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title: "Hitesh Nankani - SDE-III (AI & Engineering) in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Hitesh Nankani, Senior Software Engineer (AI & Engineering) @Mindtickle | Built 40+ production AI features + a product line at ~24% of ARR | LLMOps · RAG · Agentic AI · Microservices at 200x scale | Forward-Deployed AI | Ex-Myntra based in Greater Bengaluru Area."
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# Hitesh Nankani on Tal

## Headline

Senior Software Engineer \(AI & Engineering\) @Mindtickle \| Built 40\+ production AI features \+ a product line at \~24% of ARR \| LLMOps · RAG · Agentic AI · Microservices at 200x scale \| Forward\-Deployed AI \| Ex\-Myntra

## About

AI & Engineering Expert \| Problem Solver \| Building Scalable Solutions with AI Agents, RAG, Microservices, & Serverless Architectures\. Proven track record in developing innovative AI role\-plays at Mindtickle\. Passionate about leveraging AI & robust engineering across all product domains\. Balanced by dedication to volunteer initiatives supporting mental health and peaceful living\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## Work experience

SDE\-III \(AI & Engineering\) at Mindtickle, Jan 2026 \- Present · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban · Hybrid, LLMOps & AI Infrastructure \-> Sole Owner, Org\-wide \- Architected the end\-to\-end LLM\-Ops platform: model deployment pipelines, evaluation frameworks \(automated quality scoring, regression detection\), prompt versioning, cost/latency monitoring, and data processing workflows \- delivered in 2 weeks after inheriting a stalled 8\-month effort\. AI Adoption Across Products \- Identified AI opportunities across multiple products and drove integration end\-to\-end — increasing adoption by up to 8000% in key offerings; led company\-wide AI Knowledge Sharing sessions\. \- Driving requirements gathering, vendor evaluation, POCs, and production integration for all AI features company\-wide — standardised model selection criteria, evaluation benchmarks, and rollout procedures\.

Senior Developer \(AI & Engineering\) at Mindtickle, Jul 2022 \- Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore Urban · Hybrid, \- Missions Platform — Lead Engineer \| 10\+ Microservices, 30\+ Features, 3→30 Team Growth \- Built a hackathon prototype \(Voice AI Assistant\) that became a primary product generating $12M\+ ARR \- architected the GenAI pipeline \(prompt chains, context management, response evaluation\)\. \- Shipped an AI chat system for Voice Agent creation \(20\+ prompt configurations\) in 1 month\. \- Introduced AI Reviews \(AI as a platform reviewer\) \- increased product usage by 2100%, 15x revenue growth, 21x usage growth\. \- Led engineering across 10\+ microservices; reduced API latency by 10\-40x; grew team from 3 to 30 engineers\.

Senior Software Engineer at Myntra, Feb 2022 \- Jun 2022 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Scaled the crawling platform from 100K to 20M\+ pages/day \(200x\) — distributed microservices architecture \(Java, ElasticSearch, Azure, NoSQL\) providing competitive pricing insights impacting $600M\+ in annual revenue\. Reduced on\-call monitoring time by 85% by implementing a real\-time alert system\.

Software Engineer at Myntra, Jul 2019 \- Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Built the Trends service end\-to\-end — an NLP\-powered system predicting future clothing trends, used by merchandising teams for buying decisions\. Contributed to scaling the crawling platform \(see Senior Software Engineer role below for full scope\) — distributed microservices architecture on Java, ElasticSearch, Azure, NoSQL\.

Research Intern at MIDAS: Multimodal Digital Media Analysis Lab, Jan 2018 \- Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos, New Delhi, Research Intern, MIDAS Lab, IIIT\-Delhi — worked on multilingual NLP and discourse analysis under Dr\. Rajiv Ratn Shah\. First\-authored a book chapter on multilingual sentiment analysis \(Springer, 2020\) and co\-authored a paper on Hindi discourse annotation \(LREC 2020\)\. 130\+ citations to date\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

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