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# Team — Meet the minds keeping your releases honest.

The people — and the agents — turning rapid development into reliable production.

## Founders — Operators who have lived this problem.

### Vivek Soneja (Founder · CEO)

San Francisco Bay Area · MS CS, Georgia Tech. 15+ years building mobile, since Android Cupcake (2009). Companies: WhatsApp, Meta, Flipkart, PhonePe.

- Improved WhatsApp’s Android app for billions of users, at Meta
- Founding architect at PhonePe — first commit to 500M+ users
- Built Flipkart’s apps from scratch on the original app team
- Owned the mobile QA pipelines Aucert now automates

### Rajesh Kumar (Founder · CTO)

Bengaluru · University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Holds a US patent for the exact QA problem we’re solving. Companies: PayPal, Multiplier.

- A decade in PayPal’s core payments infrastructure
- Built Multiplier’s 0→1 global payroll across 80+ countries
- Shipped under finance-grade compliance — the policy layer Aucert now encodes
- Leading the shift to AI-driven quality — knows why AI alone isn’t enough

## Why this team

01. **Lived the bottleneck.** Shipped at billions-scale through Apple & Google review — every rejection, hotfix, and 3 AM production fire.
02. **Owned the pipeline.** Built — and patented — the exact QA systems Aucert now automates.
03. **Building the platform.** Watched AI codegen overwhelm that pipeline from the inside. Now building the layer that removes it.

## The agent bench

- **Ember** (Product) — your sharpest PM
- **Genie** (Design) — your pickiest designer
- **Dax** (Security) — your most paranoid reviewer
- **Rio** (Engineering) — your most exacting senior
- **Vera** (Validation) — your tireless full-sweep runner
- **Pax** (Store policy) — knows every Play & App Store rule
- **Cleo** (Compliance) — reads all the fine print
- **Juno** (Performance) — hunts every ANR and jank
- **Iris** (Accessibility) — sees what users can’t
- Your next expert — hired as your product needs it

## Links

- [Home](/index.md)
- [Contact](/contact.md) — contact@aucert.ai
