S. Computer Science - Machine Learning Focus

Current

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA • 2025-08 - Present

B.CS. (Hons) Computer Science - First Class

Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur (IUKL)

Malaysia • 2019 - 2022

Certifications

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance

Certified SAFe 6 Product Owner/Product Manager

Scaled Agile, Inc.

Certified SAFe 6 Agilist

Scaled Agile, Inc.

Google Project Management Certificate

Google

AI for Product Management

Pendo.io / Mind the Product

Beyond the Screen

What fuels my creativity

Hiking & Trekking

Exploring the Himalayas and California trails

Photography

Capturing landscapes and street life

Reading

Sci-fi, Philosophy, and Tech history

Coffee Brewing

Exploring different beans and brewing methods

Want to build, study, or host something together?

I'm open to collaboration on AI systems, research discussions, and workshops or talks at Bay Area events.

Get in Touch
San Francisco, CA