Name:Kanav Bhatnagar

Bio:

Kanav Bhatnagar is a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Rippling, where he is part of the founding team building and scaling the forward-deployed engineering function from the ground up. Specializing in the intersection of applied AI/ML, distributed systems, and enterprise data architecture, his work focuses on adapting foundational models and building scalable software solutions for complex enterprise challenges.

Education & Core Expertise

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science (Graduated Early)
• Technical Focus | Applied AI/ML, distributed systems, enterprise data architecture, and software engineering scalability.

Professional Background

• Rippling | Founding member of the Forward Deployed Engineering function.
• Amazon | Developed scalable live-streaming technology.
• Actively AI | Optimized machine learning pipelines.
• Industry Contribution | Technical judge for premier hackathons including HackMIT and YHack
• Academic Contributions | “The Missing Requirements Layer in Forward Deployed Engineering”

Country:United States

Affiliation:Rippling

Research interests:Artificial Intelligence, Forward Deployed Engineering