Building AI‑Enabled Teams in Practice

As Vice President, Platform Engineering at Freshworks, Vamsee Lakamsani leads a 200+ engineer organization responsible for the cloud-native, distributed services foundation that powers 72,000+ customer accounts globally as well as internal AI adoption to accelerate product development. Over more than 30 years, his experience has spanned Service Operations (ITOM, ITSM) SaaS at ServiceNow, software to build and operate the world's largest laser system that achieved nuclear fusion at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, mobile app analytics SaaS at CA Technologies, and a successful startup during an earlier stage of Internet adoption. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and is passionate about mentoring and building highly productive, geographically distributed engineering teams.

Bhupesh Bansal is the Head of Engineering for Square Banking, with nearly two decades of experience scaling teams and products at some interesting companies at Handshake, Robinhood, LinkedIn. Bhupesh specializes in building systems and products at scale reaching over 100 million users and is passionate about leadership grounded in empathy, agility, and mentorship.

Kashyap is an Engineering Director at Verily, the healthcare and life sciences arm of Alphabet, where he leads its Developer AI initiatives. In the past, he TL'ed the creation of its continuous health monitoring data platform and Verily's migration from Google's internal cloud to public cloud.

Kashyap is also a member of the Association of Computing Machinery's Tech Briefs Committee, which presents scientifically-grounded perspectives on salient issues for tech professionals and policymakers.

Jon is a Partner at Khosla Ventures passionate about machine learning and its impact on enterprise infrastructure, applications, and developer tools.

Prior to KV, Jon built a career in technology as a founder, early employee, and organizational leader across a variety of engineering and product roles. He began his career as an early engineer at Palantir (PLTR), helping scale it from 200 to 1800 employees and founded and sold KoalityCode to Docker, where he created and led Docker’s enterprise division. At Opendoor (OPEN), Jon held roles as both Head of Product for Growth and Head of Engineering for Core Machine Learning helping scale the company to IPO. Most recently, Jon spent time at Facebook leading international engineering organizations in both VR & ML.

Jon holds a B.S. in Computer Science with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University.