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Hitesh Awasthi

Always Building. Open to What’s Next. | Tech Lead @ Kazam EV

Bengaluru

3+ years of work experience

Kazam
Aug 20251 yr 2 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led architecture and engineering for Kazam’s EV charging ecosystem, impacting over 2M users and 250k+ charge points globally. • Lead a team of 10 engineers across the Kazam B2C app, 50+ white-label applications and the battery swapping platform • Developed a multi-tenant App Factory, reducing new app release time from 30 days to under 30 minutes. • Ensured system reliability with 99.9% uptime, handling over 30k daily transactions.
Kazam
Mar 20256 mosAug 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Rebuilt the entire mobile app and backend, enhancing scalability and performance for over a million users. • Redesigned charger discovery using MongoDB aggregation pipelines and Redis caching, reducing response time from 30–60 seconds to under 1 second and payload size from ~500KB to ~10KB. • Consolidated 30+ client-server API calls into a unified aggregation layer, significantly reducing network overhead and backend load. • Built idempotent payment callback handling across 20+ payment gateways and worked on OCPI roaming for cross-CPO charger discovery and charging. • Helped scale the battery swapping platform from launch to 25k+ swaps per month.
be offline
Jan 202411 mosNov 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed a Mobile app to help users connect based on shared experiences, emotional growth, and hyper-personalized meetups. • Built personalized feeds for users to track connection insights, shared experiences, and emotional growth. • Integrated eKYC verification system to ensure secure connections with verified profiles, eliminating bots and fake accounts. • Implemented AI-driven personality charts and relational insights for personalized profile suggestions. • Created an engaging quiz-based interaction system to foster meaningful conversations between users. • Designed a curated meetup system, allowing users to filter locations based on interests and schedule meetups seamlessly. • Technologies/Tools used: React Native, Firebase, Next.js, Hyperverge, AI-based analytics.
Navigating Grey
Dec 20232 yrs 8 mosJul 2026

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Building SustainImpact Navigator, a web and mobile platform that helps organizations collect, track and analyze real-world community impact and sustainability data over time. • Designed and built the platform across mobile, web and backend, including ZIP-level geospatial intelligence, interactive maps, geographic boundaries, impact dashboards and dataset-driven analytics. • Built product workflows for surveys and field-data collection, media capture, collaboration, moderation, KPI tracking, assignments, notifications and real-time application updates. • Architected an Agentic AI platform that allows configurable AI agents to operate with defined capabilities, tools, prompts, memory, datasets, permissions and human oversight. • Designed the RAG and knowledge infrastructure covering document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, semantic retrieval, agent memory and retrieval audit/telemetry.
Kazam
Apr 20232 yrsMar 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

GitHub
@hiteshawasthi11

Hitesh’s AI Stack

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Education

Axis Colleges

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

Axis Colleges

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Headline

Always Building. Open to What’s Next. | Tech Lead @ Kazam EV

About

Engineer focused on building scalable Mobile Apps, AI Agents, Backend Systems, Cloud Infrastructure and more.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

cursor

grok

langchain

Work experience

Tech Lead - Mobile at Kazam, Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Led architecture and engineering for Kazam’s EV charging ecosystem, impacting over 2M users and 250k+ charge points globally. • Lead a team of 10 engineers across the Kazam B2C app, 50+ white-label applications and the battery swapping platform • Developed a multi-tenant App Factory, reducing new app release time from 30 days to under 30 minutes. • Ensured system reliability with 99.9% uptime, handling over 30k daily transactions.

Software Engineer II at Kazam, Mar 2025 - Aug 2025 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Rebuilt the entire mobile app and backend, enhancing scalability and performance for over a million users. • Redesigned charger discovery using MongoDB aggregation pipelines and Redis caching, reducing response time from 30–60 seconds to under 1 second and payload size from ~500KB to ~10KB. • Consolidated 30+ client-server API calls into a unified aggregation layer, significantly reducing network overhead and backend load. • Built idempotent payment callback handling across 20+ payment gateways and worked on OCPI roaming for cross-CPO charger discovery and charging. • Helped scale the battery swapping platform from launch to 25k+ swaps per month.

Software Engineer - Mobile at be offline, Jan 2024 - Nov 2024 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Developed a Mobile app to help users connect based on shared experiences, emotional growth, and hyper-personalized meetups. • Built personalized feeds for users to track connection insights, shared experiences, and emotional growth. • Integrated eKYC verification system to ensure secure connections with verified profiles, eliminating bots and fake accounts. • Implemented AI-driven personality charts and relational insights for personalized profile suggestions. • Created an engaging quiz-based interaction system to foster meaningful conversations between users. • Designed a curated meetup system, allowing users to filter locations based on interests and schedule meetups seamlessly. • Technologies/Tools used: React Native, Firebase, Next.js, Hyperverge, AI-based analytics.

Software Engineer - AI at Navigating Grey, Dec 2023 - Jul 2026 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, • Building SustainImpact Navigator, a web and mobile platform that helps organizations collect, track and analyze real-world community impact and sustainability data over time. • Designed and built the platform across mobile, web and backend, including ZIP-level geospatial intelligence, interactive maps, geographic boundaries, impact dashboards and dataset-driven analytics. • Built product workflows for surveys and field-data collection, media capture, collaboration, moderation, KPI tracking, assignments, notifications and real-time application updates. • Architected an Agentic AI platform that allows configurable AI agents to operate with defined capabilities, tools, prompts, memory, datasets, permissions and human oversight. • Designed the RAG and knowledge infrastructure covering document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, semantic retrieval, agent memory and retrieval audit/telemetry.

Software Engineer - Mobile at Kazam, Apr 2023 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Axis Colleges

Public links

github: https://github.com/hiteshawasthi11