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Tharun Kumar C

@tharunkumarc

Software Engineer with 2 yoe building backend systems, AI applications & full-stack products. Passionate about scalable systems and startups.

India

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What I'm looking for

I want to build AI-native products end-to-end—owning backend architecture, scalable pipelines, and clean frontends—where I can ship fast, maintain engineering quality, and create real impact with retrieval, automation, and measurable reliability.

I'm a Software Engineer with around 2 years of experience building backend systems, AI-powered applications, and full-stack products. My primary interests are backend engineering, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and developer tools.

Alongside my professional experience, I'm building Lore, an AI-powered institutional memory platform that helps engineering teams retrieve organizational knowledge using LLMs, vector databases, and knowledge graphs. I designed and built the platform end-to-end, including the backend architecture, event-driven ingestion pipeline, AI retrieval system, MCP server, and frontend.

I enjoy taking ownership of products from idea to deployment, learning new technologies quickly, and solving complex engineering challenges. I'm looking for backend, AI, platform, or founding engineer roles where I can build scalable systems, work closely with users, and contribute to impactful products in fast-paced startup environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Founder

Current

Lore

May 2026 - Present (2 months)

Architected Lore, a RAG-based institutional memory platform that unifies GitHub and Notion activity into a single retrieval pipeline with source citations. Built an MCP server and an event-driven ingestion pipeline to sync and embed activity asynchronously for scalable indexing.

RAG Source Citation MCP Servers fastAPI Async RAG PostgreSQL Qdrant Neo4j Embeddings RabbitMQ Python

Current

Associate Software Engineer

Current

Randstad - Merck KGaA

Sep 2024 - Present (1 year 10 months)

Developed responsive landing pages and enterprise UIs using Next.js and TailwindCSS, adding GSAP animations and performance-focused UI patterns. Built secure REST APIs with FastAPI and Node.js, implementing JWT auth and RBAC, and established GitHub Actions CI/CD and pre-commit hooks across multiple projects.