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title: "Karan Hejmadi - Founding Full Stack Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Karan Hejmadi, Founding Engineer | Web, Mobile, Backend & AI based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes cursor and opencode."
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# Karan Hejmadi on Tal

## Headline

Founding Engineer \| Web, Mobile, Backend & AI

## About

Product builder with impeccable focus on design and engineering\. I work at the intersection of product, design, engineering and business strategy enabling early startups to get their product running to market fit\. Experienced across the stack from web, mobile, backend, infra and AI\. Proficient in technologies like React, React Native, Node, Python, Go, AWS, Azure\. Love working in teams with high agency and smart peers to learn from\! Currently building an AI native platform for robust manufacturing infrastructure with digital experiences involving virtual reality factory tours, digital factory twins, supply chain and logistics at Custiv\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

cursor

opencode

## Work experience

Founding Full Stack Engineer at Custiv, Jan 2022 \- Present · 4 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Joined as the founding engineer, scaling the engineering and design teams from the ground up while establishing core architectural patterns and development workflows\. Architected and delivered 0\-to\-1 enterprise manufacturing platforms, optimizing infrastructure design to slash monthly cloud spend by 80% while scaling to support multi\-million dollar revenue pipelines\. Pioneering an AI\-native live\-auditing suite featuring automated summaries and interactive observation chat, compressed a weeks\-long manual reporting workflow into an instant turnaround shared with suppliers the moment an auditor leaves the facility\. Designing a custom manufacturing master data platform and quality management system, implementing granular event\-tracking and complex version\-control architecture for engineering change management\. Spent time directly on the manufacturing shop floor to translate real\-world operational challenges and business context into practical software solutions for end customers\. Drove early\-stage startup growth across cross\-functional domains, contributing directly to technical hiring, sales engineering, and investor pitch strategies alongside the founding team\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer and Communication Engineering, Manipal institute of technology

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