# Fractional CTO CV - Vidhatanand V.

Founder experience, technical leadership, AI systems architecture, hands-on engineering, ventures, and selected systems work.

- **Canonical URL:** https://vidhata.me/cv
- **Author:** Vidhatanand V. (Vid)
- **Role:** Fractional CTO and AI Systems Architect

## Executive profile

Hands-on fractional AI CTO, systems architect, founder, and operator who helps founder-led teams turn an ambiguous AI opportunity or fragile prototype into a trustworthy, production-shaped product. Works across product strategy, architecture, data, agents, evaluation, durable workflows, privacy, cost, reliability, and critical implementation.

## Founder value

- Owns technical truth across product, AI, architecture, delivery risk, and engineering direction.
- Tests senior decisions through code, prototypes, evaluations, and operating evidence.
- Designs deterministic safeguards around probabilistic systems, with provenance and human control.
- Builds resumable workflows, replaceable model layers, and capability-first product foundations.
- Translates technical decisions for founders, teams, clients, and investors without hiding uncertainty.

## Career and ventures

### Oblique Path - Founder

**Period:** 2026 - Present | **Location:** New Delhi, India

Building a shopfloor-first industrial AI venture under Fragmatic Technologies for manufacturing companies.

- AI-driven, space-aware systems that connect plant lines end to end across quality, production, maintenance, safety, and traceability.
- Product stack spans X-Spect Vision, X-Sense real-time location and sensing, X-Trace QR, X-Spine factory data infrastructure, and X-Labs delivery.
- Architecture emphasizes edge and on-prem inference, open protocols, operator workflows, measurable KPIs, and scale without vendor lock-in.

### Fragmatic - Founder and CEO

**Period:** Sep 2025 - Present | **Location:** New Delhi, India

Building an AI-native B2B personalization and marketing-intelligence platform.

- Developing topic-first analytics, arrival intelligence, and an AI memory trust layer with source, status, type, confidence, and trust.
- Combining real-time data, orchestration, product workflows, analytics, human review, and operator controls.
- Owns product direction, AI strategy, architecture, technical decisions, and hands-on development.

### Independent - Fractional AI CTO and Systems Architect

**Period:** Sep 2024 - Present | **Location:** Gurugram, India | Hybrid

Senior technical ownership for founder-led teams building, auditing, or rescuing AI products.

- Leads AI strategy, architecture, build-versus-buy decisions, context, memory, evaluation, durable workflows, provenance, and human-control design.
- Advises on cost, privacy, security, reliability, critical implementation, and team or vendor direction.
- Engagements include ongoing fractional leadership, focused prototypes, reliability audits, product rescue, and technical diligence.

### OpenSense Labs - Business Mentor

**Period:** Feb 2022 - Jul 2024 | **Location:** India

Advised the business after completing the CEO operating role.

### Edredo - Growth and Marketing Advisor

**Period:** Feb 2022 - Mar 2024 | **Location:** India

Part-time product-growth and marketing advisory for an education venture.

### OpenSense Labs - CEO

**Period:** Feb 2016 - Feb 2022 | **Location:** Greater Delhi Area, India

Led an open-source and product-engineering company serving complex enterprise programs.

- Grew the team to 100 people across two delivery centers.
- Worked with large organizations including AES, Allianz, MMGY Global, Farm Journal, and TUV-SUD.
- Built around Drupal and JavaScript delivery, technical consulting, product engineering, and enterprise open source.

### VocabMonk - Founder

**Period:** Dec 2012 - Sep 2016 | **Location:** India

Created a personalized vocabulary-learning product using adaptive learning, analytics, and gamified practice.

- An early 0-to-1 product journey that shaped later thinking about learning loops, product evidence, and founder discipline.

## Full CV

[Download the PDF CV](https://vidhata.me/assets/documents/vidhatanand-v-cv.pdf)

## Work with Vid

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