Who We Are
LasaAI was founded by enterprise software veterans who saw GenAI's potential—and its pitfalls. While others rushed to apply old patterns to new technology, we took a first-principles approach: GenAI requires fundamentally different thinking due to its non-deterministic nature.
We built the LasaAI platform by combining decades of enterprise reliability lessons with fresh thinking about how AI systems actually need to work.
Meet the Founders
Rafi Dudekula
Founder & CEO
Over twenty years building mission-critical systems. Former Application Architect at Microsoft.
Engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur and MBA from SMU Cox fuel a career of serial entrepreneurship. As CEO and chief architect, he remains hands-on—still coding alongside the team to create a platform that makes AI as reliable as the enterprise systems companies depend on.
LinkedIn ProfileWaheeda Dudekula
Co-Founder & COO
Twenty years in enterprise software. Former SharePoint Solutions Architect with a career-defining lesson: the best technology is the one people actually use. At LasaAI, she leads solution delivery, bridging ground-level user problems with high-level technical solutions.
B.S. Software Engineering, pursuing MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Development Policy from MIT.
LinkedIn ProfileOur Approach
First-Principles Thinking for AI
Together, Rafi and Waheeda bring 40+ years combined experience as architects and engineers building systems that ship and scale. When GenAI emerged, they recognized it demanded different thinking—traditional software patterns don't translate directly.
Authors of Engineering Reliable AI Agents & Workflows (December 2025), they share practical frameworks developed from building the LasaAI platform and deploying solutions for organizations.
Our Philosophy
Workflow-First, Not Technology-First
Most AI projects fail because they start with the technology instead of understanding the actual work. We help identify the right problems before jumping to solutions.
Crawl, Walk, Run
Ship small, prove value, scale deliberately. Perfect demos don't matter—incremental production deployments do.
Evaluation From Day One
You can't improve what you don't measure. Build evaluation into workflows from the start, not as an afterthought.
Augment Teams, Don't Disrupt Them
The best AI solutions enhance human capabilities rather than trying to replace them entirely.
Why LasaAI?
We built the LasaAI platform from scratch, applying decades of enterprise software lessons while rethinking what's different about GenAI. It's the deployment engine we engineered by learning what works through our own implementations.
Now we help organizations apply these lessons through private workshops, strategic advisory, and rapid deployment on our platform.
Ready to Work Together?
Let's discuss how we can help your organization ship reliable AI agents.