Pujun Bhatnagar

Cofounder & CEO at Kintsugi: saving businesses from sales tax in 7 clicks and 3 mins | MIT & Harvard MBA dropout | CS AI grad @ Stanford

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With a focus and deep expertise in machine learning and all things AI, my journey has evolved into the role of Cofounder and CEO at Kintsugi, where I apply my technical prowess in Machine and Deep Learning to create vertical models that serve as indirect-tax engine that power Kintsugi AI. My tenure as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Facebook was marked by significant contributions to ML filtering and Ranking models, enhancing the precision and effectiveness of Fb, Instagram and Messenger Stories product. The skills honed there now underpin my strategic direction at Kintsugi, guiding a team in crafting cutting-edge, AI-driven contextual models.

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Experience (27 roles)

Guest Lecturer

Current

Stanford University · Seasonal

Mar 2025 - Present · 5 mos·Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

Teaching graduate students Skills: Guest Lecturing · Public Lectures · Research Skills

Cofounder, CEO

Current

Kintsugi · Full-time

Sep 2021 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos·San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Skills: Deep Learning · Machine Learning · Full-Stack Development

Part of Stanford Startup Accelerator

StartX · Full-time

Sep 2023 - Apr 2024 · 8 mos·Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

was working on Kintsugi as part of startup program Skills: CEOs · Full-Stack Development · Go-to-Market Strategy

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Education (8)

Harvard Business School

Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

Started MBA but never finished. dropped out to cofound and pursue a startup. Currently based out of SF. Time at HBS was good but there is bigger fish to fry and company to build.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2021 - 2022

left MIT to work on my startup over the summer in the US which wasn't allowed by MIT Sloan as someone on F1 visa but with already a Masters degree. wanted to pursue an idea and staying at MIT wasn't worth not working on the idea so dropped out

Stanford University

Sep 2015 - Jun 2017

Graduate school in Artificial Intelligence at the CS department. Graduated with a MSCS degree to work at Facebook fulltime as an ML engineer. kick-started ML team at FB stories.

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LinearJavaScriptPythonKafkaPHP

Languages (4)▼

Sanskrit(Limited working proficiency)English(Full professional proficiency)Punjabi(Elementary proficiency)HIndi(Native or bilingual proficiency)

Volunteer Experience (1)▼

Walker Park project volunteer

IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu

Oct 2013 - May 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos

Honors & Awards (5)▼

top 1% of graduating class

Issued by Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi · May 2015

Associated with Georgia Institute of Technology I was fortunate that Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi, some of the most prestigious Honors societies at Georgia Tech for engineering

Winner at Fishackathon

Issued by U.S. Department of State · Jun 2014

Associated with Pandora Winner of the silicon valley Fishackathon that was organized at the Monterey Bay Aquarium from June 13 - June 15. It was organized by the U.S. Department of State. Won a $1000, a two night stay in 5 star hotel of choice and free tickets valid for 1 year.

Suma Cum Laude & Faculty Honors

Issued by Georgia Institute of Technology · May 2015

Associated with Georgia Institute of Technology I was given the Faculty/highest Honors at Georgia Institute of Technology for getting a 4.0 GPA in my major.

Batts and Brown scholarship winner

Issued by Georgia Tech and Warren L Batts · Apr 2015

Associated with Georgia Institute of Technology Won $10000 scholarship for conducting excellent research for 3.5 years, in the field of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), as an undergraduate.

Willem's Scholar

Issued by MIT · Sep 2021

Associated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology