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Punith Ganadinni

Building Self-Improving AI Agents @ Swiggy CREW | EM | Ex-VP Eng, Digii

Bengaluru

5+ years of work experience

CREW
Sep 20251 yrPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building self-improving AI agents for travel, dining, gifting and more — systems that simulate, evaluate, reflect, and get better on their own. Leading a team shipping at the edge of what's possible with LLMs, where "that's not feasible" has a shelf life of about two weeks. Also slowly mastering the ancient art of corporate navigation — turns out the hardest problem isn't the agents, it's finding the right Slack channel.
Swiggy
Jul 20251 yr 2 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Infinite Possibilities
Mar 20255 mosJul 2025

Remote

Digii (formerly CollPoll)
Sep 20222 yrs 6 mosFeb 2025

* Served as De-Facto CTO for 3 years, driving optimization of technical budgets and partnering with the CEO to create AOP for efficient and scalable operations * Scaled the engineering team from 8 to 46 talented members, introducing a pod-based structure that improved scalability, fostered a Leader-Leader culture, and enhanced team ownership and performance * Led product management for the Finance team for 18 months, delivering a financial module processing over INR 50000 Cr+ annually for higher education institutions
Digii (formerly CollPoll)
Aug 20211 yr 2 mosSep 2022

* Engineered a resilient infrastructure by distributing workloads across AWS and Azure, improving risk mitigation and ensuring high availability * Achieved a 70% reduction in cloud compute costs by implementing a multi-tenancy architecture, increasing operational efficiency * Improved the client on-boarding time from days to minutes by automating the Infra using Terraform
Digii (formerly CollPoll)
Jul 20212 mosAug 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

* Developed a Finance module from scratch including integrations with 16 Payment gateways namely Razorpay, Eazebuzz, etc which served as Tertiary book of Accounts for Institutions and also enabled integration with Tally, Zoho and other accounting solutions * Lead the development for a No-code workflow engine helping institutions automate 1000+ workflows with over 10 Cr+ tickets resolved
Twin Health
Mar 20214 mosJun 2021

* Handled the Customer Payments and subscriptions End to end, using third party integrations like zoho and Razorpay * Worked on queuing and improving the notification abstraction and delivery mechanism in the project * Hiring and on-boarding new team members and getting them started on different projects

Education

Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology

Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering

20134 yrs2017

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200011 yrs2011

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Headline

Building Self-Improving AI Agents @ Swiggy CREW | EM | Ex-VP Eng, Digii

About

Engineering leader with a background in technical leadership, team scaling, and building products from zero to one. Ex-VP of Engineering at Digii, now at Swiggy's CREW — building AI-powered concierge agents at the cutting edge of agentic systems. I believe we're at a genuine inflection point in how software gets built, and the 10x unlock is real for anyone intentional enough to grab it.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

EM at CREW, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building self-improving AI agents for travel, dining, gifting and more — systems that simulate, evaluate, reflect, and get better on their own. Leading a team shipping at the edge of what's possible with LLMs, where "that's not feasible" has a shelf life of about two weeks. Also slowly mastering the ancient art of corporate navigation — turns out the hardest problem isn't the agents, it's finding the right Slack channel.

EM at Swiggy, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

CTO at Infinite Possibilities, Mar 2025 - Jul 2025 · 5 mos, Remote

VP - Engineering at Digii (formerly CollPoll), Sep 2022 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos, * Served as De-Facto CTO for 3 years, driving optimization of technical budgets and partnering with the CEO to create AOP for efficient and scalable operations * Scaled the engineering team from 8 to 46 talented members, introducing a pod-based structure that improved scalability, fostered a Leader-Leader culture, and enhanced team ownership and performance * Led product management for the Finance team for 18 months, delivering a financial module processing over INR 50000 Cr+ annually for higher education institutions

Director Of Engineering at Digii (formerly CollPoll), Aug 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, * Engineered a resilient infrastructure by distributing workloads across AWS and Azure, improving risk mitigation and ensuring high availability * Achieved a 70% reduction in cloud compute costs by implementing a multi-tenancy architecture, increasing operational efficiency * Improved the client on-boarding time from days to minutes by automating the Infra using Terraform

Staff Engineer and Head of Engineering management at Digii (formerly CollPoll), Jul 2021 - Aug 2021 · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, * Developed a Finance module from scratch including integrations with 16 Payment gateways namely Razorpay, Eazebuzz, etc which served as Tertiary book of Accounts for Institutions and also enabled integration with Tally, Zoho and other accounting solutions * Lead the development for a No-code workflow engine helping institutions automate 1000+ workflows with over 10 Cr+ tickets resolved

Engineering at Twin Health, Mar 2021 - Jun 2021 · 4 mos, * Handled the Customer Payments and subscriptions End to end, using third party integrations like zoho and Razorpay * Worked on queuing and improving the notification abstraction and delivery mechanism in the project * Hiring and on-boarding new team members and getting them started on different projects

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering

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