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 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 and he the process he actually uses. The engineering principles a non-technical builder needs to ship real products with AI tools, and keep them shippable.

He teaches Applied AI for Knowledge Work on Maven, a hands-on course where professionals learn to build their own personal Intelligence system with Claude Code.