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title: "Karishnu Poddar - Senior System Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Karishnu Poddar, Software Engineer @ Cloudflare based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes cursor and opencode. Explore public work links including github."
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# Karishnu Poddar on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer @ Cloudflare

## About

I love hacking and building products that people love to use\. I am the co\-author of a patent describing a privacy\-preserving AI asset search algorithm & published a top 2% \(by citations\) research paper\. I have also built products at companies like Postman, Yellow\.ai and Scapia in the past\. I was the lead engineer for Inbox \(ticket/chat management system\) at yellow\.ai where I setup systems to scale traffic from 10k to 100k\+ requests/second\. I also built out the email ticketing & analytics products from scratch there, and setup processes for testing, documentation & code review to scale the team\. At Scapia, I led products to help travellers apply for visa and avail EMI on their travel spends\. Currently I am building generative AI solutions in the software security space at P0\. In college, I built online games that went viral \(1000s of downloads in 2 days\) & launched a model space probe at a NASA competition in Texas \(ranked 1st in Asia\)\. I was awarded the Chancellor's Special Achiever's award for this\. I am also a certified advanced scuba diver and I spend my free time running marathons and traveling\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

cursor

opencode

## Work experience

Senior System Engineer at Cloudflare, Nov 2025 \- Present · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Excited to share that I’m starting a new role at Cloudflare, joining the ETI India \(Emerging Technology & Incubation\) team\. I’ll be working on new AI initiatives at the intersection of systems, infrastructure, and applied AI — with the goal of helping build a better, safer, and more open Internet\. I’ll be starting with vibeSDK, a project focused on democratising “vibe coding” and making powerful AI\-driven development workflows more accessible to builders\.

Generative AI Engineer at Launch, Sep 2024 \- Sep 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, Remote, Launch\.Today \(No Code Vibe coding platform for production\-ready apps\) \- Built an agentic LLM\-based platform from scratch \- Prompt engineered multiple parts of the workflow to get optimal results \- Built an auto code fixing layer over the generated code to output working apps consistently \- Learnt how to grow a consumer AI app from 0\-1 and onboard customers P0\.inc \(static analysis \+ gen AI based API vulnerability scanner\) \- Wrote AST parsers and gen AI\-based static analysis tools to find vulnerable code in Golang and \.NET repositories\.

Senior Software Engineer at Scapia, Aug 2023 \- Sep 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Built the Visa product from scratch that enabled Scapia customers to apply for travel visas on the app\. \- Built the async EMI stack for features like TNPL, where users could avail EMI that would be posted on transaction settlement\. \- Developed an end\-to\-end mocking framework with a no\-code interface, reducing testing time for card onboarding from a day to a few minutes\. \- Owned and developed the backend for the gamification feature, which increased the % of customers making their first transaction in the first week by 20\.

Exploring Gen AI / Career Break at Coval\.ai, May 2023 \- Aug 2023 · 4 mos, \- Spent time building solutions for automated ticket resolution on Salesforce using gen AI\. \- Scuba dived across the North of Egypt

SDE 3 / Tech Lead at Yellow\.ai, Jul 2020 \- Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leadership Initiatives \- Supervised and collaborated with new joiners while providing technical direction, which helped grow the back\-end engineering team from 3 members to 8 within a year\. \- Introduced unit testing and linting, and guided teammates in writing better unit tests\. This reduced the time to production for minor code changes and made production bugs in older code a rare occurrence\. \- Developed triage processes that reduced the time taken to solve repeated issues from days to hours, clearing a backlog of 100\+ tickets to 0 within 2 weeks\. \- Led scrum while actively clearing team blockers, which led to a 40% reduction in time taken to complete shorter tasks\. Individual Contributions \- Wrote and deployed a Golang \- Postgres micro\-service from scratch that enabled CS agents to handle tickets over the email channel \(similar to Freshdesk/Zendesk\)\. \- Revamped the back\-end that handled agent conversations to Node\.js MVC architecture and eventually scaled it to handle 80k RPM from 8K RPM over 2 years\. \- Optimised critical API routes, reducing response time by 60%\. \- Built a Bull queue\-based MongoDB \- ElasticSearch sync that fixed race conditions and increased reliability\. \- Built APIs for the analytic dashboard, enabling CS admins to monitor agent performance\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Vellore Institute of Technology

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/karishnu

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