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title: "Hitesh Awasthi - Tech Lead - Mobile in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Hitesh Awasthi, Always Building. Open to What’s Next. | Tech Lead @ Kazam EV based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude. Explore public work links including github."
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# Hitesh Awasthi on Tal

## 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

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