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title: "Pranav Totla - Engineering Lead in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Pranav Totla, Engineering Lead · 0→1 Builder · Production AI Agents · Full-Stack + 3D/WebGL based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and codex."
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# Pranav Totla on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Lead · 0→1 Builder · Production AI Agents · Full\-Stack \+ 3D/WebGL

## About

I am an engineering leader specializing in building production\-grade AI agent systems and high\-performing technical teams\. As the first founding engineer at Snaptrude, I scaled a complex cloud\-native 3D design platform from zero to 10k concurrent users\. My work focuses on architecting agentic workflows, implementing AI\-TDD practices, and driving deep systems design in WebGL and 3D geometry\. With a background in building teams from 3 to 15\+ engineers, I blend hands\-on technical execution with strategic organizational leadership to deliver scalable, AI\-integrated software solutions\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

cursor

langchain

mcp

## Work experience

Engineering Lead at Snaptrude, Oct 2020 \- Jun 2026 · 5 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Report directly to the CEO\. Own architecture, AI strategy, and release cadence for the entire engineering org\. Built the Snaptrude Harness: an agentic workflow engine that takes a plain\-English prompt and handles the full architectural design process\. Agents with tool calling, retrieval\-grounded context, MCP integration, multi\-model orchestration, and eval pipelines\. The framework is domain\-agnostic, the application is architecture\. Grew the team from 3 to 15\+ engineers across 5 pods\. Built QA, automation, and devops from zero\. 10x test coverage increase\. SOC2, GDPR, CMMC, ISO 27001:2022 completed\. Shipped 20\+ features in 2025\-2026: Snaptrude Lite launch, AI Program Creation, Snaptrude Spreadsheet, monetization, geometry operations, AI agents, AI inspirations\. Scaled to 10k concurrent users designing, saving, and collaborating in 3D in real time\. Rolled out AI\-TDD workflows to every developer, built an auto bug resolver \(SnapBot\)\. Eval pipelines gate every AI release\. Ran multiple engineering hackathons \(performance, scalability, agentic command bar, atomic transactions, AI renders\)\.

Software Engineer at Snaptrude, Jan 2018 \- Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, First engineer at the company\. Built the core product from scratch\. Wrote the 3D geometry engine: linear algebra, BREP operations, polygon skeletonization, curved surface support \(Bezier\) in WebGL/Babylon\.js\. Built the 2D module: image upload, processing, object detection with OpenCV, sketching, and editing using computational geometry algorithms\. Designed and built real\-time collaboration: multiple users working on the same 3D project simultaneously with conflict resolution, live sync, and permissions\. Google Docs for 3D\. Built the AutoCAD importer \(became a top 3 feature on the platform\), the spreadsheet and BI system, autosave, and the logging framework\. Led core architecture overhaul: unified two separate workflows into one, reducing user wait time from 2 minutes to instant\. Reduced request sizes from MBs to KBs\. Automated a 30\-click image upload flow down to 1\. Enabled iPad support, increasing user base by 30%\. Onboarded and mentored 10\+ engineers\.

Software Engineer at Applied Materials, Jul 2017 \- Dec 2017 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • As a part of the CMP \(Chemical Mechanical Polishing\) \- Software team, responsible for handling software requests \(enhancement requests and bug fixes\), comprising the end\-to\-end process from finding the root cause to designing, developing and testing the solution\. • Participated in hackathons, developing internal tools for various teams\. • Worked on: C\.

Developer Intern at Snaptrude, Jul 2015 \- Jun 2016 · 1 yr, • Worked on the designing, developing and deploying of the Webtrude webapp \(both front\-end and back\-end\) which also included the integration of Google Maps API, Google Analytics API, payment gateway API\. • Worked on the database design of the Webtrude app\. • Worked on: Django, MySQL, BootStrap, jQuery\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(BE\), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University

12th, H\. S\. Kotambri Pre University Science Institute

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