PORTFOLIO / 2026

Kunal
@kunatastic

Senior Software Engineer with 4+ years building consumer products and the distributed systems behind them. Currently leading the engineering team at TagMango building BackstagePass, a live platform for creators and their fans.

Bangalore

CURRENTLY

Senior Software Engineer

@TagMango · BackstagePass

March 2026 — Present · Remote

FOCUS

ReactNext.jsNode.jsTypeScriptPythonPostgreSQLAWSTerraformDockerKafkaNestJSReact NativeRedis / BullMQWebSocketsAI AgentsRAG / pgvectorLangfuse

Selected Work

2022 — Present

Senior Software Engineer

TagMango · BackstagePass·Remote

Mar 2026 — Present

Technical Leadership: Led the team building BackstagePass end-to-end, guiding architecture decisions and delivery planning from product requirements through production. Own release reliability and production health for a live platform connecting creators with their fans.
Communication at Scale: Re-architected the notification pipeline from 10 to 3,500+ communications per second, delivering 1M+ personalized emails and push notifications in under five minutes.
AI Engineering: Built an internal autonomous coding agent that takes context from product specs and designers to implement features across the codebase.

TypeScriptNode.jsReactAI Agents

Product Engineer

Metaforms·Bangalore, IN

Aug 2025 — Feb 2026

Infrastructure Modernization: Migrated manual infrastructure to a multi-region AWS architecture using Terraform. Established automated CI/CD pipelines, eliminating manual deployment risks and improving system uptime.
AI Automation: Designed and built an automated survey generation tool for Qualtrics. By using AI agents to handle programming logic, reduced client project setup time from 16 hours to 4 hours (4x efficiency gain).
Technical Leadership: Led the engineering roadmap for the Research Manager platform, collaborating with product teams to streamline questionnaire workflows for enterprise users.

ReactPythonTypeScriptAWSTerraformCI/CDAI

Product Engineer

Kuddle·Bangalore, IN

May 2023 — Aug 2025

Web Performance: Architected the Kuddle web platform using Next.js with Hybrid Rendering (SSR + SSG). Reduced LCP by 1.2s and optimized Core Web Vitals, contributing to a 17% uplift in organic conversions.
Mobile Engineering: Developed the Kuddle Partner App with a focus on battery efficiency. Implemented Geofencing and Activity Recognition to enable reliable background location tracking without draining user devices.
Event-Driven Architecture: Built a notification sync engine using Kafka to handle 300K+ daily events. Implemented intelligent batching to handle traffic bursts and ensure reliable delivery during peak loads.
Revenue Impact: Developed a gamified Scratch Card engine integrated with payment flows, increasing GMV by 1.7% through improved user retention loops.

Next.jsFlutterKotlinPostgreSQLAWSKafka

Product Engineer Intern

Kuddle·Bangalore, IN

Aug 2022 — May 2023

Built a Server-Driven UI (SDUI) system allowing non-technical teams to ship UI updates via JSON configurations, removing engineering bottlenecks for marketing campaigns.
Re-architected the internal Control Tower dashboard using real-time data listeners, reducing operational data latency from 30 minutes to near-instant.
Collaborated with product teams to build the Kuddle Adoption platform, which increased average session time by 14% and drove organic traffic growth.

FlutterKotlinDartPostgreSQLNext.js

Open Source Contributor

Open Healthcare Network·Remote

Jan 2022 — Aug 2022

Improved UI accessibility for a platform used by 300+ healthcare workers, reducing form submission errors by 22% and smoothing field workflows.
Built an automated cleanup service for stale tasks, improving QA efficiency and reducing manual triage time for the dev team.
Implemented an OCR-based pipeline to extract physiological data from ICU monitor feeds, enabling automated remote monitoring across 50+ ICU rooms.

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