Anushk Pokharna

Working on AI systems at Marriott. I build products that actually work in production.

About

At Marriott, I lead evals for Bonvoy Conversational Search—handling 15M+ daily queries with agentic workflows and LLM-as-a-Judge frameworks. I care about systems that work end-to-end: from LangGraph orchestration to React frontends to production infrastructure.

I've shipped voice AI pipelines, async Python backends, and deployed AI into real hotel operations. The common thread: getting from prototype to users. I spend time with operators and founders understanding what actually matters—then building it.

I run hackerhomes in the US and India and work closely with OpenAI angels and founders. Technical deep dives in AI, systems, and human-centered product design drive how I think about building.

Blogs

• Auction Mechanisms and Welfare Optimization in Machine Payment Protocols

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