Harshal Gajjar is an AI Forward-Deployed Engineer at C3 AI, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Harshal leads Agentic AI harness development for the Forward-Deployed Engineering organisation at C3 AI, and since January 2026 has been building a stealth-mode startup in the Agentic AI space. Harshal cofounded Shram.io in 2024, where he led the pivot from a Jira-competitor product to an AI assistant that reached #2 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
Harshal holds an M.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning specialisation) from Georgia Tech and a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Dharwad, where he was part of the institute's foundational class. He spent three summers at Wolfram Research in Boston — first as a summer researcher in 2018, then as an instructor for high-school students in 2019 and 2020 — and was a Wolfram Student Ambassador throughout his undergrad.
Outside of work, Harshal is a long-distance cyclist and a vertical and horizontal caver, active with the San Francisco Bay Chapter (SFBC) grotto. In 2019 he was part of the Hubballi Bicycle Club Guinness World Record for the longest single line of bicycles.
Contact Harshal at mail@harshalgajjar.com.
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2 pieces tagged Caving — notes and essays by Harshal Gajjar on this topic, newest first.
back from a TAG weekend. neversink in the rain — 162 ft of free hang, water sheeting down the cliff face the whole descent. nothing else in the week feels…
first trip into Guardian with the SFBC grotto. tight breakdown, then it opens into a room you don't expect from the entrance. cave geometry is the best…