2x founder
Ayush Shah
Founder & CTO, Axon Labs | a16z Speedrun Scout
Experience
Career
2025Axon Labs
FounderFounder & CTO · London Area, United Kingdom · 2025 – Present
2024Unlikely AI
Senior Engineering Manager & Staff Engineer · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · 2024 – 2025
- 2022
Unlikely AI
Engineering Manager · London, England, United Kingdom · 2022 – 2024
- 2022
Unlikely AI
FounderSenior Software Engineer · 2022
2021PolyAI
Engineering Team Lead · London, England, United Kingdom · 2021 – 2022
- 2020
PolyAI
Software and Machine Learning Engineer · London, England, United Kingdom · 2020 – 2021
2017IBM
Research Engineer · New Delhi Area, India · 2017 – 2019
2016Precog @ IIITD
Researcher · Delhi, India · 2016 – 2017
2017Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
Teaching Assistant | Probability and Statistics · 2017
- 2016
IBM
Research Intern · Bangalore · 2016
- 2015
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
Research Intern · 2015
- 2014
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
Teaching Assistant | Linear Algebra · 2014
Bio
Ayush Shah is a leader in AI with a decade of experience driving breakthroughs in research and applying them to real products at scale. He has worked at IBM Research, PolyAI, and led the Applications department at Unlikely AI. Ayush holds significant patents and publications in AI, reflecting a track record of innovation, and has built products used by millions worldwide. He earned his Master’s degree at the University of Oxford, specialising in advancements that make Deep Reinforcement Learning more tractable for autonomous driving.