Hi, I'm Kunal.


I'm a software engineer with 5+ years of professional experience. I build and ship full-stack products for startups - from AI features to scalable infrastructure.


My technical skills include:


Feel free to contact me via email at hi@literal.systems or on LinkedIn.

08'25 – ㅤNOW
(Redacted) Government SaaS
Building an AI-native workspace for US local government departments.
Created AI assistants for emails, research and data analysis.
Created a crawler for multiple data sources (Google Drive, Gmail, Zendesk etc.) with support for partial updates.
Setup K8s with AWS EKS for orchestrating multiple GPU-native services.
Made an OCR pipeline to parse TBs of documents (PDFs, spreadsheets etc.) to text for better RAG.
Implemented all infrastructure and IT changes required for SOC2 certification.
11'25 – 01'26
Aqlia EdTech SaaS
Built an AI-powered LMS (learning management system) for institutes.
Developed AI quiz generation from topics and reference materials.
Created an AI chatbot grounded in uploaded course materials.
Built batch and classroom management for organizing students and tracking attendance.
03'24 – 04'24
Apache DataFusion Databases
Contributed to Apache’s extensible SQL query engine.
Migrated mathematical functions to datafusion-functions module with macro-based refactoring.
Implemented the ‘AT TIME ZONE’ clause for temporal queries.
Refactored COPY command to streamline format options handling.
See commits .
07'23 – 07'25
ImageKit Media Infrastructure SaaS
Implemented AI-powered image editing features for background removal, scene change, and captioning.
Designed a fair scheduler with intermediate checkpoints for cost-sensitive jobs.
Built a scalable audit log system with Kafka streaming, Elasticsearch indexing, and AWS S3-based recovery.
Authored the top-ranked article on Google for React video optimization as part of a technical writing hackathon.
07'21 – 02'23
Netlify Developer Tools
Worked on Netlify’s open-source CLI (40K+ weekly downloads).
Added new command flags and output formats for the dev server and env management.
Fixed bugs affecting redirects and deployment workflows that impacted DX.
See commits .
09'20 – 04'23
Verak (YC W21) FinTech Insurance
First engineer. Hired and mentored the rest of our engineering team.
Led the backend team to build internal tooling for selling business insurance.
Built an in-house CRM and rule engine for policies.
Created the initial component library for the app in Storybook.
08'20 – 09'20
Mosaic Wellness Healthcare E-Commerce
Made a platform for telemedicine scheduling and patient management.
Migrated the core analytics dashboard from Retool to React.
04'20 – 05'20
Contributed to the component library.
See commits .
03'20 – 04'20
Covid India Healthcare
Worked on data visualisation and charts for mapping cases and displaying trends.
Created a WhatsApp chatbot using Node.js to get location-wise helpline info, symptoms, and precautions.