Headline

Software Architect @ DriveX · I ship AI agents to production · Building 0→1 consumer products in mobility

About

I build AI-native consumer products from zero to one and the engineering teams that ship them. I'm currently Software Architect at DriveX, where I've gone Tech Lead → Engineering Manager → Architect over 2 years. I led consumer engineering across four products: a consumer website, a dealer management app, a C2C marketplace (DriveX Direct), and Dealzzz — India's first vehicle auction platform that runs entirely on WhatsApp. Things I've shipped at DriveX: • Dealzzz — 300+ dealers, 40K+ bids placed, multilingual conversational-AI bidding replacing manual procurement. • DriveX Direct — built the C2C marketplace from scratch with escrow, KYC, AI-based QC, and seller monetization on day one. • An internal AI/data platform suite — Atlas (warehouse), VOC (AI call analytics), Cerebro (agentic internal-data chat), Pulse (multi-agent content generation), Ticker (inventory planning), and Pluto (GPU video generation). • Scaled the engineering team and built a low-attrition culture over 2 years. Outside of work, I ship side projects as a practice — 14+ so far. Most recent: IdeaMaze, a framework for autonomous AI research agents. What I'm interested in talking about: • Architecting AI-agent systems that survive production • Going 0 → 1 inside a larger org without losing velocity • The IC ↔ manager ↔ architect path (and when not to take it) • Engineering culture in early/mid-stage startups Open to: advising AI/consumer-product startups, founding-team chats, and conversations with other builders shipping in public. · rohitagarwal.dev · rohitagarwal.dev@gmail.com

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

aistudio

gemini

langchain

openai

Work experience

Software Architect at DriveX, Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos, Bengaluru

Engineering Manager at DriveX, Oct 2024 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru

Engineering Lead at DriveX, Feb 2024 - Sep 2024 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at Clootrack, Aug 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at Reward360 Global Services Pvt Ltd., Dec 2020 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at Epic.one, Aug 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Data Scientist at Xelpmoc Design & Tech, Jun 2018 - May 2019 · 1 yr, Kolkata Area, India

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Heritage Institute of Technology

Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Science, Free Code Camp