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Rushi LuharEngineering, AI & the human side.

Strategy meets the craft of building

CTO & Applied
AI Strategist

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).

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How I work

Small bets.
Fast loops.
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

Ideas in practice

Selected writing

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I write about building useful AI systems, the changing craft of software engineering, and the human decisions behind technology.

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AI

This Is Fine

AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and exploitation while exposing the accumulated fragility of software and the ambiguity of agent authorization.

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AI

A cave under the house

My grandfather claimed that there was a magical cave under his house, full of treasure. We just needed to dig through the floor, but my grandmother wouldn't

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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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