Rushikesh Hatwalne
Rushikesh Hatwalne
November 12, 2025
4 Min Read
Rushikesh Hatwalne is a Product Manager at Shakti Studio, working where real LLM workflows actually happen - from the first experiment to full production rollout. His day-to-day mission is simple: make it unbelievably smooth for teams to go from testing a model to fine-tuning it, to scaling it in production without friction, surprises, or messy engineering overhead. He spends his time obsessing over the things that break when scale shows up: the p90 latencies, the concurrency spikes, the cost cliffs. And instead of accepting them as “just how it is,” he turns them into product features that make scaling feel boringly reliable. Rushikesh is driven by the idea that powerful AI shouldn’t feel complicated. Training, fine-tuning, and serving large models should feel smooth, predictable, and cost-aware, not a heroic effort every time.
