Sash Mohapatra

Sash Mohapatra

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20 years at Microsoft, engineer to Director of Data & AI Sales, Capital Markets

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Sash Mohapatra will transform you into a systems thinker

Sash Mohapatra spent 20 years at Microsoft, moving from customer engineering to Director of AI Sales. He led cloud and ML adoption for Fortune 500 clients. After being laid off in 2023, he used AI to navigate his own career transition and built a system for doing it well.

Now he runs riftlab.ai, where consults for companies on AI adoption - training teams, building agents and helping leaders navigate the AI revolution.

He believes that human ingenuity in the AI revolution can be preserved and scaled through participation. Lean in, learn how to orchestrate AI, be the human in the loop and amplify your leverage and capabilities with AI.

Previously at Microsoft
Microsoft
riftlab.ai

Alumni reviews

You will be able to get such course everywhere across all the platform but but but......mind it here..... Selecting a good tutor is the most important factor to get your thinking into your brain. Sash is too good and he knows how to pass on his learnings to a non techie guy like me.
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Partha

Cohort 3 - APAC & IST
Building Control Officer · Timaru District Council
Sash Mohaptra's session of AI Orchestration for Knowledge Workers delivered exactly what it promised: frameworks I could use the same day, not just theory. The Orchestrator Method gave me a concrete process for delegating to AI instead of guessing at prompts. The AIM framework (Ask with purpose, Include details, Modify and refine) is now how I structure every non-trivial prompt. And the walk through of context windows, token limits, and the "lost in the middle" problem explained behavior I'd noticed in long AI chats but never understood. He backed every concept with real examples — the news classification agent, the article ranking system, the model selection trade offs between Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku. That made it concrete instead of abstract. The examples we went over were more realistic of the issues we face everyday and the idea to work on a self project/skill was more to the point. It helped me know where I was missing and how I could correct it with your guidance. I would highly recommend anyone who wants to put AI to use to attend the session. Rohinton

Ronnie

Cohort 3 - APAC & IST
Support Manager · Microsoft
Great Learning....very personalized handholding, awesome resources to follow through
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Rajesh

Cohort 3 - APAC & IST
Fractional CMO · Multiple
As a "newbie" to Agentic AI, Sash helped provide a clear understanding of how AI works behind the scenes, why context is important, why having a clear goal of what you're building is important and constant validating is a step not to miss. Although it was a short course, the insights gained are valuable and I look forward to building skills and workflows via Claude.
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Sidney

Cohort 3 - SGT
APJ Sales Enablement · Broadcom
Fantastic and rapid way to learn around agentic AI, and apply to practical situations. Sash has a wealth of knowledge and the course really accelerated my knowledge, and I fear has led me further down the rabbit hole of AI :) Course very rapid paced but a great way to get practical experience in only a couple of weeks. Highly recommend!
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Josh

Cohort 3 - SGT
Head of Advisory · Broadcom