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# Pradeep Gururani on Tal

## Headline

Head of Engineering \| VP Engineering \| Published Author

## About

I've spent 23 years building and running engineering organisations, mostly in environments where the stakes were real: high\-compliance payments infrastructure, GDPR, FATF and AML regulatory frameworks, greenfield GCC setup, and early\-stage ventures where everything is on the line\. My experience spans both sides\. Building from zero across healthtech, privacy technology, and fintech\. Operating at scale in high\-compliance B2B environments\. Scaling cross\-cultural teams across India, UK, US, and Denmark\. Along the way I noticed that most engineering leaders face the same hard problems: adopting AI without getting burned, measuring what actually matters in engineering productivity, and building teams that stay\. I wrote two books on these topics, one on engineering culture and DORA metrics, one on AI infrastructure evaluation, because I wanted to put a practical framework in the hands of leaders who were navigating these decisions without one\. Open to discussions on senior engineering leadership, architecture, and AI strategy\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

langgraph

langsmith

## Work experience

Co\-Founder, CTO at Mediminds Technologies, Nov 2023 \- Jul 2026 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bangalore, MediMinds is a healthcare technology startup building AI\-powered SaaS products to automate clinical workflows and improve patient engagement\. As co\-founder and CTO, I own the technical direction, engineering organisation, and product architecture\. This is a builder role: I set the roadmap, hire the team, and stay hands\-on with the platform\. \- Defined an 18\-month operating plan covering technical roadmap, hiring strategy, budget, and enterprise customer ramp; presented to investors \- Built the engineering organisation from scratch, recruiting and onboarding 25 professionals \- Established an AI\-first engineering culture: gave every developer a $50/month budget to adopt any AI tooling they chose, driving team\-wide adoption of Cursor, Claude and Azure AI services \- Integrated Azure Speech and Azure AI Document Intelligence to automate clinical document processing and patient engagement workflows \- Conducted build\-vs\-buy analysis for GenAI solutions, evaluating GPT\-4, Claude, and Llama against cost, latency and healthcare compliance requirements \- Implemented shift\-left security practices including automated NuGet vulnerability scanning, detecting and remediating CVEs before production exposure \- Designed SaaS platform architecture using sliced architecture patterns and Fast\-Endpoints over ASP\.NET, optimising for maintainability and long\-term performance

Director, India Operations at November First ®, May 2021 \- Jan 2022 · 9 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Founder & CEO at ThingMZing Labs, Apr 2021 \- Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore, ThingMZing was a privacy\-first social platform built on zero\-knowledge architecture, giving users verifiable control over their data without trusting the platform operator\. As founder and CEO, I owned product vision, architecture, fundraising, partnerships, and team building\. The platform was shut down in 2023 following a strategic assessment of unit economics and market fit\. \- Raised $50K seed funding and established partnerships with Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy International, Brave, and Proton for zero\-knowledge architecture implementation \- Built cross\-functional team of 12 and scaled the platform to 10K\+ monthly active users through community\-driven, decentralized moderation \- Designed distributed system architecture using Azure Event Hubs and Azure Functions, achieving eventual consistency across decentralised platform components \- Led company wind\-down responsibly: coordinated data deletion, supported team transitions and maintained stakeholder communication throughout

Director, India Operations at November First ®, Oct 2019 \- Apr 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos, India, In addition to my continued engineering responsibilities, I took on full operational ownership of the India entity, establishing it as November First's engineering delivery hub\. \- Established the India GCC from the ground up: company formation and compliance, office search and negotiation, equipment agreement, local HR partnerships, outsourced payroll with a CA firm and ongoing vendor management \- Built and scaled a 10\-engineer team with industry\-leading under 7% attrition and 40% cost optimisation vs the onshore model \- Led cloud migration to Azure, leveraging weekend non\-trading windows to achieve zero\-downtime cutover, unlocking async and event\-driven architecture for core payment flows \- Managed stakeholder relationships with Denmark HQ across engineering, product, and executive leadership

Lead Engineer at November First ®, Jun 2016 \- Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, November First operates a B2B payment processing platform serving 250\+ merchants across Nordic markets, processing 100M DKK in daily transaction volume under GDPR, AML and FATF compliance frameworks\. As lead engineer, I owned the core platform technically end\-to\-end across architecture, delivery, and compliance infrastructure\. \- Built the FATF screening system from scratch: automated detection of payments to blacklisted entities using regularly updated sanctions lists, achieving 99\.99% compliance with GDPR, AML and FATF standards \- Eliminated deployment failures by implementing TeamCity and Octopus Deploy, reducing deployment time from 60 minutes to 5\-10 minutes with full automation \- Introduced Azure Event Hubs and Azure Functions to replace synchronous payment flows with event\-driven, eventually consistent architecture \- Operated within a Domain Driven Design codebase, owning bounded contexts across payment processing, merchant onboarding and compliance

Principal Architect at Symphony Teleca, Sep 2015 \- Oct 2015 · 2 mos, Bangalore

Solutions Architect at Symphony Teleca, Jun 2014 \- Aug 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bangalore, Strategically spearheaded the design and execution of a cloud\-native digital platform for Europe's largest MVNO \(Mobile Virtual Network Operator\)\. In collaboration with the customer's CTO and enterprise architect, navigated tight deadlines and stringent quality parameters to deliver a high\-impact solution\. Orchestrated the seamless integration of on\-premise systems with modern cloud\-native systems, generating over €10m in cost savings\. Coordinated cross\-continent team spanning the client and service company\.

Founder at Pertinent Software Systems, Nov 2012 \- Jun 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bangalore, Developed few not so successful business oriented products\. Concepts are still valid however needed more focus on strategy and execution\. Developed two other moderately successful products which were consumer oriented with social flavor\.

## Education

Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam

PG Diploma in Advance Computing, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, c\-dac

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