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# Deenbandhu Agrawal on Tal

## Headline

Staff Software Engineer at Zluri

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

## Work experience

Staff Software Engineer at Zluri, Apr 2026 \- Present · 5 mos, Bangalore

Engineering Manager at Zluri, May 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager at Hevo Data, May 2023 \- May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Leading the team which is working on Optimising the ETL pipelines

Engineering Manager at Unacademy, Nov 2021 \- Mar 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, 1\. High Impact team: Created high impact team with new joiners who are having zero context of the product and tech in the company\. 2\. Unacademy as Marketplace: Launched a product within 4 weeks which enabled unacademy as marketplace for the educators \(Product was able to generate revenue of 2\.5 Cr in 2 months of launch\) 3\. Stablisied Release Process: Shifted the release process from late night to day time which resulted in \- better work life balance of team\. \- Better post deployment monitoring\. \- Distributed Responsibility\. 3\. Efficient Process: Changing Process for better efficiency and predictability\. 4\. Data Observability: Introduced observability around data\-pipelines and data distribution\. Making data platform more stable\. 5\. Keeping the bar high: Highly involved in the design reviews and making sure we are keeping the tech excellency bar high for better quality\. 6\. Cost Optimization: Optimised cost of Data Engineering from 2,00,000$ monthly to 80,000$ monthly

Vice President of Engineering at SwifLearn, Mar 2020 \- Nov 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, 1\. High\-Quality User Facing Product: Created product from scratch having features \- Inhouse implemented multiway video conferencing UI \- Optimised for SEO\. Page scores 90\+, Dynamic SEO tags \- User progress management system on the product itself 2\. Feature Rich in\-house tools: Highly functional in\-house product for various teams \- Complete Lead Management System with Lead funnel summary for the managers and other stakeholders \- Ablility to solve complex Ops problems like creating 200 classes in one go, and shifting 100 of classes by a day through one click\. \- Content management system \- Central repository for all the content used 3\. Team Building: Hired 15 people across tech, product, design, and analytics

Software Engineer at Limeroad\.com, Dec 2017 \- Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, 1\. Aerospike Ruby Client: Implemented a feature\(batch\_index\) in the aerospike ruby client \(as needed by us\)\. The code is merged and i am accepted as a contributor in the repository\. Solr major upgrade: Upgraded solr from version 4\.4 to 6\.6 without zero downtime and full consistency 2\. Athena Query Interface: Created Interface for querying Athena enabled data limit and user access on Athena using that interface\. 3\. Stabilized website autoscaling: Identified and Resolved various bugs in website autoscaling which resulted in lower infra cost by 40%\. 4\. Reports DAG creation interface: Created interface which can be used by analytics team for creating dependent reports using DAG \(Directed Acyclic Graph\)\. The DAG is scheduled in Airflow at the backend\. 5\. Cost Optimization: Optimised cost from 1,40,000$ monthly to 80,000$ monthly 6\. Spot Management Tool: Created a Tool in django to manage the spot instances optimized for cost and stability\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur

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