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title: "Ruchir Kulkarni - Software Engineer, AI in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ruchir Kulkarni, Applied AI @ Ema | Technical Strategy & Operations based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, codex, and cursor. Explore public work links including github."
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# Ruchir Kulkarni on Tal

## Headline

Applied AI @ Ema \| Technical Strategy & Operations

## About

My interests lie at the intersection of AI engineering, product and security\. Currently, I build AI products at Ema\. My work spans customer\-facing features for our flagship product Ema\-Next, internal AI systems that automate business operations, and enabling enterprise partners by conducting workshops to build on our platform\. I enjoy solving ambiguous problems that don't fit neatly into a job description\. Outside work, I'm usually building open\-source projects, writing at rKive, or experimenting with the latest AI models\. Always open to chat about AI, startups, engineering or playing a game of tennis\!

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

codex

cursor

## Work experience

Software Engineer, AI at Ema, Jul 2026 \- Present · 2 mos, \- Promoted to Software Engineer, AI \(L3\) within six months of joining Ema\. \- Building customer\-facing product capabilities for Ema Next, Ema's flagship enterprise AI platform, while also developing the shared infrastructure that powers AI\-native product development across the company\. \- Contributed multiple product enhancements used directly by enterprise customers, including designing and building an in\-product feedback system that enables users to raise bugs and feature requests from any screen within Ema Next\. \- Integrated the experience with automated Jira workflows, creating a seamless path from customer feedback to engineering triage and accelerating issue resolution \(SLA resolution: TTFR <5 sec, TTR <2hrs\) \- Working across engineering, product and customer\-facing teams to take ideas from concept to production; owning architecture, implementation and delivery of scalable features that improve both customer experience and developer velocity\. \- Alongside customer\-facing work, building reusable platforms, services and developer tooling that enable teams across Ema to ship AI\-powered products faster while maintaining consistency, reliability and operational excellence\.

AI Engineer, Founder's Office at Ema, Jan 2026 \- Present · 8 mos, \- Working in the CTO's Office to build AI\-native products and solve high\-impact business problems across Finance, People Ops, Enterprise Search, Customer Support, InfoSec and Developer Experience\. \- Designed and shipped production AI products that replaced multiple third\-party workflows with in\-house AI systems; reducing operational costs, decreasing reliance on external SaaS vendors and giving teams AI experiences tailored to how Ema operates as part of the "Ema for Ema" initiative\. \- Worked end\-to\-end across product, engineering and business teams, taking ideas from leadership discussions to production deployments while partnering closely with stakeholders to solve high\-impact operational challenges\. \- Beyond engineering, led technical enablement workshops for Ema's strategic partners, helping their developers build AI agents on the Ema platform\.

Technical Consultant at Calfus Inc\., Sep 2024 \- Jan 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos, Pune District, \- Started my first full\-time job at the intersection of AI engineering and business consulting\. \- Worked directly with customers to understand business problems, designed AI\-powered solutions, built production systems and delivered finance \(cash management\) implementation for multi\-billion dollar enterprise client across multiple BUs\. \- Beyond shipping software, I mentored interns, collaborated across engineering and consulting teams, and learned how to balance technical depth with customer outcomes; an experience that shaped how I approach product development today\.

Software Engineer at CyberMeru Technologies, Jun 2023 \- Aug 2023 · 3 mos, Pune District, \- Built features for an in\-house AI\-first ERP platform spanning Recruitment, Administration and Inventory\. \- Developed AI capabilities for the Recruitment module and experienced what it takes to build production software inside a collaborative engineering team; my first exposure to shipping software in a corporate setting\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University

Higher secondary school certificate \(12th\), Fergusson college

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/ruchirk22

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