About ThinkXL

Why we exist?

AI is probabilistic by nature. Building a business on it means building systems that make it reliable, observable, and cost-predictable. That’s the gap ThinkXL is built to close.

Our Philosophy

At ThinkXL, we value expertise. Not the abstract, subjective kind, but the kind verified through industry certifications and real deployments. Every engineer at ThinkXL has deployed workloads on AWS, holds active certifications, and has access to the best AI tools available.

We treat cloud architecture and DevOps automation as a craft and spend significant time perfecting it. We stand by every deployment we have made and take pride in efficient, optimized architectures.

We strongly believe that architecture done correctly once is a significant asset that keeps on giving. A bad deployment, on the other hand, becomes a perpetual cycle of patching and firefighting, wasting resources that should be going toward growth.

Founder — Pratik Kulkarni

Pratik has spent a decade specializing in AWS infrastructure and cloud economics, delivering projects across startups and mid-size companies. He holds AWS Solutions Architect Professional and FinOps certifications.

Over the last few years, he has focused that expertise on deploying AI apps on Cloud. He also runs ThotStack, an AI product deployed on AWS, putting him in the same position as his clients.

He started ThinkXL to help teams build a strong foundation on cloud for their AI deployments. He strongly believes that well-architected infrastructure with visibility into unit economics gives startups the ultimate edge to outlast their competition.