About
A small team, deep in the hard parts of AI.
OpScaler is a small, senior AI studio, founded in the US by Karthik Sethupathy. We're not a generic dev shop that added an AI page — our edge is depth in the hard disciplines: fine-tuning open-weight models to frontier parity, independent evals, AI safety, sovereign on-prem inference, and governance for regulated work.
We build directly with founders and small teams. No account managers, no layers of process — just senior engineers who own the model, prove the quality with a separate judge, and ship it into money-on-the-line reality. When we ship, it stays shipped.
Team
Founded by an operator
Karthik Sethupathy
Founder
Over twenty years running production SaaS infrastructure, including a decade as Senior Director of Technical Operations. Built and led global Technical Operations and SRE organizations: multi-region cloud architecture, datacenter-to-cloud migration, disaster recovery, incident response, and the compliance audits regulated customers require. Brings an operator’s discipline to keeping AI systems reliable in production.
Advisors
Advised by a builder
Pavan Tikkani
Technical Advisor
Nearly two decades in global technology. Advises OpScaler on the hard end of AI systems: fine-tuning and distilling open-weight models to frontier parity, LoRA/QLoRA on domain data, and independent multi-judge evals so quality is measured, not asserted. Known for simplifying complex challenges and an unwavering passion for clean, elegant code.
How we think
Our values
Design it
We design frontier-level systems on hardware you control. No per-token bill, no data egress — you own the model and the data.
Prove it
Never ship on vibes. Every claim is checked by a separate judge model — independent evals, not self-grading.
Ship it
Into regulated, money-on-the-line reality — fintech voice payments, life-sciences CMC — not demos. When we ship, it stays shipped.
Stay lean
A small, senior team — the people who design it are the ones who build it. No account managers, no layers of process, no bench to hand you off to. No excess, no compromise.
Move in weeks
Idea to production in about six weeks, then hardened. Fast doesn’t mean sloppy — we write code your next engineer will thank you for.
Slow down to speed up
AI writes code at warp speed. More is generated than ever, and less of it reviewed. So we slow down where it counts — read the code, test the edges, gate it behind a separate judge — because that’s what makes the speed safe to keep.
Keep learning
The frontier moves weekly. We stay current on models, tooling, and technique so your stack stays sharp, not legacy.