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title: "Rajat Vijay - Director of Engineering, AI in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Rajat Vijay, AI Engineering @ Certa (getcerta.com) based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/rajat-vijay/share-image"
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# Rajat Vijay on Tal

## Headline

AI Engineering @ Certa \(getcerta\.com\)

## About

Innovative Engineering Leader with 8\+ years of experience driving technological advancements in enterprise software\. Currently Director of Engineering at Certa, spearheading AI integration and frontend excellence\. Proven track record of scaling high\-performance engineering teams and architecting robust, efficient software solutions\. Tech Leadership Highlights: \- AI Innovation: Pioneering the development of a comprehensive AI product lineup, revolutionising enterprise workflows through advanced natural language processing, automated document analysis, and intelligent process automation\. \- Architecture Transformation: Orchestrated monorepo migration and TypeScript adoption, significantly enhancing development velocity and code reliability\. \- Performance Optimisation: Achieved 36% reduction in Largest Contentful Paint \(LCP\) across all pages, elevating user experience\. \- Engineering Excellence: Championed Test\-Driven Development \(TDD\), increasing test coverage from 15% to 85% and reducing regressions by 60%\. Leadership Philosophy: \- Empowering Teams: Scaled engineering team from 4 to 15, implementing SMART goals and fostering a culture of continuous improvement\. \- Process Innovation: Established streamlined on\-call procedures and formalised hiring processes, boosting team efficiency by 30%\. \- Tech Stack Evolution: Drove adoption of modern development tools and practices, significantly enhancing developer productivity and code quality across the organisation\. Committed to leveraging cutting\-edge technologies to solve complex business challenges while nurturing the next generation of tech talent\. Passionate about open\-source contributions and staying at the forefront of software engineering best practices\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

## Work experience

Director of Engineering, AI at Certa\.ai, Mar 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Leading AI Products & Frontend Teams @ Certa

Staff Software Engineer at Certa\.ai, Dec 2020 \- Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 1\. Led team growth from 4 to 15 members\. 2\. Led research and implementation of DesignAI product, including POCs for workflow JSON generation and BRD to Studio conversion 3\. Implemented SMART goal\-setting process, focusing on User/Business Impact with measurable success metrics for each project 4\. Streamlined 1:1 documentation to effectively track action items and feedback, enhancing team communication and accountability 5\. Established on\-call engineering process, increasing team velocity by 30% \(completing 30% more story points\) 6\. Formalised interview process and feedback format, resulting in more efficient hiring and better actionable insights from each interview 7\. Fostered documentation\-oriented culture, creating comprehensive guides for onboarding, on\-call procedures, and hiring processes 8\. Contributed to the codebase for various features like \- Global Search, Followups in Design AI, etc\. Team Achievements \- 1\. Reduced Largest Contentful Paint \(LCP\) by 36% across all pages, significantly enhancing user experience\. 2\. Created the internal component library based on the company’s design system, reducing UI bugs by 40% and increasing development speed and UI standardisation 3\. Improved foundational styling setup to enhance inclusiveness\(a11y\), ensuring UI functionality across all zoom levels and font sizes

Senior Software Engineer at Certa\.ai, Feb 2019 \- Dec 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 1\. Managed the planning and delivery of the entire frontend product lineup 2\. Led Typescript migration in 6 months, reducing regressions by 60% 3\. Spearheaded monorepo migration, leading to increased velocity and improved developer experience 4\. Increased unit and integration test coverage from 15% to 85%, significantly improving code reliability and maintainability 5\. Introduced and cultivated a practice of Test\-Driven Development \(TDD\), reducing chances of missing test suites for features/bug\-fixes and edge cases 6\. Drove redesign efforts, optimising UX, improving customer sentiment, and increasing user activity\. 7\. Migrated state management strategy to include react\-query, enabling improved performance through out\-of\-the\-box caching, enhanced developer experience by reducing boilerplate, and improved debugging capabilities 8\. Spearheaded development of a React\-based reporting module, transitioning customers from Tableau, reducing licensing costs by 80% and enhancing user interface efficiency 9\. Implemented automated coding rules enforcement using custom ESLint rules, reducing back\-and\-forth during PR reviews by 30%

Software Engineer at Level AI, Jun 2018 \- Feb 2019 · 9 mos, New Delhi Area, India, 1\. Developed multiple dashboards for voice and text data annotation, optimizing UX for rapid annotation of conversational voice clips\. 2\. Designed and maintained a Node\.js service providing a scalable, socket\-enabled interface for Google Speech\-to\-Text service\. 3\. Enabled real\-time systems to facilitate live transcripts across multiple frontends \(web \+ mobile\)\. 4\. Engineered voice AI\-enabled systems for major financial institutions, incorporating: Real\-time conversation analysis, Fraud detection capabilities, Targeted cross\-sell functionality, Knowledge search integration\.

CTO, Co\-founder at YourMech\.in, Mar 2018 \- Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Software Engineer \- Frontend Lead at Acadview, Feb 2017 \- Jun 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos, New Delhi Area, India, 1\. Transformed monolith into a composition of multiple isolated modules, efficiently managing dependencies and reducing bundle size by 25% 2\. Developed scripts to generate layouts for new modules, decreasing development time by 20% 3\. Implemented Test\-Driven Development \(TDD\) using Jest, enabling continuous integration and deployment 4\. Improved deployment frequency from once per week to multiple times per day 5\. Accelerated class cancellation and rescheduling by 75% through automation of schedule management for batches 6\. Built an online enrollment system, amplifying online payments by 50% and reducing the sales team's on\-ground effort 7\. Engineered multiple dashboards using D3\.js and SVGs to help businesses monitor sales performance and enable operations to monitor delivery quality across batches and seasons

Software Developer Intern at Acadview, Aug 2016 \- Jan 2017 · 6 mos, New Delhi Area, India, 1\. Single\-handedly orchestrated whole of the frontend for the user\-facing product\. 2\. Engineered a custom architecture with Angular JS and Redux to reduce the bugs and maintenance hassle due to two\-way data bindings\. 3\. Achieved a TAT of 15 mins to deliver class recordings to student’s dashboard using automation scripts and cron jobs\. 4\. Occasionally pitched in backend tasks to help reduce the workload on the team and meet deadlines\.

Pyhton Developer Intern at Startup Labs Infotech Pvt\. Ltd\., Apr 2016 \- Jul 2016 · 4 mos, Jaipur Area, India, Developed an authorization API for an Android App to sync data back and forth the server using Django\. Also prepared, for the new interns, study materials to learn Python and eventually Django\. The main focus of the material was to learn the best practices of writing a Python code\.

## Education

Bachelors in Technology, Computer Science Engineering, JECRC University

Junior College, Science and Mathematics, Pragati International School

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