Rahul Chandrasekaran
Founder & CTO at Stealth AI Startup
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
About Rahul Chandrasekaran
Rahul Chandrasekaran is Founder & CTO at Stealth AI Startup. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States.
Founder/CTO who builds hard, high-impact systems at the intersection of GenAI, vertical SaaS, and large-scale distributed systems. Currently building an autonomous agentic AI system. Career highlights: • Intuit: Tech lead for QuickBooks Capital. Led GenAI + fintech initiatives across stablecoin-based cross-border payments, multi-agent AI underwriting, and a next-gen lending marketplace built to scale across third-party lending partners. • BasementLabs: Solopreneur founder of the AI reading platform “Converse.” Took it from idea → product → ~10k paying customers, owning everything from LLM fine-tuning and full-stack infrastructure to growth, billing, and support. • Meta: Lead architect on the re-architecture of real-time communication systems supporting 1B+ minutes of communication per day, including early work for large-group calls and metaverse-style experiences. • VMware: Early/founding engineer and technical lead on VMware Cloud on AWS. Built elasticity and high-availability features (stretched clusters, auto-remediation, autoscaling) that delivered 99.99% uptime for enterprise customers. • Innovation: Inventor with 6 approved U.S. patents and 10+ pending in cloud, HA, and virtualization - often driving the “version 0.5” prototypes that later become core platform capabilities. I’m happiest when I’m acting as a hands-on architect: going from whiteboard to design docs to production systems, with direct feedback from customers and domain experts.
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Additional experience
Principal Software Engineer
Intuit
April 2024 – August 2025
Education
- MS, Syracuse University
- B. Tech, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering