Headline

Founder / CEO @ Exemplar.dev | Building AI Harness for Agentic Workflows | ex-CTO (9M users, acquired)

About

Experienced engineering leader and founder specializing in building scalable AI-driven infrastructure and governance solutions. With a proven track record as a CTO scaling platforms to millions of users and managing complex, high-throughput architectures, I now focus on 'Harness Engineering'—creating the control planes necessary for secure, policy-aware AI agent workflows in production environments. My expertise bridges the gap between high-level architectural strategy and technical implementation, consistently delivering robust, cost-efficient, and auditable systems.

Location

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

cursor

deepseek

elevenlabs

gemini

Work experience

Founder / CEO at Exemplar Dev, Nov 2025 - Present · 9 mos, Wyoming, United States, The most capable AI agent is a liability if it has unmonitored write access to your systems. We are pioneering Harness Engineering—the governance and runtime control plane that surrounds the agent. We enforce policy-aware execution, automated circuit breakers, and strict auditability so engineering teams can trust their agents to execute without breaking production. An autonomous agent with write access to production isn't a breakthrough—it's a liability without a harness. We are pioneering Harness Engineering—the governance and runtime control plane that surrounds the agent. We enforce policy-aware execution, automated circuit breakers, and strict audit trails so engineering teams can actually trust their agents to operate safely.

CTO at sharpsell.ai, Jul 2025 - Nov 2025 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Strategic Technology Leadership: Driving the technical vision and roadmap for Sharpsell.ai's Sales Playbook Automation Platform, serving industry-leading enterprises across financial services, insurance, and other sectors AI-Powered Sales Enablement: Architecting intelligent systems that leverage AI and machine learning to deliver personalized sales content, real-time coaching, and dynamic product illustrations to enhance sales performance Platform Scalability & Performance: Ensuring the platform can handle enterprise-scale deployments while maintaining high performance and reliability for mission-critical sales operations Innovation & Product Development: Leading cross-functional teams to develop cutting-edge features that transform how sales teams engage with prospects and close deals in the digital age

Principal Software Engineer at Lowe's India, Mar 2023 - Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I led strategic initiatives to elevate engineering efficiency, platform scalability, and business agility: 🔹 API Management Designed and delivered an in-house API Management Portal using Kong API Gateway, streamlining API governance, onboarding, and lifecycle management at scale. 🔹 Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Architected a self-service Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to enable CI/CD pipelines, software cataloging, ownership discovery, telemetry, observability, and standardized development practices across engineering teams. 🔹 No-Code/Low-Code Workflow Orchestration Built a workflow automation platform using Camunda, empowering business teams to design and run workflows with minimal engineering involvement. 🔹 Data Platform & Tooling Delivered end-to-end data pipelining tools like Segment for reliable data ingestion, transformation, & routing. Developed data visualization and analytics platforms using Apache Superset to improve decision-making across teams. 🔹 Engineering Resilience via Chaos Engineering Spearheaded the implementation of a Chaos Engineering Toolset, proactively identifying system weaknesses & improving service reliability. 🔹 Feature Experimentation at Scale Built an in-house feature flagging and experimentation platform, replacing Adobe Target, to enable progressive rollouts & A/B testing. 🔹 Gen AI for Developer Productivity Built a GenAI RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system using Haystack, Langchain & open-source LLMs. integrated with Confluence, Jira, internal technical documentation, and security policies. The system leverages functional calling to integrate data from telemetry, Snyk for real-time insights and recommendations, improving developer productivity via AI-powered search & conversational tools. 🔹 Scalable Frontend Architecture Designed a reusable React-based frontend framework to support Microfrontend Architecture, enabling faster development and consistent UI patterns across products.

Lead Software Engineer at Lowe's India, Jan 2021 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Leading a team of engineers to build an innovative A/B Testing Platform for Lowe’s, designed to enhance experimentation and data-driven decision-making across the company. 🔹 High-Performance Platform: Leveraging a consistent hashing algorithm and CDN edge workers, our platform executes A/B tests with zero storage, enabling rapid hypothesis testing in real-time. 🔹 Cost Efficiency & Scalability: Built the platform from scratch to directly compete with leading A/B testing tools, replacing third-party vendors and significantly reducing operational costs. 🔹 Real-Time Testing & Seamless Integration: The platform supports real-time A/B testing with plug-and-play SDKs for client, server, and mobile applications, empowering teams to scale experiments with minimal friction.

Founder in Residence at Entrepreneurs First, Aug 2020 - Dec 2020 · 4 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Entrepreneur First is a global talent investor that supports individuals in building technology companies. I joined Entrepreneur First with an idea in the Agritech sector. However, after deeper market research and exploration, I realized that the market size for the solution I envisioned wasn’t as promising as initially anticipated. This experience helped me pivot and refine my approach to identifying high-impact opportunities in technology.

CTO at HalaPlay, Oct 2017 - Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, At Halaplay, I led the development and scaling of a cross-platform mobile app using React Native, growing the platform to millions of users. I managed a lean team of 7 engineers, overseeing daily transactions of $150K+ (Rs. 1 Cr. +). With a registered user base of 9M+ and a 4M MAU, I successfully guided the company through its journey from seed funding to Series A, culminating in a successful acquisition within 3 years. 🔹 Strategic Leadership & Execution Transformed complex technological challenges into clear frameworks and actionable plans, balancing macro-level strategy with micro-level execution to drive impactful outcomes. 🔹 Technology & Architecture Oversight Developed and implemented long-term technological blueprints, while managing company-wide architecture, platform, and data processes. Designed and scaled a Node.js/Fastify-based backend, growing throughput from 4K TPS to 8K+ TPS at peak, and optimized REST APIs using Kubernetes for container orchestration and auto-scaling. Leveraged Apache Spark to build massively scalable ETL pipelines for real-time leaderboard computation across millions of users. 🔹 Innovation & Emerging Technologies Maintained a deep understanding of current and emerging technologies, applying them to enhance platform performance and drive product innovation. Integrated AWS Kinesis and Elasticsearch to power real-time user analytics, enabling near-instant insights into user behavior and in-game performance. 🔹 Cross-Functional Collaboration Collaborated with internal teams across product, design, and operations to ensure seamless integration of technology with business objectives, driving mutually beneficial outcomes. 🔹 Enterprise-Level Design & Systems Architecture Designed enterprise-level system architectures, ensuring scalability, security, and performance as the platform expanded.

Tech Lead at MoEngage, Dec 2014 - Jul 2017 · 2 y 7 mo, Bengaluru

Software Engineer at Junglee Games, Aug 2014 - Nov 2014 · 3 mo, Software engineer

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani