Kunal Kumar Jha

I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 4+ years building consumer products and the distributed systems behind them. I currently lead the engineering team at TagMango building BackstagePass, a live platform for creators and their fans. Based in Bangalore, India.

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Work Experience

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TagMango · BackstagePass

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2026 – Present

Leading a 6-engineer team building BackstagePass, a live-first platform for creators and their fans, and scaling its notification pipeline to 3,500+ messages/sec.

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Metaforms

Product Engineer

Aug 2025 – Feb 2026

Moved infrastructure to multi-region AWS on Terraform and built an AI-agent survey generator for Qualtrics that cut client setup from 16 hours to 4.

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Kuddle (acquired by Vetic)

Founding Engineer

Aug 2022 – Aug 2025

Built the Next.js web platform, the Partner App and a Kafka notification engine handling 300K+ daily events, from early days through the Vetic acquisition.

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Open Healthcare Network

Open Source Contributor

Jan 2022 – Aug 2022

Improved accessibility for a platform used by 300+ healthcare workers and built an OCR pipeline reading ICU monitor feeds across 50+ rooms.

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Procial

Full Stack Engineer Intern

Jun 2021 – Nov 2021

Helped redesign the main website in React and Redux, and single-handedly built push notifications for offline users.