Praxel
praxel.inAI for India's careers
Praxel Learn (Maven for India) and Praxy (Jack & Jill AI for India) — under one roof.
Case studyPushpak Teja
Co-founder, Praxel · AI Builder · Previously Senior PM @ MoEngage
Building AI that empowers humans to be better, not to escape being human.
BITS Pilani (BE)
Georgia Tech (MS CS, ML)
Masters' Union (Founding cohort)
I'm a co-founder at Praxel, building AI products for India. Praxel covers Praxel Learn (Maven for India) and Praxy (Jack & Jill AI for India — connecting candidates and recruiters in a single product). Alongside Praxel, I'm building Thirdwatch.dev (agentic scraping) and Commy.app (AI communication coach).
I'm building what I wish I had. Praxel Learn — Maven for India — comes partly from being in Masters' Union's founding cohort: I've seen what works and what doesn't in Indian higher ed up close.
Previously Senior PM at MoEngage — shipped the company's first MCP server, first Merlin AI agent, and grew the SMS product to $6M ARR in two years. I publish research on Indic TTS and STT — voice for languages foundation models forget — with an MS CS from Georgia Tech specialized in machine learning.
Currently Building
Three products, one thesis: AI that works for India.
Thirdwatch
thirdwatch.devAgentic scraping infrastructure
Apify actors and orchestration for teams that need reliable, agentic web scraping.
Case studyCommy
commy.appAI communication coach
Practice conversations that matter — with feedback that actually helps.
Case studyResearch
Indic TTS and STT for languages historically under-served by foundation models. Voice powers Praxy.
See full researchPraxy Voice: Voice-Prompt Recovery + BUPS for Commercial-Class Indic TTS from a Frozen Non-Indic Base at Zero Commercial-Training-Data Cost
arXiv preprint · cs.SD / cs.CL / eess.AS · 2026
PSP: An Interpretable Per-Dimension Accent Benchmark for Indic Text-to-Speech
arXiv preprint · cs.SD / cs.CL · 2026
Before Praxel
Eight years building AI infra, agentic products, and revenue at scale.
10,000+ Students. 1,000+ Hours.
Teaching SQL for PMs, AI tools for PMs, and how to build AI products. Across Airtribe, Product Space, Upraised, and ADPList.
What I teach
- →SQL for Product Managers
- →AI Tools for PMs (Lovable, Replit, n8n)
- →Building AI Products
- →Product Strategy & Execution
Writing
Thoughts on AI, products, and what it means to be human.
The AI Friend Dilemma: Will We Forget How to Be Human?
Exploring how generative AI impacts human connection.
ReadHow Lunchclub Keeps Its Users Hooked
Product analysis of engagement mechanics.
ReadHuman-Computer Interaction & Productivity Tools
Lessons from HCI applied to modern productivity.
ReadLet's connect
Hiring, advisory, co-founder conversations, or just want to talk shop on AI for India?