AI Agents & Workflow Automation
Agentic workflows that take real work off your team’s plate, with tool use, guardrails and a human in the loop where it matters.
Read MoreHello, I’m Rahul. Engineering Leader & AI Product Architect
I design and build AI-native products and the engineering teams behind them — from idea to production.
Now building AI products
§ 01Profile
Engineering Leader with 11+ years building web & mobile systems — now architecting AI-native products for startups and enterprises.
Specialized in product architecture, team leadership, AI workflows, and high-impact delivery.
- Built platforms used by millions
- Led teams of 20+
- Anthropic Academy: Claude Code & agent skills
- Expert in scaling products
- 11+ Years building web & mobile systems
- 20+ Engineers in the largest team led
- 6 Companies across India & Canada
- 400 Among the first worldwide to earn IBM’s Cloud Developer certification
Some of the Amazing Companies I’ve Worked With
§ 02Services
AI workflows and digital products, set up and run end to end
I’ve spent 11+ years across front-end, back-end, architecture and mobile. Today that experience goes into AI: agents, retrieval systems, and the engineering practices that keep them reliable, affordable and maintainable.
A AI workflows
RAG & Knowledge Assistants
Assistants that answer from your documents, not the internet’s: ingestion, retrieval, citations and evaluation, built to say “I don’t know” when they should.
Read MoreAI-Native Engineering
Adopt AI coding tools without the tech debt: review practice, governance, cost control and hands-on team enablement.
Read MoreB Product engineering
Product Design
A great idea is nothing without a great execution. I can help you to develop a detailed plan to start and monitor the progress of the product.
Read MoreWeb Development
If you are looking for a developer who’ll take over the research and development of your website, I am a well-established professional to help you with this.
Read MoreApp Development
From first prototype to store release, I build mobile products that feel native and scale with their users.
Read More§ 03My Journey as techie
My Journey as techie
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Independent
Bengaluru, IndiaAug 2025 — PresentProduct & AI Engineering Building and shipping AI and product platforms, including Adda29, Smartbotify and Lawkraft.
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Telus Digital
Toronto, Canada2021 — Aug 2025Software Developer Development, Team Collaboration, infrastructure setup, and management.
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Zolve Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, India2021 (6 m)Software Developer UI/UX architecture, Team management, CI/CD setup and execution, negotiations with vendors
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Gameskraft tech
Bangalore, India2018 — 2021Senior Software Developer UI/UX architecture, Team management, CI/CD setup and execution, Mentoring team members
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Spraoi Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore, India2018 (9 m)Software Developer UI/UX design and development on react eco-system, Occasionally working on back-end.
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Sabre Technologies
Bangalore, India2017 — 2018Contributor Software Developer UI/UX design and development on react eco-system, Occasionally working on back-end.
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Silverlake Info. Sys.
Bangalore, India2015 — 2017Software Developer Application end-to-end design and development, training software professionals on IBM offerings.
§ 04Testimonials
What colleagues say
Rahul joined as a frontend developer in our initial team of engineers and I am pleased to recommend him as a competent and knowledgeable frontend developer. He displayed a lot of sincerity and flexibility in his work as part of our team, helping us deliver critical deliverables - which was very critical for us to establish ourselves in the marketplace as a startup. He took ownership of the story cards and collaborated seamlessly with others. He is a genuinely affable person with very helpful and sharing attitude toward others. Overall, a great asset to have on the team!
Rahul isn’t just a phenomenal software leader, he’s also an incredibly talented coder who can dive deep into both front-end and back-end development. He’s a true architect, able to design robust solutions, and he understands the entire product lifecycle, from initial concept to deployment with CI/CD. What truly stands out about Rahul is his ability to guide and mentor teams while still being hands-on when needed. He’s a problem-solver who consistently finds elegant solutions, and he’s constantly eager to learn and implement new technologies.
§ 05Latest writing
Latest writing on AI and engineering leadership
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§ 06Quick answers
Questions people ask about Rahul
Who is Rahul Kant Ravi?
Rahul Kant Ravi is an engineering leader and AI product architect based in Bengaluru, India. He has 11+ years of experience building web, mobile and AI-native products for startups and enterprises, has led teams of up to 20 engineers, and writes about engineering leadership in the age of AI.
Read his full storyWhat does Rahul Kant Ravi do?
He designs and builds AI-native products and the engineering teams behind them: agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) assistants and AI-assisted engineering practice, alongside web and mobile product engineering. Since August 2025 he has worked independently on product and AI projects.
See the servicesWhat AI services does Rahul offer?
Three: AI agents and workflow automation with tool use, guardrails and human review; RAG and knowledge assistants that answer from a company’s own documents with citations; and AI-native engineering, meaning review practice, governance and cost control for teams adopting AI coding tools.
See the servicesWhich companies has Rahul worked with?
Telus Digital in Toronto (2021 to August 2025), Zolve, Gameskraft, Spraoi, Sabre Technologies and Silverlake Information Systems. He also trained developers for IBM (2015–2017) and coached at Pesto Tech (2020).
See the career in detailIs Rahul Kant Ravi IBM certified?
Yes. He passed IBM’s Certified Application Developer – Cloud Platform v1 exam and was one of the first 400 people in the world to do so. IBM then invited him to serve as head trainer for its Bluemix and MobileFirst coding bootcamps between 2015 and 2017.
About the IBM bootcampsWhat does Rahul write about?
AI-era engineering: the hidden cost of AI-generated technical debt, AI tool cost governance, why junior developers still matter, how to lead software teams when AI writes code, and why AI replaces bad architecture rather than engineers. He also writes about Go, systems thinking and web fundamentals.
Read the blogHow can I contact or hire Rahul?
Use the contact form or email info@rahulkantravi.in. Rahul is based in Bengaluru, India.
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