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TARUN KUNDHIYA

@tarunkundhiya

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Engineering Head leading distributed systems and GenAI delivery with 10+ years’ impact.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead engineering and GenAI delivery—owning architecture and delivery, mentoring teams, and building scalable products with strong DevOps/CI/CD and measurable client impact.

I’m an Engineering Head with 10+ years of experience designing distributed systems and leading teams to deliver end-to-end products. I’ve led multiple AI-driven initiatives across diverse technology stacks, with a focus on scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient outcomes.

In senior leadership roles, I’ve owned GenAI engineering architecture, delivery, DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines—while staying deeply involved in mentoring engineering teams and client-facing discussions. I delivered an AI-based video creation platform that reduced creation cost by 92% and secured a $10K GCP credit grant.

I’m also hands-on at the platform level: I’ve architected LLM-powered pipelines, built microservices and internal tools using SRE practices, and improved observability and performance. Highlights include cutting AWS billing by $290/month, increasing onboarding and revenue by 10%, driving cohort growth from 250 to 300, and launching an Android app from scratch that reached 1K installs in the first month.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Technical Interviewer

Current

IIT Delhi

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Conducted standardized technical interviews for backend roles and provided consistent feedback to candidates. Developed a bank of 50+ real-world problem questions and a lightweight anti-cheating framework for live assessments.

Technical Interviewing System Design Candidate Assessments Cheating Detection

Head of GenAI Engineering

Madgical Techdom

Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 (1 year)

Led company-wide GenAI initiatives, owning architecture, delivery, DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines while mentoring engineers and supporting client-facing technical discussions. Delivered an AI video creation platform that reduced creation cost by 92% and secured a $10K GCP credit grant.

Generative AI AWS Microservices DevOps CI CD Architecture Design Mentorship Client Delivery Data Pipelines

Acting Engineering Head

Madgical Techdom

Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 year)

Directed engineering, DevOps, and product delivery while organizing internal hackathons and collaborating with product, sales, and operations. Improved LMS v3, increasing average cohort size from 250 to 300, and reduced AWS billing by $290/month via EC2/S3 cost optimization and Grafana-based observability.

Engineering Leadership AWS EC2 AWS S3 Grafana Observability Microservices CI CD Performance Optimization

VP of Engineering

Krishify

Jan 2021 - Jan 2023 (2 years)

Led engineering teams and defined the DevOps roadmap to deliver scalable, high-impact products and monetization initiatives. Built a web suite for near real-time market intelligence for 200+ agri-businesses and implemented in-app payments/wallet and coupon flows that increased agri-input purchases by 40%.

Engineering Leadership Jenkins Kubernetes CI CD Web Applications Payments Monetization

Senior Backend Engineer

Chegg

Jan 2016 - Jan 2021 (5 years)

Built and managed microservices and internal tools, improving data accessibility while championing SRE practices and engineering culture. Implemented OCR and AI/LLM services, including an OCR pipeline making 80%+ ingested data searchable and an AI chat platform processing up to 40K RPM.

Microservices API Development SRE OCR Pipelines Data Processing Performance Tuning Internal Tooling

Android Developer

IPROF Labs

Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 (1 year)

Developed Android applications focused on performance and clean user experience. Reduced app size by 8 MB through removal of unused resources and integrated payment workflows and Google Analytics, contributing 6–7% organic revenue in the first year.

Android Development Analytics