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Ram Kumar Rengaswamy

Co-Founder CTO at Octogen AI

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Ram Kumar Rengaswamy is Co-Founder CTO at Octogen AI as of January 2024[1][3]. Rengaswamy previously co-founded Roscoe Labs, an incubator based in New York[2][4]. Before that, Rengaswamy served as SVP of Engineering at FreeWheel, a Comcast company[2][6]. Rengaswamy co-founded BeeswaxIO and served as CTO, building the engineering team and architecting real-time bidding systems handling millions of requests per second on AWS[2][7]. Prior to founding BeeswaxIO, Rengaswamy worked at Google as both Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead and Manager, with experience on products including Google Ad Exchange[2][8][9]. Rengaswamy holds a PhD in Embedded Computing Systems from UCLA and a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi[10][11].

Profile introduction
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I am currently the co-founder of Roscoe Labs, an incubator based in New York. Before that, I was SVP of Engineering at Freewheel, a Comcast company where I lead overall architecture and DSP Products. Previously, I was the CTO at BeeswaxIO, a company I co-founded and sold to Freewheel. At Beeswax, I built the engineering team and helped architect the real-time bidding systems that handled millions of requests per second on the AWS cloud. In my pre-startup life, I worked at Google and have many years of experience working on large-scale, high-performance products such as Google Ad Exchange and G…

Career history

  1. Co-Founder CTOJan 2024 to presentOctogen AI
  2. Co-FounderOct 2022 to May 2025Roscoe Labs
  3. Career transitionFeb 2022 to Sep 2022Career Break
  4. SVP of EngineeringJan 2021 to Jan 2022FreeWheel
  5. CoFounder and CTOSep 2014 to Jan 2021BeeswaxIO
  6. Tech Lead and ManagerJul 2011 to Sep 2014Google
  7. Staff Software EngineerJun 2007 to Jun 2011Google

Education

  1. PhD, Embedded Computing Systems2001 - 2007UCLA
  2. B. Tech, Electrical Engineering1997 - 2001Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

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