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title: "Pulkit Kumar - Founding Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Pulkit Kumar, AWS & Anthropic Certified | AI Inference & Data Infra | IEEE & Springer Published | 3+ Provisional Patents based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude, and codex. Explore public work links including github and buddywhitman.vercel.app."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/pulkit-kumar/share-image"
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# Pulkit Kumar on Tal

## Headline

AWS & Anthropic Certified \| AI Inference & Data Infra \| IEEE & Springer Published \| 3\+ Provisional Patents

## About

Shipped my first website and PCB at the age of 9\. Contributing upstream to SGLang \(DSpark speculative decoding\) & vLLM \(FlowPrefill scheduler\) in recent years\. Building: \- Production Inference & Distributed Systems \- High\-throughput Data Engineering Pipelines \- Safety\-critical Embedded & Control Systems Reach out if you have systems that need performance optimization at the inference layers or fault tolerance for resource\-constrained edge AI deployments

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

claude

codex

hermes agent

GroqCloud

vLLM

## Work experience

Founding Engineer at Guaq AI, Nov 2025 \- Present · 11 mos, B2B SaaS run by agentic AI\. Scaled to 15\+ clients across hospitality, real estate, SME finance & luxury retail, with \~$10K MRR in 6 months\.

Software Engineer \(Platform\) at Fettle, Jan 2026 \- Jun 2026 · 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, \- Building multilingual Voice AI infrastructure for hospital operations and customer engagement\. \- Designing Redis\-backed asynchronous systems and inference orchestration around LiveKit & SIP telephony \- Developing hybrid recommendation systems and backend platform components for corporate healthcare

Machine Learning Engineer at Teachafy Labs, Jul 2025 \- Dec 2025 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Developed distributed document processing systems with Redis locking and Kubernetes\-based execution \- Built agentic workflows & WhatsApp\-ERP integrations \- Implemented observability and fault\-tolerant pipelines

Embedded Software Engineer at Symbionic, Apr 2025 \- Jun 2025 · 3 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Developed firmware around custom ESP32\-based hardware for EMG/EEG signal acquisition & spatiotemporal fusion

Electronics Head at SolarMobil Manipal, Jan 2024 \- Aug 2026 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Manipal, India, \- Developed STM32H7 firmware using FreeRTOS and TouchGFX for custom ECU & HMI subsystems \- Built telemetry & race analytics infrastructure, integrating vehicle, weather and geospatial data \- Contributed to digital twin and optimisation workflows for race strategy

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Manipal institute of technology

High School Diploma, Computer Science, St\. Francis De Sales Public School

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/buddywhitman
- buddywhitman\.vercel\.app: https://buddywhitman\.vercel\.app/

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