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engineering @ tal by grapevine | the reason tal didn’t crash today | cs’26

About

completed computer engineering in 2026. i joined grapevine as an intern while finishing my degree, got into production code early and stayed on after graduating in 2026. along the way, i helped ship readyai and tal jobs. together, they reached 300k users in roughly six months. now i work on tal boss, where bosses can find and talk to candidates directly. most of my work is on the front end, across tal’s expo app and grapevine web. i build the flows, the screens, and the pixels you only notice when they’re wrong. i step into the backend when a feature needs it. i like seeing the whole thing through: figuring out what to make, building it with the team, shipping it, and finding out what we missed.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Member of Technical Staff at Tal: the app where bosses hire directly, May 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Bengaluru, tal boss: helping build the expo app where bosses find candidates and talk to them directly. with a small team, i've worked across its core experience: onboarding, candidate discovery, profiles, reachouts and chat. a lot of the work is making those separate screens feel like one product. i also work on grapevine web. i've helped with the less visible parts of shipping too, from integrations to upgrading the older grapevine app from react native 0.76 to 0.83 when its version blocked play store releases.

SDE Intern at Tal: the app where bosses hire directly, Aug 2025 - May 2026 · 10 mos, Bangalore Urban, i joined as an intern and started on the grapevine app. the first big feature i shipped was a score shown across posts and comments, making contributions feel visible. average comments per post went up around 15 to 20%. readyai: helped build the app around short ai interview calls. you could pick a track, practise for a few minutes, and get feedback on your answers and spoken english. we added ai-versus-ai examples of stronger interviews and a scrollable feed of short interview clips. i also worked on trials and payments through phonepe, plus mixpanel, webengage, branch, linkrunner and sentry. tal jobs: helped build a job search app around a chatbot. people could tell it what kind of work they wanted, talk through their preferences, and get jobs suited to them. with a small team, i worked from onboarding and chat through to the screens for finding and applying for jobs. it reached around 200k users in its first three months.

BE Core at DJ Unicode, Jun 2025 - May 2026 · 1 yr, On-site, i started here as a mentee and eventually joined the core team. by then, my work was less about my own projects and more about keeping the club moving: planning events, mentoring the next group, and bringing in collaborators from outside college.

Software Development Intern at Zenfru AI, Jun 2025 - Jul 2025 · 2 mos, Mumbai, worked on a voice agent for dental clinics that could take after-hours calls and turn them into appointments. i built parts of the backend and two next.js sites as the product moved from an mvp to a pilot with a us clinic.

Software Developer Intern at Miscot Systems Private Limited, Jan 2025 - Feb 2025 · 2 mos, Mumbai, worked on two very different problems: making aadhaar photo uploads smaller, and moving a legacy angularjs app to angular 19. the image work cut file sizes by up to 70%; the migration covered more than 20 components and services.

Full Stack Django Mentor at DJ Unicode, Jul 2024 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr, On-site, mentored six juniors learning django, helping them put what they’d learned into real projects. alongside that, i helped build booknest with a small team and ran a git/github session for students starting to collaborate on code.

QA Assurance and Test Automation Intern at Intermind Digital | Digital Agency | Since 1999, Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 · 4 mos, Mumbai, built two internal tools for the qa team: a selenium regression suite for repeatable checks, and a dashboard that brought test runs, coverage, and open bugs into one place. the work was about making it easier to see what broke and what still needed fixing.

Full Stack Django Mentee at DJ Unicode, Sep 2023 - Jul 2024 · 11 mos, Mumbai

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering, Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering

Junior College, Pace Junior Science College