Ayush Garg is Co-Founder and CTO at Portkey, an AI gateway and control plane for production AI systems that processes over 500 billion LLM tokens daily across 125 million requests. He leads the technical vision for a platform trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises and over 24,000 organizations globally.

Ayush previously worked at Pepper Content where he met co-founder Rohit Agarwal, and held engineering roles at PubNinja, MEA Worldwide, and other tech companies. He is based in San Francisco and studied at Delhi Public School Indirapuram.

Ayush co-founded Portkey in January 2023 with extensive experience in product development and go-to-market strategies for AI products built on Large Language Models. The company raised $3M seed funding from Lightspeed in 2023 and $15M Series A from Elevation Capital in February 2026.

Under Ayush's technical leadership, Portkey has grown to manage over $180M in annualized LLM spend and maintains 99.9999% uptime with sub-10 millisecond latency. The platform supports 1,600+ models and provides enterprise-grade governance, observability, and reliability.

Portkey processes over 180 trillion tokens per year and manages $500,000 in daily AI spend for enterprises. The open-source AI Gateway has gained over 10,000 GitHub stars and is recognized for helping organizations scale AI from experimentation to production.