Sameer Mardhekar is a Senior Tech Leader & Entrepreneur with over 32 years in the IT industry. Currently driving AI-driven startup ideas at AIQs.in and AIQs-Gen.in, he also mentors startups and innovation centers like VJTI-TBI. As a Solution Architect at BMC, he guided complex agent-based, real-time streaming products in SaaS/Multi-Cloud environments.

As CTO of Barclays India, he established cloud migration and enterprise architecture for corporate banking systems. An innovator with US patents, Sameer integrates AI/ML into enterprise solutions, leveraging multiple LLMs, multimodal input, prompt engineering, and RAG architecture. His work includes E2E streaming, processing large PDFs, and similarity searches using vector databases.