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Vish Kulkarni

Forward Deployment

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ElevenLabs

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As part of the forward deployed team at ElevenLabs, I work with enterprise customers across industries to design, build, and launch voice agents that carry real workload. Support lines, scheduling, intake, outbound follow-up. Off-hours, I run my own AI research infrastructure to stay hands-on with the technology I evaluate. Personal AI infrastructure (built on personal time + equipment): → Autonomous agent orchestrator running on a Mac Mini coordinating ~30 specialized agents (research aggregators, content drafters, daily digests, monitoring loops). All sharing one MCP-based memory substrate - Postgres + pgvector + tiered summarization. Patterns informed by Letta sleep-time agents, AgeMem typed memory ops, and openhuman's memory tree, re-implemented with measured improvements over each. The goal: understand multi-agent coordination at the implementation level. → Voice cascade architecture for hold-to-talk interaction with frontier LLMs: whisper.cpp local STT → Anthropic API → ElevenLabs / kokoro-onnx TTS, accessible from iPhone via Tailscale HTTPS. Extended into a voice-native kid story platform that generates illustrated stories on the fly. Built to learn the latency, the failure

Experience

Product, Tech Strategy and Partnerships (AI, Health, Mobile)Samsung Electronics
Jan 2024 to Jan 2026
Venture ScoutAlumni Ventures
Jan 2023
Advisor / InvestorVarious Companies
Jan 2020 to Jan 2025
Co-Founder & COO / Founding PMMediKarma
Jan 2021 to Jan 2024
Forward DeploymentElevenLabs
Aug 2026
Sr. Director, Product ManagementMammoth Biosciences
Jan 2021 to Jan 2021
Director, Global MarketingCepheid
Jan 2016 to Jan 2021
Sr. Manager, Product ManagementiRhythm Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2014 to Jan 2016
Manager, ProductTE Connectivity
Jan 2013 to Jan 2014
Engineer, Program Manager, Product ManagerMedtronic
Jan 2006 to Jan 2013

Education

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General
2012 to 2014
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management
2012 to 2014
Wright State University
MS Computer Engineering
2001 to 2004
Coursera
Certificate Generative AI with Large Language Models
Stanford University
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
2018
Harvard Medical School
Leading Digital Transformation in Health Care
Harvard Medical School
Leading Digital Transformation in Health Care
University of Colorado Boulder
Certificate Program Project Management
2007 to 2008