Praveen Kumar — Platform & Systems Engineer
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.
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Selected work
2024 — 2025
Taho by Opnbook
Platform Engineer
AI governance platform — a controlled desktop browser + analytics dashboard helping organisations measure and govern LLM usage. Core team. CTO collaboration.
2022 — 2024
Zluri
Agent Systems Engineer
SaaS spend intelligence platform. Owned both desktop and browser agents — silent background processes streaming ~1M events/day to AWS Kinesis across 20 enterprise orgs including monday.com and Saltpay.
2017 — 2020
Talspo
Technical Co-founder
Hyper-local talent discovery — find a human teacher near you for any skill, via maps UI. Built solo from scratch. Selected from 700+ applicants at iCreate Ahmedabad, 2019.
Technical writing
01
How I built a browser with Electron
Building a controlled desktop browser from scratch — architecture decisions, WebView management, and session isolation.
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02
Breaking the web carefully — request interception
How Chrome DevTools Protocol lets you intercept network requests and what you can do with the data you capture.
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03
WebView to database — building a reliable pipeline
The full data journey from intercepted LLM conversations to structured storage — sanitisation, normalisation, deduplication, classification.
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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
Joined Zluri via Akrity
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.
Looking for product companies — India or remote — where the engineering problems are worth solving carefully. Not chasing titles. Chasing systems that matter.