Praveen Kumar — Platform & Systems Engineer

Every component
must earn its place.

I build systems from first principles.
Before I write a line of code, I ask why the component exists —
and what happens to the whole if it doesn't.

8+ years building
~1M events/day shipped
6→ hours to 15 min MTTR
700+ iCreate applicants, selected

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Selected work

2024 — 2025

Taho by Opnbook

Platform Engineer

Orgs were spending on AI with zero visibility — which team, which tool, for what purpose. Built the data layer that changed that.

  • Enabled org-level AI investment decisions — admins could see whether AI was doing the work of two people in a dept, and act: reallocate, upskill, or cut spend accordingly
  • Built rubric classification pipeline that converted raw LLM conversations into business-readable intent — engineering, product planning, finance, compliance — giving leadership actual context, not just usage counts
  • Reduced LLM platform onboarding from days of integration work to 3 lines of config — any new AI tool the org adopted was live in the workspace immediately
  • Privacy-first capture by design — only first 10-15 exchanges, no PII, no fingerprinting — made enterprise adoption viable without legal friction
ElectronJS Node.js CDP AWS GitHub Actions Postgres

2022 — 2024

Zluri

Agent Systems Engineer

SaaS management platform — enterprises were paying for tools employees never used. Built the agents that made usage visible across 20+ enterprise orgs like Monday.com, Razorpay, powering Zluri's core product value.

  • Eliminated manual MDM onboarding friction — silent device auth via UUID and hashed org token meant thousands of employee devices enrolled without a single manual login, reducing IT ops load significantly
  • Recovered enterprise customer trust faster — diagnostics window with exportable logs cut MTTR from ~6 hours to 15 min, reducing escalations and preventing churn at the account level
  • Gave IT admins org-wide software visibility — app versions, usage time, CPU and memory per device streamed at ~1M events/day, enabling remote update triggers across entire orgs without manual audits
ElectronJS osquery PouchDB AWS Kinesis Auth0 MDM

2017 — 2020

Talspo

Technical Co-founder

Hyper-local talent discovery — built to solve a real access problem: finding a human teacher near you for any skill, without going through institutions. Built everything alone.

  • Took a zero-resource startup from idea to live product — built backend, database, and frontend solo, then led two full architectural migrations as the product scaled and requirements changed
  • Operated as sole technical decision-maker with no playbook — hired and mentored three interns, maintained product continuity while learning and building simultaneously
  • Validated the idea at national level — selected from 700+ applicants at iCreate Ahmedabad, presented to industry leaders, underwent structured product mentorship
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Origin

I didn't come from a CS degree.
I came from curiosity.

Started with HTML at 13. Spent years building things before I knew what "software engineering" meant. Co-founded a startup at 20, built the entire stack solo, got selected from 700 applicants at a national incubator.

Engineering, to me, is not a credential. It is a native human capacity — the same one that built aqueducts, calculated orbital mechanics by hand, and designed structures that stood for millennia without computers.

I try to live by the Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it well. Every system I touch, I ask — does every part earn its place?

2015

First line of HTML

Found out games are made with code. Never stopped.

2017

Co-founded Talspo

Built hyper-local talent discovery platform solo from scratch.

2019

iCreate Ahmedabad

Selected from 700+ applicants. Presented to industry leaders.

2022

Core Platform engineering at Zluri

Owned desktop + browser agents. ~1M events/day to Kinesis.

2024

Core team at Opnbook

Built AI governance platform. Collaborated directly with CTO.

Now

Open to product companies

India or remote. High stakes. Systems worth building carefully.

If the stakes are real,
let's build something.

Looking for product companies — India or remote — where the engineering problems are worth solving carefully. Not chasing titles. Chasing systems that matter.