Rush Shahani

Rush Shahani is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Persana AI, a B2B go-to-market orchestration platform. Prior to founding the Y Combinator-backed technology startup, he spent five years working as an artificial intelligence engineer specializing in natural language processing, holding technical roles at companies including LinkedIn and Shopify. At Persana AI, Shahani leads the development of an AI-powered sales outreach platform that utilizes reinforcement learning to create customized client models, recently helping the company secure $2.3 million in funding. Additionally, he is authoring an upcoming technical book titled "LLM Reliability" with Manning Publications, which focuses on reducing hallucinations and making large language models more dependable for enterprise applications. Shahani's current focus remains on advancing applied artificial intelligence to streamline B2B sales orchestration and improve the reliability of company-specific machine learning models.