Our team

The people who make Gracient.

Our founders and advisors bring deep experience across the full life of production software — from the systems and data platforms beneath it, to the AI on top.

Leadership

Harish Pujari

Co-founder · AI & systems architect

Twenty-five years building the storage, caching, and replication engines that enterprises trust their data to, now with the AI on top. One of the few architects who has shipped both a kernel driver and an LLM pipeline.

Agentic workflowsLLM pipelinesApplied AI
Ransomware detectionLMSVolume replicationSSD cachingCloud DRData platformsMessaging systems
VeritasHGSTPrimaryIOTalendGupshup

Sumit Kumar

Co-founder · AI & storage architect

Two decades in the systems that cannot lose a byte: filesystems, replication, disaster recovery. Now builds the AI storage and serving infrastructure that keeps production models fast, correct, and always on.

AI storageAgentic appsLLM serving
DRaaSWORM filesystemsAsync replicationFlash cachingData protectionETL pipelinesDistributed scale
VeritasPrimaryIOTalendGupshupCalsoft

Advisors

Bhagwat Pant

Advisor · Sales & marketing

Sales and marketing leader with deep experience helping technology companies build, scale, and transform their businesses across Asia. Holds a Global Executive MBA from UCLA-NUS and is based in Singapore.

Go-to-marketScale & growthAPAC growth
AdobeSDL