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Founding Software Engineer at KNOT | Backend & Applied AI | Python, FastAPI, Flutter | Route Intelligence & Data Platforms

About

I build software across backend systems, applied AI, data platforms, and Flutter apps. As a Founding Software Engineer at KNOT, I turn operational problems into products and infrastructure that improve the customer experience. Selected work: • Designed and built route intelligence that reduced median delivery SLA breach time from 38 minutes to 0 in one month, combining deadline-aware batching, rider availability, and route optimization. • Architected a hybrid Next.js/Flutter website: launched a server-rendered homepage and selected pages for SEO while the rest continued in Flutter, connected through NGINX, cookies, and localStorage. • Built multimodal LLM catalog enrichment with taxonomy validation, human review, and recoverable PostgreSQL job queues; automated catalog-image generation with Azure AI APIs. • Built Python/Rust ETL pipelines from Amplitude and Branch into ClickHouse for product analytics and attribution, with deduplication, checkpoints, and historical backfills. • Led Flutter development across Android, iOS, and Web, including server-driven UI, BLoC state management, and version-compatible API contracts. Previously at Slick, I progressed from Frontend Intern to Frontend and Data Analytics Lead, helped launch the app in two months, and led Flutter development and analytics as the platform grew to 2.5M users. My work included Python ETL, PostgreSQL cohort reporting, and ChatGPT-powered content moderation. Side projects include Kogni, an LLM-based UPSC preparation assistant with cited document Q&A, quizzes, answer evaluation, and a learner context engine; and Vdocr, a Polygon-based document verification platform. Core stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, Rust, Flutter/Dart, Next.js/TypeScript, Azure, and NGINX.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

hermes agent

meta

RunPod

Wispr Flow

Work experience

Founding Software Engineer at KNOT, Sep 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Building backend systems, applied AI, data infrastructure, and consumer experiences for KNOT's quick-commerce fashion platform. • Designed and built route intelligence that reduced median delivery SLA breach time from 38 minutes to 0 in one month, combining deadline-aware batching, rider availability, and route optimization. • Architected a hybrid Next.js/Flutter website: launched a server-rendered homepage and selected pages for SEO while the rest continued in Flutter, connected through NGINX routing, cookies, and localStorage. • Engineered multimodal LLM catalog enrichment using product images and text, taxonomy validation, human review, and durable PostgreSQL processing jobs with idempotent imports. • Built Python/Rust ETL from Amplitude and Branch into ClickHouse for product analytics and marketing attribution, with deduplication, checkpoints, and recoverable backfills. • Led Flutter development across Android, iOS, and Web; designed server-driven UI with BLoC state management and version-compatible API contracts. • Built FastAPI/PostgreSQL services and warehouse, brand, and delivery-partner tools spanning catalog, inventory, orders, and operational analytics. • Automated catalog-image generation with Azure AI APIs, rate-limited batches, failure recovery, and transactional publication.

Frontend and Data Analytics Lead (Slick) at KNOT, Sep 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bangalore Urban, Led frontend engineering and product analytics at Slick before the pivot to KNOT. • Led Flutter development and Android/iOS releases as Slick grew to 2.5M users. • Built Python ETL for Amplitude exports and PostgreSQL cohort reporting for college-level DAU, WAU, and daily/weekly retention, backed by cached activity data. • Integrated ChatGPT-powered content moderation into user-generated-content workflows. • Instrumented post visibility, time spent, and navigation events to measure engagement and content consumption. • Implemented incremental contact synchronization using normalized phone identifiers, local-state diffs, and isolate-based contact loading. • Partnered with product, design, and growth teams to ship and iterate on mobile experiences.

Frontend Intern (Slick) at KNOT, Nov 2022 - Sep 2023 · 11 mos, Bangalore Urban, Joined as an early team member and worked with the founders to build and launch Slick in two months. • Developed core Flutter screens and interactions for the social platform. • Integrated Firebase and Amplitude to track feature adoption and user behaviour. • Contributed early data pipelines and internal tools for product-usage analysis. • Progressed to Frontend and Data Analytics Lead in September 2023.

Flutter Developer at CoinMint, Sep 2022 - Nov 2022 · 3 mos, Remote

Technical Co-Founder at VDocr, Feb 2022 - Jul 2022 · 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Responsible for developing frontend with Flutter and managing the development team

Full Stack Developer at Nurow, Jun 2021 - Aug 2021 · 3 mos, India, - Designed and Developed Front End With Flutter - Developed a Python API for communication with the database - Built an image recognition system in python for basic analysis of X-Ray

Full Stack Developer at Pipory, Nov 2020 - Apr 2021 · 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Education

Engineer's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mahindra University