Ashutosh has an integrated Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science degree from IIT Kharagpur in Exploration Geophysics and a postgraduation certificate from Plaksha Tech Leaders Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence. He was an AI Intern at Virtuous AI, an Ethical AI-based startup, where he worked on extracting information on morality from text data based on Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. He was CEO of Farminvesta Pvt Ltd, Kolkata, an Agriculture based Social Startup which served around 6,000 farmers in India for groundwater exploration with high-resolution surveys. He was one of the first entrepreneurs to work on the concept of online agriculture in India with the help of precision farming techniques. He was BDM India, Zoeasy LLC, Dubai, a Blue Collar Recruitment Startup. He led the business development team to develop strategies for ethical overseas placement, helped bring 65,000 blue-collar job applicants onboard, worked with the Andhra and Telangana Government to get an MOU signed which helped Zoeasy get recognized in the Forbes 50 startups to watch in the Arab world list. He is one of the 90 participants selected from all across the world for a 12-day Antarctic Expedition hosted by polar explorer Robert Swan, 2041 ClimateForce to be held in March 2022. He is also a GPODS (Global Policy, Diplomacy, and Sustainability) fellow.