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 he publishes the Rift Dispatch newsletter and consults for companies on AI adoption - training teams, building agents and helping leaders navigate the AI revolution.

He also built Pollzy, an AI-native live polling tool.

He teaches Applied AI for Knowledge Work on Maven, a hands-on course where professionals learn to build AI systems for research, writing, decision-making, and automation. His approach is practical and grounded -systems over tools, building over theorizing.

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