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title: "Vinod Tahelyani - Co-founder & Head of Engineering in Bangalore Urban | Tal"
description: "Meet Vinod Tahelyani, Building AI Contact Book based in Bangalore Urban. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and langchain. Explore public work links including github."
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# Vinod Tahelyani on Tal

## Headline

Building AI Contact Book

## About

An engineer who knows how to build usable software, keeping business in context\. Also, allergic to mediocrity\.

## Location

Bangalore Urban

## AI stack

claude code

claude

langchain

langgraph

notion

openai

## Work experience

Co\-founder & Head of Engineering at ConnectMachine, Nov 2025 \- Present · 11 mos

Lead Engineer at KaneAI at TestMu AI, Nov 2023 \- Jul 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, On\-site, Spearheaded end\-to\-end product development, from engineering to pre\-sales enablement, driving KaneAI's growth to $600K ARR\. Designed & developed an in\-house AI\-native evaluation framework, reducing release cycles by 66% from 6 hours to 2 hours\. Engineered distributed systems for next\-gen web and mobile AI testing agents, enabling scalable and reliable AI\-driven testing Contributed end\-to\-end—from product engineering to pre\-sales enablement—to scale KaneAI to $600K ARR\.

Senior Member of Technical Staff at TestMu AI, Apr 2022 \- Nov 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos, On\-site, \- Day 2 day Work involves scaling and stablising automation and manual testing platforms, doing POCs, addressing customer calls, solving their onboarding issues, understanding their side of the story & unblocking deals\. \- Revamped android automation testing platform to scale for 6 hrs long test with less than 0\.1% failure\. \- Building tools and processes for customer facing teams, to help them in triage at L1\. \- Built new features for Real Device platform like pre signed accounts, network logs capture, live stream device logs, etc\.

Software Engineer at TestMu AI, Sep 2021 \- Apr 2022 · 8 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, \- Built CRUD apis for Real Device Manual Testing from scratch\. \- Did multiple POCs & built features for Manual Testing like accessing device clipboard remotely, changing network and device configurations, etc\. \- Built live streaming & interaction solution for real android devices using WebRTC and websockets\. \- Attend customer calls understand and solve their use case and build new solution for same\.

Software Engineer at AppDynamics, Jun 2020 \- Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Worked on automation of AppDynamics Java and Node\.js Agents, and C\+\+ SDK\. \- Built frameworks and mocks for component testing for AppDynamics Java Agent\. \- Built an automated testing framework for Appdynamics microservices and C\+\+ SDK\.

Software Engineer at AppDynamics, Dec 2019 \- May 2020 · 6 mos, Banglore, \- Built an automated system, to detect and certify new JDKs and java frameworks releases, compatible with AppDynamics Java Agent \- Built POC of component testing framework for Java Agent\.

Web Developer at Orcaso, May 2018 \- Jun 2018 · 2 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, \- Worked as FrontEnd Developer, helped in building UI using Angular 2\+

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Information Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology

## Public links

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

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