Tarkeshwar Thakur

Tarkeshwar Thakur is the CTO and Co-Founder of Drivetrain, a strategic finance platform that helps businesses make better decisions.1 He is an experienced technology leader and entrepreneur with a diverse background in software engineering, machine learning, and startup founding.

Career Highlights

Current Role: Thakur is currently building Drivetrain, where he leads the development of their strategic finance platform.1

Previous Experiences:

• Freshworks: He was an engineering leader, heading machine learning and data platform teams. He played a key role in developing Freddy, an intelligent customer support agent, and launching the Freshsales CRM product.1

• Chatimity: Thakur was the Founder and CEO of Chatimity, a social chat application that grew to over 3 million users. The company developed chat technology, employed ML and AI solutions, and later pivoted to business use cases before being acquired by Freshworks in 2016.1

• Google: As a Senior Software Engineer at Google Bangalore, he worked on search projects, including one of the first social search initiatives that integrated results from Orkut into Google search.1

Education

Thakur graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 2000.1

Skills and Expertise

Throughout his career, Thakur has demonstrated expertise in:

• Software engineering
• Machine learning and AI
• Product development
• Startup leadership
• Strategic finance

Tarkeshwar Thakur's journey from a software engineer at Google to a successful entrepreneur and now the CTO of Drivetrain showcases his technical prowess and business acumen in the technology industry.