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Kishore Pallamreddy Spent 18 Years Making Travel Software Behave. Now He Wants AI to Earn Its Boarding Pass.
The Zapcom founder built his career inside the invisible machinery of travel. His next wager is that enterprise AI needs the same discipline: product judgment, durable architecture, and an unforgiving eye for the customer.
Mahesh Kumar Bet on the Unfashionable Work of Making Software Useful
From business consulting to running Apptomate across Chennai and San Francisco, Mahesh Kumar has built a career around translation - turning technical possibility into software that organizations can actually use.
Tom Eliaz
Tom Eliaz is the Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Bedrock Robotics, a San Francisco-based startup building autonomous systems for heavy construction equipment. With over two decades of software engineering leadership spanning robotics, cloud infrastructure, and AI, he previously led 100+ engineers at Twilio Engage, directed engineering at Segment through its $3.2B acquisition, and was an early cloud platform engineer at Anki. Before Bedrock, he also founded a healthcare technology company. At Bedrock - a $1.75B-valued company that raised $270M in Series B funding in February 2026 - Eliaz applies engineering depth to the problem of retrofitting excavators and heavy machinery with LiDAR, GPS, and AI software to run autonomously on construction sites 24/7.
Hamza Muhammad Khan
Hamza Muhammad Khan is a Karachi-based DevOps and cloud engineer who climbed from supporting small-scale WordPress deployments to managing infrastructure at DigitalOcean as an Engineer II before moving into banking-sector DevOps at Bank Al Habib Limited. Educated at NED University (Master's in Computer Science, 2023) and the University of Karachi (Bachelor's in Computer Software Engineering, 2019), he specializes in Linux administration, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platform operations - and moonlights as a blockchain tinkerer and machine-learning experimenter on GitHub.