Ashwin V. Raman is Co-Founder and CTO at Spine AI (YC S23), a pioneering platform enabling human-AI agent collaboration through visual agentic workspaces.

Ashwin studied at the University of Waterloo and built a distinguished engineering career at NVIDIA, Amazon (AWS and Alexa), and Instacart before co-founding Spine AI.

Ashwin holds patents for dynamic language model loading in offline Alexa and for optimizing data streaming performance in AWS Aurora MySQL, reflecting deep technical expertise in AI and cloud infrastructure.

At Instacart, Ashwin played a critical role in bot mitigation and experimentation platforms; at NVIDIA he worked on GPU performance and power optimization, bringing world-class engineering depth to Spine AI.

Spine AI, backed by Y Combinator and investors including Translink Capital and Rebel Fund, has launched Spine Swarm, a multi-agent platform that outperformed Google, Perplexity, and OpenAI on top research benchmarks with a team of just 8 people.