---
title: "Tejas Kumar"
category: "people"
role: "AI Engineer"
company: "IBM"
linkedin: "https://linkedin.com/in/tejasq"
twitter: "https://x.com/tejaskumar_"
website: "https://tejaskumar.com"
blog: "https://tej.as/blog"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Tejas Kumar

## Profile
AI Engineer at [[ibm|IBM]].

- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/tejasq)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/tejaskumar_)
- [Website](https://tejaskumar.com)
- [Blog](https://tej.as/blog)

## Biography
Tejas Kumar is an international keynote speaker, best selling author, and host of the developer-loved ConTejas Code podcast with an engineering background spanning 25 years, from design to frontend to backend to devops. Today, Tejas shares talks at large with developer communities worldwide, equipping them to do their best work.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-tejas-kumar-evals-in-ai-a-deep-dive]] — Evals in AI: A Deep Dive (2026-06-29, 12:10pm-1:10pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-tejas-kumar-evals-in-ai-a-deep-dive|Evals in AI: A Deep Dive]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-C_GG5g38vLU` — 8 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-C_GG5g38vLU`: model, engineering, future, console, stories, tool, registry, story.
- Evidence links for `youtube-C_GG5g38vLU`: [[youtube-C_GG5g38vLU]], [[youtube-C_GG5g38vLU-slides]], [[youtube-C_GG5g38vLU-dense-slides]], [[youtube-C_GG5g38vLU-reconstructed-slides]]