PORTFOLIO / 2025
Kunal
@kunatastic
Product Engineer building cool things at the mix of business and engineering doing whatever it takes to make it feel right.
Bangalore
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ReactPythonKotlinFlutterPostgresAWS
Selected Work
2019 — 2025
Senior Product Engineer
Metaforms
August 2025 — Present
- Building an AI-powered document editor that can generate, summarize, edit, and suggest content directly inside a Word-like interface. Used React, Python, and a mix of models.
- Optimized backend editing performance by building a custom three-step search-and-replace system — making edits faster and more reliable.
- Improved the in-house Python orchestrator to handle prompt safety, validation, and context filtering. Reduced jailbreaks and hallucinations with better examples and response checks.
- Led the integration of specialized external knowledge bases to generate richer and more accurate content.
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Product Engineer
Kuddle
May 2023 — August 2025
- Architected and developed the Kuddle Web platform from the ground up using Next.js, leading to a 17% uplift in organic e-commerce orders. Spearheaded SEO improvements, performance optimizations, and implemented security hardening measures including rate limiting, firewall rules, and bot protection.
- Sole owner of the Kuddle Partner App, automating partner payout workflows and integrating real-time dashboards for incentive and penalty tracking. Enhanced background location tracking to detect and prevent disintermediation at scale.
- Led system design and implementation of Nimbus, a configurable, multi-channel messaging engine handling 300K+ communications/month. Developed spam detection and throttling mechanisms to ensure high throughput and minimal bounce/failure rates.
- Built and deployed a Scratch Card gamification engine integrated with core transaction flows, resulting in a 1.7% increase in GMV by boosting repeat user engagement.
FlutterKotlinPostgresAWSBigQueryNext.js
Product Engineer Intern
Kuddle
September 2022 — May 2023
- Designed and implemented a custom Server-Driven UI (SDUI) framework using Dart and Kotlin, enabling dynamic, version-independent UI updates and reducing reliance on app release cycles.
- Re-architected the internal Control Tower system to support real-time appointment status updates (reduced from 30 minutes), improving operational efficiency across 25,000+ monthly appointments.
- Strategized and built the Kuddle Adoption platform to drive mission-aligned user engagement. The platform became the top source of organic traffic and increased average time on Kuddle Social by 14%, directly supporting pet adoption goals.
- Designed a scalable partner-customer referral tracking and incentive system, aligning with growth strategy and enabling measurable, partner-driven user acquisition loops.
FlutterKotlinPostgresAWSNext.js
Open Source Contributor
Open Healthcare Network
January 2022 — August 2022
- Optimized the UI for small to medium screen devices, improving accessibility and usability for 300+ field staff and doctors, resulting in a 22% decrease in form submission errors and smoother field workflows.
- Built a daily service to auto-cancel stale unit tasks on a dev-stage product, reducing manual triaging effort by 40% and accelerating bug identification and resolution during QA cycles.
- Prototyped techniques to analyze and visualize physiological data from 5-para monitor images, enabling early insights from ICU data streams across 50+ ICU rooms in India.
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