Ketan Mishra
Head of Engineering at OpenRound; co-founder of Fabric
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| Companies |
| OpenRound, Fabric, Aidetic |
Ketan Mishra is Head of Engineering at OpenRound, an AI-native technical assessment platform, and co-founder of Fabric, the AI recruitment company that built it.1 He joined OpenRound in April 2026, the month the platform publicly launched as part of the Canopy Spring 2026 cohort at Founders, Inc. in San Francisco.16 Before moving to San Francisco, Mishra spent roughly four years as COO of Aidetic, a Bengaluru-based AI consulting firm that put over 200 enterprise AI solutions into production.12
Mishra studied Mining Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) in Dhanbad, graduating with a B.Tech in 2017.1 While at IIT ISM, he edited the Mailer Daemon student newsletter and served as Head Drafting on the ISM chapter of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration.1
After graduating, Mishra joined Wipro as a Data Scientist in Bangalore in August 2017.1 His work there included building a time series forecasting model for a telecommunications client to predict future resource demands across combinations of roles, locations, domains, and project types, implemented end-to-end on Microsoft Azure ML using ARIMA and Exponential Linear Trend algorithms.1 He left Wipro in June 2018.1
Mishra joined Aidetic as COO in March 2020.1 The Aidetic company website also lists him as a co-founder.2 Aidetic was founded in 2018 by Abhishek Agarwalla, initially focused on video analytics.2
During Mishra's time as COO, Aidetic achieved 5x year-over-year revenue growth in 2020 and secured five long-term client partnerships.2 The firm reached $1M in revenue in 2022 while supporting more than 20 active clients across NLP, computer vision, and MLOps.2 The team grew to more than 60 professionals by 2023, and in 2024 Aidetic became a technology partner of both AWS and Databricks.2 By the time Mishra left in February 2024, Aidetic had delivered over 300 AI projects with a 0% project default rate across 50+ clients.2
Mishra described the experience as the origin of Fabric: his recruiting team spent enormous time screening resumes and calling candidates to confirm surface-level details, while the interview panel conducted back-to-back sessions with unqualified candidates — producing a judgment distortion where "a half-qualified candidate starts to feel like a great find."1
Mishra co-founded Fabric in San Francisco in early 2024 alongside Abhishek Agarwalla.14 Fabric is incorporated as Qwertyabcd Labs Private Limited.5 The company's first product is an AI interview platform that automates first-round screening conversations — including live coding challenges, case studies, role plays, and real-time cheating detection — without manual recruiter involvement.54
Fabric raised a $110K angel round in October 2025 from founders and operators across the technology and talent industry.5 Enterprise clients at the time of the announcement included Meesho, CRED, Kearney, and MakeMyTrip.5 By early 2026, Fabric had processed more than 60,000 interviews across hundreds of companies.1
Mishra became Head of Engineering at OpenRound when the product publicly launched in April 2026.1 OpenRound is a technical assessment platform built on Fabric's existing recruitment infrastructure; it evaluates software engineers by having them work on real codebases using the same AI coding tools they use on the job.3
In a March 2026 LinkedIn post, Mishra described using OpenRound to hire 16 engineers in five days for a Series A company whose founder wanted to hire people who "can ship with Claude Code."8 Mishra framed the product rationale: "Claude Code already writes 80% of the code, so no one wants to hire people who just write syntax."8 He noted that OpenRound runs on Fabric's infrastructure — including rubrics, scoring, and cheating detection — already in use at clients including Meesho, Kearney, CRED, Skydo, Aays, and Trigent Software.8
In a separate LinkedIn post, Mishra opened 30-minute slots for engineering leaders and recruiters to try OpenRound Interviews, describing the format as having candidates work inside a real coding environment with the AI tools they use daily rather than solving LeetCode-style algorithmic exercises.7
OpenRound joined the Canopy Spring 2026 cohort at Founders, Inc. at Fort Mason in San Francisco in April 2026.6 The Canopy program accepts teams across software, hardware, and media tracks; top teams receive up to $250,000 in funding and $500,000 in partner credits.6