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Lomesh Dutta

Vice President of Growth

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About

I lead product strategy and ecosystem development for technical platforms, setting priorities and driving delivery of the infrastructure, applications, and integrations that fuel platform adoption. Most recently, I led product growth and monetization for Caffeine.ai, an AI app-builder, taking it from private alpha to public launch to paying customers. I designed its pricing, ran onboarding and conversion experiments, and owned unit economics. I partnered with engineering to reduce AI inference cost per build and led development of an internal agent stack that let a small team run growth, marketing, and customer operations. Previously, I served on the leadership team at DFINITY, an a16z-backed R&D lab ($200M raised) building serverless compute infrastructure. I owned the build-out of third-party infrastructure, tooling, applications, and partner integrations around the core platform, taking it from zero to thousands of developers and supporting hundreds of startups. That meant building ecosystem strategies around new platform capabilities, representing builders in the product roadmap, and scaling the DevRel and Solutions Architecture teams that helped external developers build and l

Experience

Vice President of GrowthCaffeine Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Aug 2025 to May 2026
Vice President of GrowthDFINITY Foundation
Feb 2021 to May 2026
Vice President of GrowthAbra
Oct 2017 to Feb 2021
Vice President of Business, Developer Platform (Payments)Paytm
Dec 2015 to Oct 2017
Vice President / Head of Growth (Bill Payments)Paytm
Dec 2015 to Oct 2017
Vice President of Business (Merchant Lending)Paytm
Dec 2015 to Oct 2017
Co-Founder and CEO (acquired by Paytm)Near.in Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jul 2014 to Nov 2015
Director, Business & Corporate Development (acquired by AVG - an Avast company)Location Labs by Avast
Sep 2011 to Feb 2014
Co-Founder and COO (acquired by Location Labs)Wirkle Inc.
Sep 2006 to Sep 2011

Education

Delhi College of Engineering
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
1998 to 2002
The University of New Mexico
Master of Science (M.S.)
2002 to 2004
Ecole d'ingénieurs et d'architectes de Fribourg / Hochschule für Technik und Architektur Freiburg
2001 to 2001