Pavan Kalyan (a.k.a PK) Tankala

Founder & CEO @ TensorTest (YC W26) | Test and train your agents on real creative jobs

Founder

Ritivel· Winter 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @tpavankalyan23

2025Founder· TensorTest

Founder · since 2025

Company

TensorTest

Role

Founder & CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco, CA

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Ritivel

AI-native platform for Life-Sciences Documentation

Winter 2026

Experience

Career

TensorTest
Founder
Founder & CEO · San Francisco, CA · 2025 – Present
2025
Microsoft
Research Fellow · Banglore · 2024 – 2025
2024
AppTek
Speech synthesis researcher · Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · 2023 – 2024
2023
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Graduate Teaching Assistant · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2023 – 2024
2023
Computation For Indian Language Technology (CFILT) Lab
Graduate Research Assistant · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2023 – 2024
2023
CSALT lab, IIT Bombay
Research Assistant · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2023 – 2024
2023
CSALT lab, IIT Bombay
Undergraduate Research Assistant · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2022 – 2023
2022
Telesoft
NLP-Speech Application Engineer · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2023
2023
Computation For Indian Language Technology (CFILT) Lab
Undergraduate Research Assistant · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2022 – 2023
2022
Bosch Global Software Technologies
Project Trainee · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · 2022
2022
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2020 – 2022
2020
Cuemath
Teacher expert · United States · 2020 – 2022
2020
Techfest, IIT Bombay
Event Coordinator · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · 2020 – 2022
2020
Techfest, IIT Bombay
organiser · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · 2020
2020
Skillshare
Creative Entrepreneur · 2021
2021

Bio

Cofounder and CEO @ Ritivel. Prev. @ Microsoft Research focused on training language models. Graduated from IIT Bombay with Btech + Mtech in Electrical+AI. Published @ Neurips, ACL, Interspeech.