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title: "Ashish Raj - Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ashish Raj, Engineering @Zepto, prev - upGrad | Expert Codeforces | Knight Leetcode based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and cursor."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/ashish-raj-2/share-image"
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# Ashish Raj on Tal

## Headline

Engineering @Zepto, prev \- upGrad \| Expert Codeforces \| Knight Leetcode

## About

Hi, I’m Ashish 👋 Focused on Building scalable backend systems, exploring AI agents, and occasionally making pixels behave—because why pick just one side of the stack? Worked on payment systems, tax engines, WebRTC infrastructure, and AI\-powered agents\. Currently exploring Agentic AI, Harness Engineering, MCP, and the evolving intersection of software engineering and AI\. SDE @ Zepto \| LNMIIT Jaipur Java • Go • Spring Boot • Agentic AI

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

cursor

kimi

langgraph

mcp

## Work experience

Software Engineer at Zepto, May 2026 \- Present · 3 mo, Bengaluru, Building large\-scale Ads systems and AI\-powered developer platforms at Zepto, spanning ad retrieval, ranking, monetization, and agentic AI solutions that automate the software development lifecycle\.

Software Engineer \- 2 at upGrad, Apr 2026 \- May 2026 · 1 mo, Bengaluru, Owning end\-to\-end engineering for the Learner Experience \(LEX\) team

Software Engineer \- 1 at upGrad, Sep 2024 \- Mar 2026 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Built engineering solutions across Payments & Learner Experience \(LEX\)

SDE Intern at upGrad, Apr 2024 \- Aug 2024 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Technical Content Writing Intern at GeeksforGeeks, Jul 2023 \- Sep 2023 · 3 mos, Authored 20\+ articles on Data Structures & Algorithms, covering advanced topics including Graph Algorithms, Bitmasking, and Dynamic Programming with Bit Manipulation\.

SDE Intern at Stealth Startup, May 2023 \- Jun 2023 · 2 mos, Delhi, India, Introduction to real\-world engineering through building document intelligence systems at an early\-stage stealth startup • Developed an automated OCR pipeline using Python and AWS Textract to streamline data extraction\. • Enhanced recognition accuracy through effective image preprocessing techniques\. • Created scripts to convert raw text into structured formats, improving data workflows\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, The LNM Institute of Information Technology

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