Ashish Kumar is Senior Vice President and Technical Fellow at MongoDB, where he focuses on architectural improvements across the product stack. He joined MongoDB through the acquisition of Grainite, a database startup he co-founded, following a career at Google where he led work across Bigtable, Spanner, Datastore, and Firestore. His expertise is in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise AI infrastructure.
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Beyond the Database: Building the Context Layer for Enterprise AI with MongoDB
In this conversation, the evolving role of enterprise data platforms in the AI era takes center stage as Jason Andersen sits down with Ashish Kumar to explore why context has become the foundation for reliable AI agents. The discussion examines how enterprise data architecture is evolving beyond traditional databases to support memory, state, and context, and what organizations should prioritize as they move AI applications from experimentation into production.
