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Aishwarya & Kiriti

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Aishwarya & Kiriti will make you a problem-first AI builder

Aishwarya Naresh Reganti is the founder and CEO of LevelUp Labs, a human-first AI startup that helps develop and deploy production-ready generative AI solutions for mid to large enterprise clients. With over 9 years of experience in machine learning, she has published more than 35 research papers at top-tier AI conferences, including NeurIPS, AAAI, and CVPR.

Kiriti Badam is a member of the technical staff at OpenAI Codex, with over a decade of experience designing high-impact enterprise AI systems. He specializes in AI-centric infrastructure, with deep expertise in large-scale compute, data engineering, and storage systems.

Worked/Taught At
MIT
University of Oxford
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft

Alumni reviews

Building Agentic AI Applications with a Problem-First Approach

This is an incredibly organised and thoughtfully designed course that is even more engaging than many in-person courses I've taken in university. Aish's passion for teaching comes across clearly, and her passion for the topic is infectious!
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Tarah

April 2026 Cohort
Staff UX Researcher · Pleo

Building Agentic AI Applications with a Problem-First Approach

Amazing course, very in depth and informative about AI, not only I learned on the technical side, but also from the strategy, and high level side, extremely relevant and applicable today.
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Jorge

April 2026 Cohort
AI Software Engineer · Marisa Peer

Building Agentic AI Applications with a Problem-First Approach

I recently completed "Building Agentic AI Applications with a Problem-First Approach" and found the course material to be exceptionally well-structured and current. Aishwarya and Kiriti delivered the content with remarkable clarity and depth, supported by seamless program coordination throughout. The capstone project was thoughtfully designed to consolidate learning and apply concepts in a practical, meaningful way — a highly recommended course for practitioners in this space.
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Sankar

April 2026 Cohort
Product Owner · Prophecy Consulting

Building Agentic AI Applications with a Problem-First Approach

Coming into this course I expected another techniques workshop. Instead, this course taught me system design. The problem-first methodology is the key insight: start with the problem, not the tool. That shift— to "what architecture solves this?"—is what made it valuable. Aishwariya and Kiriti deliver substance. —no overselling, just grounded concepts that stick. The Maven cohort model works because of their flipped classroom approach. One month is tight but efficient. Finishing this course is a real confidense booster in this AI noise.

Franco

April 2026 Cohort
SVP · Citi

Building Agentic AI Applications with a Problem-First Approach

I worked on building a chat assistant, using azure Foundry, which connects to different data sources in my office, and expose the data (uploads) safely and securely to the LLM models in the foundry, and then we can retrieve whatever data and the way we want, from those documents.. All this i did, without writing any code for myself, i just did it using one of the models out there, but.. after attending this course, i could understand how each API's are structured and called, how each methods/functions can be written on our own.. that boosts the confidence.. Thank you team!
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Yogi

April 2026 Cohort
Freelancer · Freelancer