Rakesh Kothari

Rakesh Kothari is the Co-founder and CEO of Deductive AI. He is an IIT Kharagpur alumnus and a veteran engineer from Databricks and ThoughtSpot. With deep expertise in building large-scale distributed systems, he is now focused on using AI to solve reliability challenges. His company builds AI agents that autonomously debug and resolve software incidents.

Deductive AI builds AI-powered Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) agents that automate the detection and resolution of software issues. The platform connects to an organization's observability stack to analyze logs, metrics, and traces, effectively "deducing" the root cause of incidents. By acting as an autonomous teammate for engineering teams, it reduces downtime and operational toil.