# Akash Renuka Ashok

> Akash Renuka Ashok is a Melbourne-based AI engineer and the Co-Founder and CTO of PawHealthAI, a pet-care product, specialising in agentic AI, retrieval, AI evaluation and safety guardrails for trust-sensitive domains.

Akash Renuka Ashok is an AI engineer based in Melbourne, Australia. As Co-Founder and CTO of PawHealthAI he takes LLM systems from problem scoping through architecture, guardrails, evaluation, deployment and post-launch ownership. He is its sole product-design and technical owner. PawHealthAI has 189 registered users as of October 2026, primarily in Australia; registrations do not measure active usage.

He also works as an AI Compliance Officer in AI solutions engineering at Zipline.io, where he is the technical counterpart to 6+ enterprise aged-care customers and has tuned an AI document-analysis system across 1,000+ compliance documents. Previously he built AI automation for finance and document workflows at Kodora.ai, and he mentors postgraduate software engineering teams at the University of Melbourne.

His work centres on agentic workflows, retrieval and context assembly, AI evaluation, non-diagnostic safety guardrails and product design for AI in domains where users need to trust the answer.

## About
- [About Akash Renuka Ashok](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/about/): bio, roles, values, expertise and tools
- [Experience](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/experience/): full work history
- [FAQ](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/faq/): short, quotable answers about Akash Renuka Ashok and PawHealthAI
- [Contact](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/contact/): email akashrashok@gmail.com, LinkedIn, GitHub
- [Resume (PDF)](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/akash-renuka-ashok-resume.pdf)

## PawHealthAI
- [PawHealthAI](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/pawhealthai/): PawHealthAI is a pet-care app that helps pet owners organise care and explore next steps through Evie, an AI assistant offering conversational guidance, structured symptom triage, weekly wellbeing check-ins, reminders and health records. It gives non-diagnostic guidance and does not replace a veterinarian.

## Case studies
- [PawHealthAI: product design and engineering](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/casestudy/pawhealthai/): Home-screen redesign, onboarding evolution and reusable React Native components for a pet-care product.
- [Redesigning PawHealthAI after launch](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/casestudy/pawhealthai-redesign/): What users told me about version one, and the simpler app I rebuilt in response for the April 2026 redesign.
- [PawHealthAI onboarding evolution](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/casestudy/pawhealthai-onboarding/): Six steps, then two plus four, then completed-page saving. The decisions, trade-offs and remaining validation.
- [Clinical Quality & Safety Analytics](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/casestudy/clinical-quality-dashboard/): A decision-support dashboard that turns aged care quality, incident and experience data into governance-ready reporting.

## Projects
- [Evie & PawHealthAI Production AI Platform](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/pawhealth/): Pet-care platform building the longitudinal care layer between vet visits, combining conversational AI, structured triage, weekly check-ins, reminders and a persistent pet record.
- [Clinical Quality & Safety Analytics](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/clinical-quality-dashboard/): A Power BI decision-support dashboard that turns quality indicators, clinical incidents, SIRS notifications, consumer experience and workforce data across twelve residential aged care homes into governance-ready reporting.
- [Construction Data Onboarding Workbench](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/construction-onboarding-workbench/): An internal delivery tool for construction data migration: messy customer CSV in, canonical Company, Worker and Certification entities out, with a mandatory human approval gate before anything is exported.
- [Transaction Monitoring Alert Triage](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/transaction-monitoring-triage/): An AML alert triage pipeline prototype: deterministic typology rules raise alerts, a scikit-learn layer ranks them, and a mandatory analyst disposition gate records every decision.
- [ArkLens: Development Finance Review Assistant](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/arklens/): A development-finance review assistant built as a working prototype for real-estate lending teams, separating deterministic calculation from AI-generated narrative.
- [United States Consumer Research Analysis](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/us-consumer-research/): Analysis of a 325-response US consumer study, translated into product, positioning and go-to-market direction.
- [Production Instrumentation & Activation Audit](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/instrumentation-audit/): A diagnostic review of a live product's measurement layer that reversed the team's roadmap priorities.
- [Evie v3 Knowledge & Retrieval Architecture](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/evie-v3-architecture/): A phased plan and audit that replaces hardcoded AI knowledge and single-purpose retrieval with governed, reviewable infrastructure.
- [Azure Agent Runtime & Evaluation Platform](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/azure-agent-runtime/): A prototype modular runtime for orchestrating tool-enabled AI agents with controlled context, execution tracing, evaluation and API integration.
- [AI Financial Auditor & Cost Control Tool](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/financial-auditor/): AI-powered prototype for analyzing financial transactions and invoices to detect anomalies and improve spending control.
- [Daily Operations Briefing Tool](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/ops-briefing-tool/): Prototype operational intelligence system that converts raw booking and staffing data into structured daily briefings for non-technical business users.
- [AI Content Workflow Assistant](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/ai-content-workflow/): A prototype workflow assistant for content and media teams that automates summaries, briefs and reporting while preserving editorial review.
- [n8n Program Operations Dashboard](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/n8n-ops-dashboard/): A prototype automation workflow that ingests operational data and APIs, converts messy inputs into structured outputs and triggers internal follow-up.
- [UiPath Invoice Approval Workflow](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/uipath-invoice/): An invoice-processing workflow that watches a Google Drive folder, extracts invoice fields and routes documents through automated or human-reviewed decisions.
- [Enterprise AI Evaluation Framework](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/enterprise-ai-evaluation/): A prototype evaluation harness for generative AI systems focused on repeatability, failure analysis and regression prevention.
- [Internal AI Operations Workspace](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/war-room/): An internal workspace used to organise product decisions, requirements, user feedback, technical context, tasks and AI-assisted workflows.
- [Guidly: AI Homework Feedback System](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/guidly/): A privacy-conscious, open-source educational feedback system designed to identify misconceptions and support formative learning rather than a binary grade.
- [Autonomous Driving with PID Control](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/autonomous-driving-pid/): A control-system project in which a simulated vehicle followed cones, maintained a lane, performed lane changes and navigated increasingly complex roads.
- [AI Failure Casebook for Postgraduate Teaching](https://www.akashrenukaashok.com/projects/ai-failure-casebook/): A curated collection of real AI failure examples intended to help students understand uncertainty, bias, overconfidence and responsible deployment.

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