Karthik Patil*

AI Product Executive — shipping AI and data products end-to-end.

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About

I’m Karthik, a delivery leader at Egen, based in Austin — translating ambitious programs into software that actually ships, bridging strategy, engineering, and the operational craft in between.

Karthik working at a laptop in a cafe

I spend my days at the seam between what an AI or data product should do and how it actually gets built — shaping scope, pressure-testing plans, and driving the execution that turns promising ideas into production software. I care about the boring stuff that makes delivery real: clear milestones, honest risk tracking, tight feedback loops, and the unglamorous operational work that turns a kickoff into a finished product.

Location
Austin, TX
Currently
Delivery Leader, Egen
Also building
Athena — side projects, in public.
Education
Creighton University — Heider College of Business

Selected work

A decade spent shipping AI, data, and platform products across industries.

  1. 2024 — Now Egen

    Delivery Leader

    Owning end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI and data engagements — from discovery through production rollout, with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, and customer success.

  2. Prior Delivery & Engineering

    Delivery leadership across data & AI programs

    Led teams that shipped data platforms, ML products, and AI-powered workflows for customers in healthcare, retail, and financial services.

  3. Operating principles How I work

    Plans you can ship against.

    I write delivery plans the same way I'd write code — precise, testable, and small enough to ship. Vision is cheap; the craft is in the cadence of delivery.

  4. Education Creighton University

    Heider College of Business

    Foundations in business, technology, and the overlap between the two.

Selected clients

Organizations I’ve consulted for — across defense, finance, healthcare, retail, and tech.

Contact

Let’s talk.

The best way to reach me is email. If you prefer the feed, I'm on the usual places.

contact@karthikpatil.com