RAHUL PATIL

 Rahul Patil is from Bengaluru. He did his schooling and engineering there. Later he emigrated to USA. He holds a master's in computer science from Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of Washington. He has over 20 years of experience in enterprise-scale infrastructure, with previous leadership roles at Amazon Web Services (AWS)Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

As of early 2026, the most prominent individual  in technology is Rahul Patil,   the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at AI startup Anthropic, a major AI company. He was appointed at Anthropic  in October 2025 to lead infrastructure and engineering and security.  He is an experienced technology leader based in the US. He was formerly a senior vice president at Oracle and CTO at Stripe. He is recognized for managing massive-scale infrastructure. He has now taken over as CTO at Anthropic,  Formerly the CTO at Stripe, he succeeded co-founder Sam McCandlish, who moved to a new role as Chief Architect to focus on pre-training and large-scale model development. The new CTO at Anthropic, is to oversee product, compute, infrastructure, inference, data science, and security to strengthen Claude's position as an enterprise AI platform. 'Claude' is from Anthropic.

'Claude' derives the name from Claude Shannon, the father of information theory. He had , established in his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication,"  the foundational framework for modern digital technology, defining information as quantifiable, probabilistic, and measurable in "bits." It measures information through entropy (uncertainty) and establishes maximum transmission rates (channel capacity), disregarding semantic meaning for efficient, reliable data encoding. 

It is said that within days of the unveiling of Claude, there had been a substantial reduction in the share value of IT companies.

I was inspired by an article by P. Kishore  in the Malayala Manorama newspaper of 23rdFebruary 2026 in its business folio to write this post. The article tells us how much one could aspire. It has no limit. Especially when you are from India, that too with roots in a village in the Uttara Kannada district in the state of Karnataka. The district is familiar to me as I had worked there for a short period and had been visiting the place frequently later on. Those days development was a distant dream for the people there. To compose this post I have relied on data available in the internet. 

Rahul Patil has set the benchmark high. He is an apt role model for all Indians. He has shown us the way forward. It is for the aspiring to go forth and reach for the stars.