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The Person Behind The Code

About Me

AI Architect. Engineering Leader. Builder of things that actually work at scale.

“I build AI systems that don’t just impress in demos — they hold up under the weight of real users.”

Nine years into building software, I’ve shipped products across fintech, commerce, automotive, and branding — everything from solo co-founder to leading 35-person engineering departments.

Today my focus is the intersection of large language models and production engineering: RAG pipelines that don’t hallucinate, agentic workflows that run reliably, AI products that people actually pay for.

Based in Bangalore. Open to contract, full-time, and advisory engagements. I also run 1:1 mock interview sessions for engineers targeting senior and principal-level roles.

Bangalore, India9+ Years ExperienceEnglish · Hindi

Career Timeline

May 2024 – Present · Netherlands, Europe (Remote)

The Branding Club

Head of Engineering & AI Architect

  • Established and scaled a 20-member cross-functional team (Engineering, QA, DevOps) from zero, driving hiring pipelines, engineering culture, and technical standards.
  • Architected Brandhub — a microservices SaaS platform processing 100,000 read/write ops/second and generating 100,000 SKUs per batch using multiprocessing, multithreaded queuing, and sharding.
  • Designed AI-powered content and SKU generation layer using RAG pipelines and LLM APIs (GPT-4, Claude), cutting manual content effort by 70%.

Dec 2023 – Jun 2024 · Remote

Ceodekho

Co-founder & CTO

  • Built an AI-native SaaS blogging platform using LLM pipelines and agentic content workflows, reducing content production time by 80%.
  • Achieved PageSpeed 99+ on desktop, 90+ on mobile via Next.js SSR, edge caching, and Technical SEO optimisation.
  • Designed multi-tenant architecture with cost-optimised token management strategies for AI content generation at scale.

Nov 2023 – Jun 2024 · Remote

Khaatadekho

Founder

  • Conceptualised and built a mini-Salesforce CRM platform from scratch, owning product research, backend, and frontend architecture end-to-end.
  • Secured 10+ stable clients with average monthly revenue of ₹80,000; integrated AI-assisted lead scoring using LLM APIs, reducing manual CRM data entry by 60%.

Nov 2023 – May 2024 · USA (Remote)

Intellectyx

Technical Lead — AI & SaaS Consultant

  • Led 4 cross-functional teams architecting scalable SaaS products for US-based enterprise clients.
  • Designed a Udemy-style platform with an AI-powered course recommendation engine using vector embeddings, improving learner engagement by 40%.
  • Increased engineering productivity by 35% through AI-assisted development tooling, contributing to $2M in additional client revenue.

May 2022 – Dec 2023 · Bangalore

Turno

Technical Lead — Founding Team

  • Led partnership initiative with Facebook and Google, engineering a dynamic website deployment app that launched 20 tailored landing pages, driving conversions from 1% to 25%.
  • Integrated AI-driven personalisation into the sales funnel using LLM-assisted copy generation, significantly reducing CAC.
  • Built and owned the full-stack Agent App and EWS for internal and field sales teams, overseeing backend, frontend, and DevOps end-to-end.

Sep 2021 – Jun 2022 · Bangalore

Wizcommerce

Senior Software Engineer — Founding Team

  • Built an onboarding automation tool that compressed customer onboarding from 10 days to 1 day.
  • Led a 3–4 member team to build Sourcewiz's Customer App from scratch across design, frontend, backend, and deployment.

Aug 2019 – Sep 2021 · Bangalore

Tally Solutions

Software Development Engineer I & II

  • Authored code design for TallyPrime 1.x and GST web components; developed UI and backend APIs independently from architecture through production.
  • Led R&D on integrating WhatsApp and Payment Gateway with Tally — an early conversational automation initiative.

Jan 2017 – Mar 2020 · Bangalore

PixelAI.in

Co-founder

  • Co-founded an AI & software consultancy delivering 10+ SaaS products for Indian and US-based clients, specialising in digital performance and operational efficiency.

Recognition

Turno  ·  2022

Best Performer (Engineering) ×2

Recognised twice in the same year (Sep & Mar 2022) for engineering excellence and team impact.

Tally Solutions  ·  2021

Super Coder

Awarded for outstanding code quality and engineering contributions to TallyPrime.

Tally Solutions  ·  2020–21

Spot Award + Rookie Award

Dual recognition: on-the-spot performance award and best newcomer in engineering.

Google  ·  2018

Google India Challenge Scholarship

Awarded Google India Challenge Scholarship for excellence in computer science.

Science Olympiad Foundation  ·  2012

Int'l Science Olympiad — AIR 38

All India Rank 38 in the International Science Olympiad.

Education

2015 – 2019

B.Tech, Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bangalore

Languages & Communication

EnglishProfessional — C2
HindiNative
KannadaConversational