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Ajai Sharma — Chief Product and Technology Officer at CloudFactory. AWS SageMaker, McKinsey, Holomorphic AI Labs. Berkeley, Wharton.

Contact Information

Name Ajai Sharma
Professional Title Chief Product and Technology Officer, CloudFactory
Email ajai.sharma@gmail.com
Location Los Altos, California

Professional Summary

AI product and technology executive with 15+ years of experience building, scaling, and exiting AI businesses. Currently CPTO at CloudFactory, leading the GenAI Agent Platform, ML Science, and Forward Deployed Engineering teams. Previously cofounder/CEO of Holomorphic AI Labs, Head of Product for AWS SageMaker, and an Expert at McKinsey & Company.

Experience

  • 2025 - Present

    Los Altos, CA

    Chief Product and Technology Officer — GenAI Agent Platform
    CloudFactory
    Lead 300+ global staff across Engineering, ML Research, Product Management, Architecture, DevOps, and Solutions. Own platform vision, technical roadmap, GTM integration, enterprise delivery, and major strategic accounts at this Series C Enterprise GenAI Enablement company.
    • Architected and launched a Generative AI Agent Platform enabling autonomous workflow execution and multi-step decision automation across complex enterprise systems.
    • Built production retrieval and model-adaptation pipelines (GenBI, RAG, LoRA, embeddings tuning) enabling domain-specific reasoning without full retraining.
    • Reduced inference cost by 30%+ at scale through quantization, KV-cache optimization, batch scheduling, and GPU memory efficiency improvements.
    • Designed multi-region, multi-tenant AI infrastructure with zero-trust controls, governance, encryption, auditability, and SOC2+/HIPAA enterprise compliance.
    • Delivered an agentic orchestration runtime combining LLM planning with deterministic tool execution.
    • Implemented hybrid BM25 + neural embedding vector search and semantic memory layering to reduce hallucination loops.
    • Led evaluation frameworks for truthfulness, robustness, prompt leakage, and semantic drift monitoring.
    • Engaged directly with CIO/CTO stakeholders to define AI transformation roadmaps and close enterprise contracts.
  • 2023 - 2025

    Los Altos, CA

    Cofounder, Chief Executive Officer
    Holomorphic AI Labs
    Built enterprise-grade AI Agents that are safe and work reliably — a GenAI LLM agents and reasoning API platform.
    • Led product on the Holomorphic agentic reasoning platform.
    • Applied GenAI expertise across financial services, marketing, and biotech/pharma.
    • Managed the PM organization working at the cutting edge of GenAI, agents, and reasoning.
  • 2020 - 2023

    Palo Alto, CA

    Head of Product — Deep Learning, SageMaker
    Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Launched and scaled what became one of the largest AI platforms in the world.
    • Grew the business from zero to tens of thousands of weekly active users and multi-billion-dollar ARR.
    • Extensive experience in hyperscale ML model training, inference, and ML Ops across AI, GenAI, and traditional ML.
    • Worked across engineering, science, product, marketing, GTM strategy, sales, strategic accounts, and product strategy.
  • 2015 - 2020

    San Francisco Bay Area

    Expert — AI / Deep Learning Product
    McKinsey & Company
    • Led teams of applied scientists and engineers to build, train, and deploy ML models for the world’s largest insurance (Auto, Health, P&C, ReInsurance), financial services, and pharma companies.
    • Drove AI strategy for global enterprises across financial services, insurance, and healthcare.
  • 2012 - Present

    Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

    Strategic and Investment Advisor
    Raniga Family Office and Charities
    Advise the principal on technology investments, portfolio strategy, and governance across family estate and philanthropic initiatives.
  • 2013 - 2015

    San Francisco, CA

    Sr. Director PM — AI/ML Strategic Initiatives
    US Capital Global
    Joined after SMB Adviser AI was acquired by US Capital Global; led AI/ML strategic initiatives.
  • 2010 - 2013

    Palo Alto, CA

    Cofounder, CEO
    SMB Adviser AI
    Cofounded and led an early AI startup, acquired by US Capital Global in 2013.

Education

  • Philadelphia, PA

    MBA
    The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
    Business Administration

  • Berkeley, CA

    Bachelor's degree
    University of California, Berkeley
    Mathematics and Statistics

  • San Diego, CA

    High School
    Mt. Carmel High School

Awards

  •
    The Marvin Award
    McKinsey & Company

    Internal recognition awarded by McKinsey & Company.

  • McKinsey New Ventures Competition — International Finalist
    McKinsey & Company
  •
    USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO)
    Mathematical Association of America

    Qualified for the USA Mathematical Olympiad.

  • AMC 12 — Perfect Score
    Mathematical Association of America

    Achieved a perfect score on the AMC 12 mathematics competition.

Skills

AI Platform & Agents (Expert): GenAI agent platforms, agent harness optimization, LLM planning, tool use, agentic orchestration, RAG, LoRA, embeddings tuning, vector search (BM25 + neural), semantic memory
ML Systems & Inference (Expert): Hyperscale training & inference, quantization, KV cache optimization, batch scheduling, GPU efficiency, autoscaling, MLOps, latency engineering
Enterprise AI Strategy (Expert): AI transformation roadmaps, CIO/CTO advisory, enterprise GTM, financial services, insurance, healthcare, oil & gas, supply chain, autonomous vehicles
Leadership (Expert): 300+ global org leadership, Sr Director→IC stack across US/EU/APAC, Principal ML & Staff Architect bench building, benchmarking & reliability discipline
Product & Business (Expert): Product strategy, corporate development, R&D, UX, product marketing, GTM, BD, finance, investments, financial analysis

Languages

English : Native / Bilingual