kAIgentic
Software Engineer II | Platform · Bengaluru, India
Platform Team.
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Software Engineer II · kAIgentic
I engineer backend systems and internal platforms that reduce operational complexity, improve reliability, and help teams ship with confidence.
Selected engineering work · Atlan
Blackbird is a declarative configuration-management system built for a fleet of customer tenant clusters.
01 · The problem
Temporary on-call changes drifted across 800–1,000 tenant clusters. Teams could not reliably distinguish actual state from intended state.
02 · What I designed
A Go and Temporal-powered reconciliation system: scheduled drift detection, idempotent remediation, and a declarative source of truth.
03 · What changed
20–30 services now use Blackbird as their configuration source of truth, and config-drift P0 outages were eliminated across the fleet.
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Software Engineer II | Platform · Bengaluru, India
Platform Team.
System scale
Outcomes
Software Engineer | Platform · Bengaluru, India
Series C data collaboration platform (data catalog) serving enterprise customers globally. Platform Services team owns internal infrastructure, developer tooling, and production reliability for every engineering team.
System scale
600+ production tenants. 800-1000 customer tenant clusters. Multi-service Kubernetes deployment.
Outcomes
Backend Engineer · Bengaluru, India
Seed-stage smart link generator for creators. The platform redirects in-app browser traffic to native apps (YouTube, Instagram, Telegram).
System scale
1-5 million daily hits on the core redirection system.
Outcomes
Founding Software Engineer · Remote, India
Bootstrapped EdTech startup. First and sole engineer for two years, working part-time through college.
System scale
Greenfield. Zero existing infrastructure, codebase, or product.
Outcomes
Selected backend systems
Three production-minded systems shaped around state ownership, authorization, durable workflows, and operational recovery.
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Multi-tenant commerce and cloud-lab orchestration
Designed the backend for a production telecom learning platform: multi-tenant organization membership, course commerce, protected-content entitlements, quizzes, certificates, and dual-currency Stripe payments. Built an on-demand lab control plane that provisions isolated AWS EC2 and Free5GC environments, meters usage by minute, and reclaims idle capacity.
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Collaborative state, authorization, and task ordering
Built the application backend for collaborative workspaces, role-aware membership, invitations, boards, lists, and ranked tasks. Type-safe tRPC APIs sit over a relational Prisma and Neon Postgres model, with session and passkey authentication plus Redis-backed coordination.
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Event-driven dispatch and durable workflow orchestration
Engineered an event-driven delivery backend around explicit state ownership and durable execution. PostgreSQL records authoritative booking transitions; a transactional outbox and Kafka publish committed facts; Temporal coordinates driver matching and timeouts; Redis handles geo-discovery and expiring reservations without becoming the source of truth.
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In their words
“Working with Vishal gives you a front-row seat to modern engineering velocity. As a genuinely AI-native engineer, he translates complex requirements into robust backend solutions faster than almost anyone I’ve worked with. Vishal’s ultimate superpower is the rare combination of blistering speed and absolute dependability. His obsession with velocity allows him to clear platform bottlenecks and keep delivery moving at an unmatched pace, yet this rapid execution never comes at the expense of system integrity. Having him on the team brings immediate peace of mind—he is a high-velocity force multiplier who simply gets things done, and gets them done right.”
Senior Software Engineer
Atlan
“I had the opportunity to work with Vishal at OpeninApp, where he worked as a Backend Engineer. He made strong contributions across multiple backend initiatives, particularly in database optimization and building ETL pipelines for large-scale log analysis. His work helped improve database performance, streamline data processing, and make logs more accessible for analysis and debugging. He demonstrated a solid understanding of backend systems, databases, and data pipelines while consistently approaching technical problems with a practical mindset. Vishal was also collaborative and dependable, making it easy to work together across different engineering tasks and solve problems effectively as a team.”
Software Engineer
Zamp
“I highly recommend Vishal Kumar for his exceptional intelligence and expertise in cloud technologies. He is a true problem solver with a solid understanding of scaling systems. If you're looking for someone capable of tackling complex technical challenges, Vishal is the right choice.”
DevOps & Platform Engineer
Hybrid Cloud | MLOps & AI Infrastructure
“Vishal is a detail oriented, hard working individual with a knack for simplifying complex codebases and automating repetitive tasks. I have worked on a project with Vishal and it was a pleasure working with him. He has in depth knowledge of his skill and his codebases. He would be a very valuable asset to any organisation.”
Software Engineer, Data Platform
Myntra
“It is quite rare when we come across a great engineer like Vishal, who not only understands the requirement of a client but also delivers beyond expectations. He has great combination of technical expertise, team collaboration and business acumen. His contentiousness is second to none. His contribution to enable a learning platform in telecom industry is remarkable. Thanks Vishal !!”
Head - Radio Access & Transport Network
Airtel-Vodafone / Itelcotech
“Vishal is a go-getter. At Relecture, he built the entire tech infrastructure from the ground up. He possesses great problem-solving skills along with the right attitude to work in ambiguous situations. Vishal will be a great addition to any organisation.”
Entrepreneur in Residence at Antler | 2x Founder
Relecture
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