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title: "Vishal Gautam - Vice President of Software Engineering in Pune City | Tal"
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# Vishal Gautam on Tal

## Headline

AI Engineer @Citi

## About

I am an AI practitioner and engineering leader who enjoys taking ambiguous, messy problems and turning them into clear architectures and working products\. I think in systems: how data flows, how decisions get made, how teams collaborate, and how all of that can be improved with AI and thoughtful design\. My work sits where multi‑agent AI, data platforms and user‑centric tools intersect, and I like owning the journey from first sketch to something people rely on every day\. I have a habit of tinkering end‑to‑end—experimenting with new frameworks, wiring up prototypes quickly, and then hardening what works into reliable, scalable solutions\. I stay hands‑on across GenAI workflows, microservices, data pipelines, frontends and cloud, but I’m most interested in how these pieces come together to solve real problems and create leverage for others\. I care deeply about clean abstractions, reusable building blocks and fast feedback loops, and I enjoy mentoring engineers and working with stakeholders to turn complex constraints into simple, evolving systems that keep getting better over time\.

## Location

Pune City

## AI stack

antigravity

opencode

claudecode

## Work experience

Vice President of Software Engineering at Citi, Aug 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Pune District

AVP at Citi, Jan 2024 \- Aug 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Working to build a scalable, high\-performance data lake solution to meet the modern needs of an enterprise big data system\. Working on products that create impact and help achieving success in marketing with digital marketing analytics\. Creating learning portal to improve employee efficiency wit tailored assessment\-based trainings\. Driving teams to success with coordination, solutions design and client management\.

Senior Software Developer at Citi, Jan 2022 \- Dec 2023 · 2 yrs, Pune Area, India, Created applications and framework for implementations with Low Code tools to reduce tech development costs and improve turnaround times\. Designed products for client onboarding lifecycle management with Dextcloud\. Created microservice based generic architecture over Cloud based distributed deployments forming a core member of the API and UI design team\. Worked on various microservice development and system integration with external and BigData systems\. Lead development of several business critical, scalable and efficient solutions for improving the business workflow\. Mentored new joiners and managed teams\. Donned the hat of business analysis with close interactions with vendors for product acquisition or service providers\. Building distributed caching solutions on top of the big data systems\.

Machine Learning Researcher at Samsung R&D Institute India, Jun 2017 \- Aug 2017 · 3 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Completed a POC with NLP, for the improvement in the emotional quotient understanding of the Bixby chatbot integrated with the Samsung devices\.

Android Developer at SportsCult Services Private Limited, Feb 2017 \- May 2017 · 4 mos, New Delhi Area, India, Developed 2 production ready android applications which were later used for organizing sports events across the city\. The app enabled matches to be organized across school grounds giving good infrastructure for sports to everyone\. The second app was used by the people enrolled in Sportscult which included daily activity scheduling, tracking etc\.

Software Engineer at Indian Railways, Nov 2016 \- Jan 2017 · 3 mos, Dhanbad, \- Built a full‑stack Android app in Java using Firebase Firestore, Realtime Database and Authentication to digitalise inventory and attendance for a \~200‑person team, replacing manual paper‑based workflows\. \- Modelled equipment and staff flows so departments could track where devices were issued, prioritise critical equipment by train type and automatically remind users to return items on time\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Delhi College of Engineering

## Public links

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

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