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title: "Navita Pareek - Head of Engineering in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Navita Pareek, Designed and Built Scalable Systems | Agile | Lean Startup Ex-Founder | Ex-Microsoft | Ex-ThoughtWorks based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and midjourney."
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# Navita Pareek on Tal

## Headline

Designed and Built Scalable Systems \| Agile \| Lean Startup Ex\-Founder \| Ex\-Microsoft \| Ex\-ThoughtWorks

## About

Navita has over 13 years of experience in technology and team leadership\. Currently heading Engineering team at a fintech startup \- "Zeny" 1\. Expertise in system design, team building, and managing the full software development lifecycle\. 2\. Formerly worked at global tech leaders, including Microsoft and ThoughtWorks\. 3\. Designed scalable, multi\-tier web services capable of handling 10k\+ daily visitors\. 4\. Mentored over 100 junior engineers and college students in MERN and genAI technologies\. 5\. Enhanced 11k\+ users' experience with continuous feedback collection and platform upgrades\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

midjourney

windsurf

## Work experience

Head of Engineering at Zeny \- Daily Savings, Sep 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, 1\. Zeny is a fast growing fintech startup\. I am making sure that tech continuously supports this growth\. 2\. Building a scalable investment system for 300 Million Indians\.

Chief Technology Officer at InstaPhotoAI, Dec 2023 \- Jul 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos, Took a generative AI image platform from zero to production in under a year, leading a cross\-functional team of 12 engineers, designers, and marketers\. Designed AWS architecture for 99% uptime under AI inference loads; self\-hosted Stable Diffusion on EC2, built APIs, monitoring, and on\-call processes, reducing infra cost and establishing engineering foundations from scratch\.

Entrepreneur in Residence at Antler, Jan 2023 \- Nov 2023 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1\. Residency program about building successful products\. 2\. Developed expertise in market analysis, MVP creation, and team building to validate and launch startup ideas\. 3\. Collaborated with founders across Israel, the US, and Singapore to refine MVPs and validate product\-market fit in diverse domains\. 4\. Created multiple MVPs to test 10\+ ideas\. 5\. Tech used \- ReactJS, NodeJS, Microsoft Clarity

Technical Consultant at Zealth\-AI \(YC W21\), Aug 2020 \- Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1\. ZealthAI is a HealthTech startup, backed by Y Combinator and Antler\. 2\. Led a team of 8 developers in building a suite of four AI applications\. 3\. Developed the complete tech infrastructure and deployed machine learning algorithms\. 4\. Implemented the FHIR schema, achieving compliance with HealthTech industry standards, and enabling seamless data integration for healthcare systems\.

Technical Lead at ZealthAI, Aug 2020 \- Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Led 8 engineers including a Flutter squad that shipped a cross\-platform clinical app across multiple hospital systems\. Integrated ML models for clinical decision support and drove FHIR compliance, directly contributing to several enterprise healthcare partnerships\.

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University

Computer Science, D\. A\. V\. Public School, Ranchi

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