Ajith Joseph

AI and Cloud Principal. I build AI products and the cloud platforms under them.

Twenty years in. I've started two companies and sold one. Today I'm building ThyWord from Jacksonville, Florida.

As intelligence gets cheap, meaning and voice get scarce. I call it the Meaning Economy.

01 Building now

ThyWord

Co-Founder and CEO · 2026

Our app. You share what's on your heart, and ThyWord gives you back a Bible verse and a reflection. Live on iOS and Android since February 2026.

Shepherd

ThyWord · 2026

An AI assistant people can text to reach their church. We built the first version at the Gloo AI Hackathon in October 2026. It's early, and we're talking with churches in Jacksonville.

02 Experiments

Proofs of concept that came out of problems we hit while building ThyWord.

EvalStack

Open source · MIT

A framework for grading AI agent runs. It scores each step, handoff and full trajectory from 0 to 1, and every score comes with a written reason.

ShadowTel

Proof of concept

A pre-merge gate for pull requests.

03 Track record

PerfAgents

Founder · 2020 to 2025

A synthetic monitoring platform. It grew to about 20 people at its peak, and Testing Mavens acquired the platform in April 2025.

Cloud and platform work

2006 to today

I started as a Java developer and moved into DevOps, cloud and now AI. Teams I've built for include Nordstrom, NextEra Energy, L'Oreal, the AAMC, Ameriprise Financial, Travelport and Thomson Reuters.

04 Writing

OpenShift for Developers

O'Reilly · Technical reviewer

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