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title: "Harsh R. - Head of AI & Engineering in India | Tal"
description: "Meet Harsh R., Head of AI & Engineering | IIT Kanpur based in India. AI stack includes aistudio, anthropic apis, and cursor. Explore public work links including github and har.sh10.in."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/harsh-rajput/share-image"
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# Harsh R\. on Tal

## Headline

Head of AI & Engineering \| IIT Kanpur

## About

Software engineer with experience across government\-scale identity systems \(UIDAI/Aadhaar\), telecom infrastructure \(Exotel\), and founding an AI product from scratch \(AIastro\.talk\)\. IIT Kanpur graduate\. Comfortable owning problems end\-to\-end, from backend architecture to shipping AI features to production\. Currently looking for SDE2/AI Engineer opportunities where I can apply strong fundamentals in data structures, distributed systems, and applied AI\.

## Location

India

## AI stack

aistudio

anthropic apis

cursor

gemini

langgraph

opencode

## Work experience

Head of AI & Engineering at AIastro\.talk, Oct 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Delhi, India, \- Designed and shipped a full\-stack AI SaaS platform solo, streaming chat and reports across 200\+ routes, powered by a 100\+ module AI orchestration layer with bilingual \(EN/HI\) intent routing\. \- Built a 3\-provider LLM fallback system \(Vercel AI Gateway, Gemini, Groq\) with automatic failover and full observability for production reliability\. \- Developed a RAG\-powered knowledge retrieval system and async pipeline generating structured PDF reports via LLM, with guardrails to block off\-topic requests\. \- Launched usage\-based billing and payments \(Razorpay\) with tiered access and full audit logging\.

Career transition at AIastro\.talk, Sep 2025 \- Oct 2025 · 2 mos, After a period of deliberation, I took the leap to build my own product and company from the ground up\.

Member of Technical Staff \- 1 at Exotel Techcom, Feb 2025 \- Aug 2025 · 7 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, \- Cut new\-engineer onboarding time 96% \(4 weeks → 1 day\) by unifying 11 microservices into one Dockerized dev/QA environment \- Scaled real\-time AI call classification from 5K to 10K\+ calls/minute while cutting latency 40% and infra cost 15% \- Rebuilt the disaster\-recovery pipeline \(PostgreSQL, AWS Athena, Elasticsearch\), reducing recovery time from 5 days to 30 minutes

Software Engineer at Unique Identification Authority of India \(UIDAI\), Jul 2023 \- Jan 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Built a fraud\-detection microservice processing 1,500\+ biometric scans/minute, optimizing MySQL indexing for sub\-50ms latency \- Designed a fault\-tolerant, HSM\-encrypted biometric pipeline \(AWS S3 \+ Redis\) with 80%\+ test coverage \- Automated 85% of biometric deduplication using an event\-driven Kafka architecture for real\-time fraud detection \- Built an Operator Intervention Portal \(React\) visualizing 10\+ KPIs, cutting manual workload 75%

Teaching Assistant at Coding Ninjas, Jun 2021 \- Oct 2021 · 5 mos, \- Taught a C\+\+ Data Structures & Algorithms curriculum \(recursion, graph theory, complexity analysis\) to 16 students \- Resolved 500\+ technical queries through code reviews and debugging support, maintaining a 4\.8/5 average rating

## Education

Bachelor of Technology, Biotechnology, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/harxhist
- har\.sh10\.in: https://har\.sh10\.in/

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