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title: "Sushant Kumar - Founding Engineer in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Sushant Kumar, 👋Open for Work | ex-CTO/Founding Engineer @ X.Tax - IRS Authorized E-Filing Provider based in Hyderabad. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/sushant-kumar-4/share-image"
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# Sushant Kumar on Tal

## Headline

👋Open for Work \| ex\-CTO/Founding Engineer @ X\.Tax \- IRS Authorized E\-Filing Provider

## About

Open for new opportunities \-\-\- Recently served as a CTO / Founding Engineer at X\.Tax \(An IRS approved AI tax filing platform\)\. \-\-\-\- Previously: 🚀 Full\-stack Developer & AI SaaS Founder with a proven track record of building and scaling digital products that drive real business results\. I've successfully founded and scaled SynchroWork from concept to acquisition, generating revenue in just 3 months while onboarding 160\+ users\. Previously served as SDE 2 at Decathlon Sports India, I had contributed to features that serve millions of customers on one of India's leading sports retail platforms\. What I bring to the table: ✅ Product Strategy & Execution: Led SynchroWork from ideation to MVP in 3 months with a 3\-person team, implementing full\-stack architecture and CI/CD pipelines ✅ AI Integration Expertise: Delivered 5\+ AI SaaS applications across diverse niches \(Legal Tech, Tax Solutions, Business Analytics\) through VIVID MYND ✅ E\-commerce Growth: Enhanced Decathlon\.in user experience through new product pages, wishlist optimization, BNPL integration, wallet implementation, sporty rewards and quick commerce implementations\. ✅ Technical Leadership: Full\-stack expertise in MERN, Next\.js, Docker, and cloud infrastructure with focus on scalable, secure solutions

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

langgraph

mistral

opencode

## Work experience

Founding Engineer at X\.TAX, INC, Dec 2025 \- Oct 2026 · 10 mo, Hyderabad, Been a part of X\.Tax Inc since inception\. Contract Engineer → CTO / Founding Engineer\. 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: \- Cross domain architecture: Frontend, Backend, ETL pipeline, complex JSON ⟷ XML mappings\. \- Architected and launched internal npm package for common data validation library with AWS Code Artifact\. This helped reduce up\-to 90% mismatch in API contracts across multiple services\. \- Launched the Developer API Portal\. \- Architected the tools and use cases for the MCP server\.

SDE 2 at Decathlon Digital, Jan 2022 \- Nov 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Working on enhancing and building user interface for decathlon\.in website\. Some of my major contribution includes: 2025 \- New Gallery UI \- Quick Commerce and 3 step checkout 2023 \- 2024 \- Decathlon Wallet \- Decathlon Sporty Rewards 2022 \- 2023 \- New product page implementation \- Migration from SCSS to Tailwind CSS\. \- Building Wishlist feature, further enhancing it for speed\. \- Implemented Buy Now Pay Later in payment page\. \- Migrating frontend APIs to use Decathlon centralized authentication \(named DKT\)\.

Founder at SynchroWork, Apr 2021 \- Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \[Acquired 🙌🏻\] SynchroWork is an all in one management tool for digital agencies & freelancers\. It brings the major daily use tools like invoicing, project management, client & team management, expenses management, AI proposal generator, etc\. under a single hood\. Result? Saving time, Saving money\. 𝐌𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: \#Product: 1\. Ideation of the product \- SynchroWork agency portal and client portal\. 2\. Built the product roadmap before proceeding to the design and development steps\. 3\. Converted ideas to MVP in 3 months with 3 people\. \#People: 1\. Formed a team of 3 people 1 UI designer, 1 Frontend developer & Myself :\)\. 2\. Built a process to be followed from ideation to implementation\. \#Technology: 1\. Chosen the technology stack: Node, React, Next JS, MongoDB, Ubuntu, Docker & GitHub\. 2\. Built the frontend architecture and defined a standard, so that it comprises of re\-usable components and is scalable\. 3\. Worked on the backend architecture, security and speed of the APIs \- implemented JWT tokens for security, for optimised queries I used MongoDB aggregate pipelines & indexing\. 4\. Setup a CI/CD pipeline which uses GitHub actions, Docker and an Ubuntu Server\. 5\. Ubuntu server setup, includes domain linking, SSL implementation, docker setup, MongoDB setup, security & basic firewall setup, worked on cron jobs as well\. \#Business \(experiments, experiments, experiments\!\): 1\. Cost optimisation: For small start chosen a low cost \(\~2\.79 Euro\), but effective server and the architecture is such that it can be scaled to different VPS providers overnight\. 2\. Onboarded 160\+ users in 3 months\. 3\. Generated $700\+ revenue in 3 months\.

Experience Developer \- Kitsune Team at NowFloats, Dec 2019 \- Apr 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, Kitsune focuses mainly on Enterprise customers to provide cloud based serverless infrastructure solutions and applications\. • Worked with clients like Edenred, Care Health Insurance, Informatics India Ltd and India Shelter\. • Worked on HSBC Credit Card Rewards website & CMS using React, SQL server, Node JS, Express • Implemented and contributed in enhancing the application speed using kit\-proxy an in house proxy solution\.

Software Developer \- Product team at NowFloats, Jun 2019 \- Apr 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, Product Development \- NowFloats Boost Web

Frontend Web Developer \(Intern\) at NowFloats, Dec 2018 \- Jun 2019 · 7 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, • Working on NowFloats' Boost for web\. • Landing pages for marketing team using Kitsune\.

Founder at VIVID MYND, Apr 2015 \- Nov 2025 · 10 yrs 8 mos, India, Delivered websites and design till 2023 for various clients across the globe\. Since 2024: \- Vivid Mynd now only focuses on developing AI SaaS\. \- Delivered 5\+ AI apps across multiple niche \(Indian Legal, US Taxes, Content Curation, Business Analytics\)

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Electronics and Telecommunications, KIIT \- Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Intermediate, PCM, Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Bokaro Steel City

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