Shivam Chopra

Work

Engineer and filmmaker. This is the plain version: no scroll tricks, nothing to decode.

2009 to 2012

From 2009 to 2012 he worked as an independent technologist and editor: film and TV edits, educational content and open-source projects, including founding membership of an OSx86 project that ran macOS on ordinary PCs.

Miles Education, 2012 to 2026

In 2012 he joined Miles Education as a founding member, when the whole tech team fit around one table. Twelve people.

As Technical Co-Founder and CTO he left Miles Education in 2026 with a 110-person engineering org across India, the US and the Caribbean. 18+ products. ₹500 Cr+ (~$50M+) in revenue those products helped bring in. A national digital school for the Government of Guyana. Miles Masterclass, a Netflix-style learning OTT on a proprietary streaming engine.

AI and automation, 2020 to 2026

From 2020 he led AI and automation at Miles Education. AI agents took scheduling, payments and follow-ups. Sales efficiency rose 55%, and 70% of manual work across admissions, finance, HR and learner support was automated. Salesforce Future First AI Visionary (2025). Edvocate Leadership Award (2022).

Now: Saaya.ai

He is building Saaya.ai solo: real-time AI you talk to face to face over voice, video and chat, in 20+ Indian languages, built for under 300 ms voice round-trip over WebRTC. The rest of the team is a squad of AI agents.

Saaya.ai

Now: films

The studio is illusionart Studios: human-directed video ads and short films, made with AI. Films for AISATS and Shahrukhz by Danube, and for Saaya.

Films directed by a person, made with AI.

Tell me what you're making

One address, whichever it is: [email protected].