Impossible things are possible in India, Anthropic CTO recalls Bengaluru days

Anthropic's Chief Technology Officer Rahul Patil

• Anthropic opens new office in Bengaluru, led by CTO Rahul Patil
• Patil to lead engineering, infrastructure, and security at Anthropic
• Ex-Stripe CTO, also worked at AWS, Oracle, and Azure

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Anthropic‘s Bengaluru-born Chief Technology Officer Rahul Patil reflected on his city days while delivering a keynote after launching the company’s city office, saying impossible things are possible in India.

“Impossible things are possible in India,” Patil said on February 16 after announcing the opening their Bengaluru office.

He added that he studied in Baldwin School, graduating from the city’s St Joseph's University.

“PES University is very very strict,” he added in jest amid laughter from developers and enterprise leaders gathered for the event.

“I also met my wife during first year of engineering,” he added.

Patil holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Bengaluru's PES University, (formerly PES Institute of Technology). He also has a master’s degree in computer science from Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of Washington.

He said that he believed AI to be probably the most transformative things over the next 100 years, which made him venture into the path.

In October, 2025, Anthropic appointed the Indian-origin tech infrastructure veteran as its CTO, at a time when the AI research company is looking to bolster its infrastructure amid intensifying rivalry with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta.

What is Rahul Patil's role?

Patil will lead the company's engineering function, spanning inference, products, infrastructure, and security. He takes over from co-founder Sam McCandlish who is moving to a new role as chief architect.

"AI possibilities seem endless, and it is going to be an extraordinary adventure of discoveries and effort to make these possibilities real. More importantly, it is going to require us to make a conscientious set of decisions every day to safely navigate this massive transformation and ensure that responsible AI wins," Patil said in a post on LinkedIn on October 2, 2025.

From PES to Anthropic

Patil joins Anthropic from fintech giant Stripe where he spent about five and a half years in multiple roles, most recently as CTO, overseeing its engineering and global operations.

He has also had stints at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure.