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

AI governance platform — a controlled desktop browser + analytics dashboard helping organisations measure and govern LLM usage. Core team. CTO collaboration.

  • Built the core data capture engine using Chrome DevTools Protocol — LLM conversations intercepted, processed through a four-stage classification pipeline, stored to MongoDB
  • Engineered tabbed session architecture with isolated per-tab session partitions and full state preservation on switch
  • Cut release cycle from 30–45 min to 13 min via shell scripts + GitHub Actions CI/CD
  • Config-driven AI provider runtime — ChatGPT, Claude, Meta AI onboarded via JSON config; MVP shipped before deadline
ElectronJS Node.js CDP AWS GitHub Actions MongoDB

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.

  • Replaced manual OTP login with device UUID + hashed org token via Auth0 — silent MDM deployment to thousands of devices simultaneously across Jamf, JumpCloud, Kandji, Intune
  • Cut customer MTTR from ~6 hours to 15–30 min by building a diagnostics window with exportable logs and a cache-flushing force-restart that re-authenticated via Auth0 cleanly
  • Cross-platform agent delivery — macOS, Windows, Ubuntu; PouchDB as local event store with Kinesis stream sync
ElectronJS osquery PouchDB AWS Kinesis Auth0 MDM

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.

  • Built entire platform solo — PHP/MySQL/jQuery backend, DB, and frontend — later architecting two full migrations to REST API and React PWA
  • Operated as sole technical decision-maker in a zero-resource environment; hired and mentored three interns
  • Selected from 700+ applicants at iCreate Ahmedabad — presented to industry leaders, underwent structured product mentorship
PHP MySQL React PWA REST API

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.

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.