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The Startup Engineering Architect | Agentic Product Engineering | Ex-Founder (6Cr ARR)

About

Founded a startup. Scaled to 45 people and 6 Cr revenue. Made every architecture mistake in the book — and documentin what actually works. Now I'm a 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 building Gen AI-powered SaaS with a 14-member team. Still in the trenches. Still shipping. I created 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 to help startup leaders — founders, CTOs, architects — make the technical decisions that determine whether their product scales or stalls. My current focus: 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 — helping small startup teams build like large ones using AI agents across the development lifecycle. What I bring: 20 years product engineering. 5 years as a startup founder. 4 years building production AI. And the scars to prove all of it. → Newsletter: startupengineering.io → Topics: Agentic Software Development workflows, AI-first architecture, scaling with small teams, real engineering tradeoffs Building a startup? Follow along. I teach from the trenches.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

Work experience

Principal Technical Architect at Mintmesh Corporation, Oct 2024 - Present · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid, Leading 14 member AI Engineering team providing technical leadership, aligning with CTO and Product Team • Improved accuracy from 𝟲𝟬% 𝘁𝗼 𝟴𝟱% - CoT , few shot prompting, fine tuning, source citation • Engineered LLM orchestrator achieving 𝟱𝟬 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗣𝗠 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 via intelligent LLM endpoints pooling • Built 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗔𝗣𝗜 𝗾𝘂𝗼𝘁𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 ensuring fair allocation across tenants , achieving 90% utilization • Implemented 𝗳𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁-𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 mechanism achieving 99% LLM API request success rates • Reduced 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝟱𝗫 through Query batching, multi-modal routing, fine tuning • Designed 𝗔𝗜 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 - Grafana , Loki, OpenTelemetry, Tempo reducing MTTR from 4 hrs to 10 min

Senior Technical Architect at Mintmesh Corporation, Oct 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid, • Lead the design and implementation of AI systems to align with business objectives. • Transitioned legacy AI stack to 𝗚𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝟴 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 - Secured CXO approval, mentored team • Implemented production grade information extraction AI project • Reduced 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝟲𝟬% using design patterns - Paralleization, Orchestrator-workers • Architected AI system with multi-model orchestration, grounding techniques.

Founder & CEO at Naanal, Aug 2016 - Sep 2021 · 5 yrs 2 mos, Greater Chennai Area, • Founded SaaS startup from ground up to 45 members, scaling from 𝟬 𝘁𝗼 𝟲 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗜𝗡𝗥 Annual Revenue • Technical Leader for 30 member Engineering team that developed Shipment Management SaaS • Designed 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 considering 50+ params improving 𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝟯𝟬% • Saved proof-of-delivery processing time by 15% using Intelligent 𝗢𝗖𝗥 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 with Google Vision API • Reduced shipment tracking 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 via API integration across client/logistics systems • Architected 𝗦𝗮𝗮𝗦 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟭 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 monthly with 99.9% uptime • Devised anomaly detection engine enabling immediate customer service intervention, 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝟰𝟬%

Staff Software Engineer at Brocade, Jan 2013 - Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 7 mos, San Jose, California, United States, • Designed and Developed Software Features for Application Delivery Controller (ADC) • Redesigned Control plane using Event-driven model - Semaphores, Queues, Multithreading • Prototyped CentOS based Virtual Load Balancer App compatible with KVM, ESXi, Virtual Box • Architected Virtual LB using Intel DPDK that improved performance from 1 Gbps to 160 Gbps • Led POC successfully for Brocade-VMware VXLAN gateway Solution in VMworld 2012

Software Engineer at Brocade, Feb 2010 - Jan 2013 · 3 yrs, San Jose, California, United States, • Designed and Developed Software Features for Application Load Balancer Product • Collaborated with VMware, Solutions architect, Marketing team and lead an Engineering effort to deliver VXLAN demo at VMworld 2012 conference. • Designed multi-tenant control application – packet I/O, timer, interrupts • Improved control plane health check packet I/O performance by 4 times

Graduate Research Assistant at North Carolina State University, May 2009 - Feb 2010 · 10 mos, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, • Worked in Web Traffic Pattern Analysis for Cisco Project under Dr.Michael Devitsikiotis • Built a High Performance Network Data capturing Tool to help design Statistical model • Modified Appmon code to develop customized monitoring tools for NCSU • Enhanced sniffing rate by integrating Appmon with PF_RING architecture • Outcome of the project is to build Efficient and Capable Next generation Router

Lead Engineer at HCL Technologies, Jun 2007 - Jul 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, • Developed IPv4, QoS, modules for Juniper’s Mobile Backhaul Router Product • Enhanced Montavista Linux Kernel driver to interface host OS with forwarding plane. • Developed Prototype application within 2 months collaborating with Hardware Vendor • Worked closely with Hardware, Firmware, Remote Client Teams to accomplish tasks

Member Technical Staff at HCL Technologies, Jun 2005 - May 2007 · 2 yrs, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, • Developed Firewall, NAT modules, proxies for Residential Gateway product • Ported FTP/IGMP proxy to PMC ’s Multi-threaded Multi-core processor • Optimized and integrated proprietary IPSec driver with Linux TCP/IP stack • Received client’s appreciation for optimization and fixing critical issues. • Worked closely with Firmware, Platform, QA teams to accomplish tasks

Education

M.S, Computer Networking, North Carolina State University

B.E, Electronics and Communication, Government College of Technology