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Naveen Agnihotri
Head of Cumberland Lab

Naveen has a deep background in technology, especially AI and data. He was a brain scientist at Columbia University and MIT, where he worked on how to make computer networks behave like networks in the brain.

Naveen created the world’s first self-serve AI modeling service, and has created and launched companies in various industry sectors including financial services, security, logistics, and most recently blockchain and DeFi.

Naveen Agnihotri
Head of Cumberland Lab
Vinayak Javaly
Systems Architect

Vinayak is an expert in systems design, with over 25 years’ experience in big data, machine learning and more recently in blockchain based systems. He focuses on application development, scalability, performance tuning and capacity planning.
Vinayak teaches at Baruch college in New York, and is a frequent guest lecturer on Big Data at Rutgers, NYU, and General Assembly. He is passionate about how to get good ideas to scale.

Vinayak Javaly
Systems Architect
Ivan Shatsilenia
Senior AI/ML engineer

Ivan is an expert in machine learning and AI, with 8+ years of experience with all kinds of traditional and non-traditional data. He has crafted his skills with aggregated data from all kinds of data sources, with most recent emphasius on direct on-chain data. He focuses on model development with statistical and advanced techniques, like LSTM, BERT and GNNs.
His passion is bringing the best of AI to web3 and blockchain.

Ivan Shatsilenia
Senior AI/ML engineer
Pablo Ramella
Senior developer

Pablo is a full-stack developer with 12+ years of experience in AI projects, 8+ in fintech, and 4+ in DeFi. He writes flawless code in 10+ languages, and has worked on a wide variety of systems including UNIX, Linux, SQL, NoSQL, and all aspects of software development. He focuses on all aspects of systems design and implementation, from concept to deployment.
When he isn't writing DeFi code, he is an amazing artist: his art hangs in galleries in NY and around the world.

Pablo Ramella
Senior developer
Shishir Singh
Solution Architect

Shishir started his career in the enterprise software arena, gaining a strong understanding of the operations and complexities inherent in multinational business operations before moving to the world of entrepreneurship and start-ups.

With over 2 decades of experience in the software industry, his foray into the world of blockchain involves several nuances e.g. Defi, On-Chain Oracles, zero Knowledge research on various industry use cases and core blockchain engineering etc

Shishir Singh
Solution Architect
Kushagra Jindal
Technical Architect

Kushagra has a deep understanding and has developed several hands-on experiences on different blockchains e.g. Ethereum, BSC, Polygon and Solana etc.

He has achieved an expert level of proficiency in many use cases around blockchains. With his deep understanding of architecture, he is able to solve some very trivial industry problems like NFT commercialisation, MEV, zero-knowledge SNARK usage etc.

Kushagra Jindal
Technical Architect
Kavitha Kanaparthi
Business Analyst

Kavitha Kanaparthi is an Electrical Engineer from Washington University, St.Louis turned entrepreneur with experience in IT, Food and Sports domains. She is an expert in product development and a business architect with technology and analytical skills, business acumen, and leadership. Her career was in both private and government sectors in United States.

She currently develops products and technologies in the blockchain domain, focusing on privacy and new blockchain protocols.

Kavitha Kanaparthi
Business Analyst