Ankit Maheshwari, Chief Product and Technology Officer and founding team member at Innovaccer, traces his fascination with artificial intelligence (AI) back to a moment many technologists recognize: the first time code felt like power.
In school, as he was introduced to the basics of programming around Class 10, computing shifted from curiosity to possibility.
“That was the first glimpse of how a few lines of code could create something real,” he recalls. “It was a powerful interaction, one that sparked an attraction for creating and building anything with a few lines of code.” The experience would shape every decision that followed, from his choice of subjects to his career in technology.
By his second year of engineering, when AI and machine learning (ML) were largely academic concepts in India, Maheshwari was already pushing beyond theory.
His college’s software incubator became a proving ground.
