Software Wizard
Chakradar
Raju.
“My code is my art.”
I build real-time backend systems and data pipelines that hold up under scale. Currently building AI agents at Genera. Previously Founding Engineer at Wingman (YC S19, acquired by Clari), and Google Knowledge Graph and Maps. Electronics, NIT Trichy · 2012.
Engineer by training, craftsman by habit.
Electronics graduate from NIT Trichy, software engineer by passion. I've been obsessed with building software since I was 14 — I consider myself very lucky that the world pays handsomely for what I enjoy building.
Currently a Founding Engineer at Genera, building voice and text AI agents for the deployment of new-age enterprise software products. Before that I spent a year (Sep'24 – Aug'25) chasing my own ideas — a mobile app connecting people by interest, a legal-tech model extracting structure from unstructured Supreme Court judgements, and an OOH ad platform for dynamic commercial-space advertising.
Earlier, I joined Wingman (YC S19) as a Founding Engineer and built a significant portion of its backend and engineering team. After Clari's acquisition I helped onboard enterprise customers and grow the team into late-stage startup processes.
Before Wingman I built web services at Google (Mapmaker, Knowledge Graph) and Directi (Talk.to). On the side I started and ran Pondicherry's first tourist hostel — operationally profitable for two years and three months, until COVID.
Curious about everything, in roughly this order: software, general engineering, politics, business, economics, travel.
A decade-plus of shipping.
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2025
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2024Sep 2024 – Aug 2025
Independent — Entrepreneurship
Self-directed · 1-year sabbaticalA year building my own ideas end-to-end. Notable projects: a mobile app connecting people by interest; legal-tech models extracting structure from unstructured Supreme Court judgements; an OOH ad platform for dynamic ads in commercial spaces.
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2022Jun 2022 – Aug 2024
Senior Engineering Manager
Clari · RemoteGrew backend team and systems to handle significant product usage growth post-acquisition. Helped the team ramp to late-stage startup processes and ship new AI features.
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2021Nov 2021 – Jun 2022
Engineering Manager & Tech Lead
WingmanHired developers, managed priorities for an early-stage dynamic product, led tech-debt reduction.
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2018Sep 2018 – Nov 2021
Founding Engineer
Wingman · YC S19Built real-time call processing and suggestion delivery, insights extraction, and the external REST/integration layer pulling data from CRMs, calendars, and dialers. Ran AWS, Kubernetes, and MongoDB. Led migration from GCP to AWS.
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2018Feb 2018 – Jun 2020
Founder
Droid Hostel · PondicherryBuilt Pondicherry's first tourist hostel. Ran it profitably in a rented building until the COVID lockdown forced closure.
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2016Apr 2016 – Oct 2017
Software Engineer
Google · ZurichMigrated batch Worry Metrics (preliminary analysis for data entering Google's Knowledge Graph) to a live system. Improved triggering and retries for RefX model building in Data Experiments.
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2013May 2013 – Mar 2016
Software Engineer
Google · BengaluruMigrated user preferences to more secure storage with zero live-service disruption. Built editing widgets, shortcuts, and the category index for Mapmaker v2; set up Mapmaker sandboxes.
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2012Jun 2012 – Apr 2013
Software Developer
Directi · MumbaiWorked on Talk.to — a client unifying chat across Facebook, Google, and others. Improved error reporting and roster performance.
Side projects & experiments.
Playground
A collection of interactive web tools and experiments. [one-line hook: the single most interesting tool, or what it's actually for]
↗Taboo — strings.ai
AI word game. Describe a word without its forbidden terms. LLM-generated hint chains, multiplayer rooms.
↗Budget Dashboard
Personal finance tracker with automated categorization and visualizations.
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Fastest way to reach me is email — I read everything. You'll also find me on most places below.