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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.

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§ —At a glance

Rahul Kant Ravi at a glance

Name
Rahul Kant Ravi
Role
Engineering Leader & AI Product Architect
Based in
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience
11+ years building web and mobile systems for startups and enterprises
Focus now
AI-native products: agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI-assisted engineering
Leadership
Has led engineering teams of up to 20 people
Worked with
Telus Digital (Toronto), Zolve, Gameskraft, Spraoi, Sabre Technologies, Silverlake Information Systems
Mentoring
Head trainer for IBM Bluemix and MobileFirst bootcamps (2015–2017); coach at Pesto Tech (2020)
Certified
IBM Certified Application Developer – Cloud Platform v1, among the first 400 people worldwide to pass
Learning
Anthropic Academy courses (2026) including Claude Code and agent skills
Education
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
Languages
English (professional), Hindi (native)
Since Aug 2025
Independent, working on product and AI projects
§ 01Mentoring

As a Mentor

Coach for IBM

2015 — 2017

I was lucky enough to clear IBM’s cloud developer exam (IBM certified application developer cloud platform v1), one of the first 400 people in the world at that time to do so. Hence IBM used to call a few other developers and me for the boot camps and hackathons.

IBM called me to organize multiple coding boot camps between 2015 to 2017 as the head trainer for the developer on the topics of Bluemix (IBM’s cloud solution) and Mobilefirst (IBM mobile application development solution). The main objective of those boot camps was to learn and use IBM’s technologies to create a working prototype (MVP) of an Idea related to a given domain to win prizes. The boot camps usually lasted for a month.

This was my first experience geeking out and socializing with talents outside my current workplace.

Coach for Pesto

2020

In 2020 I got a chance to groom the next generation of technology curtsy of the people at Pesto tech. They designed a curriculum focused on learning and understanding the software development process and lifecycle.

The curriculum started with an ideation phase and end with a seminar on the MVP the participants have developed over 3 months. We also discussed different aspects of the tech sector, including culture and life in a startup vs a MNC. There were participants of all kinds of backgrounds who were freshers, some were working and wanted a career change, and a few were coming after a career break.

§ 02Career

As a Techie

Aug 2025 — Present

Independent

Bengaluru, India
  • Working on a portfolio of product and AI projects, including Adda29 (an online card-gaming platform), Smartbotify (a chatbot that answers only from your own content) and Lawkraft (AI legal research and drafting for advocates in India).
  • Hands-on with agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI-assisted engineering practice, from architecture to production.

The Journey goes on…

2021 — Aug 2025

Telus Digital

Toronto, Canada
  • Worked with a very high-performing development team to develop different features over a set of interlinked applications.
  • Implemented New Relic and Dynatrace over a multitude of different applications.
  • Helped in developing and maintaining a new and improved design system.
  • Implemented process improvements and introduced automation tools that optimized workflow, increased productivity, and maintained high-quality standards across development cycles.
  • Played a key role in vendor negotiations and cross-functional coordination to support infrastructure and platform enhancements, contributing to overall business growth and customer satisfaction.
2021 (6 m)

Zolve Pvt. Ltd.

Bangalore, India
  • Led a 20-member tech team that handle operations and future enhancement of a financial app.
  • Set upped Docker systems for CI/CD of different components of the overall system, which reduced the launch time of a new feature or bug fixes by 50%.
  • Also helped in monitoring the day-to-day operations of the app over New Relic (the target audience for the app was in the U.S.A).
  • Help in understanding and designing the remittances module that increased the company revenue by 80%.
2018 — 2021

Gameskraft tech.

Bangalore, India
  • Started and architected client-side Gamezy app as well as Gamezy web from scratch including CI/CD and distribution channel with Jenkins, A.W.S, and nginx for the same.
  • Monitored ongoing operation of assigned programs and responded to problems by diagnosing and correcting logic and coding errors.
  • Led a large 12-member development team focused on revamping the Gamezy app and web.
  • Also influenced the decision-making on day-to-day operations and future enhancement including marketing.
2018 (9 m)

Spraoi Pvt. Ltd.

Bangalore, India
  • Developed and designed Quick Cover web app with a responsive view for user and UI-Routing on React eco-system.
  • Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
  • The parent company was based out in the U.S.A., so I was also taking care of 4 people development team.
2017 — 2018

Sabre Technologies

Bangalore, India
  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
  • Improved stability and reliability through consistent hard work and dedication to Property Management System V4 (PMS V4).
  • Set upped TDD which reduced the regression errors.
2015 — 2017

Silverlake Info. Sys.

Bangalore, India
  • Worked on multiple projects for different clients such as SIPCOT, Bridgestone, 3M, etc.
  • Reduce the overall delivery time of projects by 30% by introducing agile development for the team.
  • Revised, modularisation and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing client operating costs by 10% and improving availability to 97%.
  • Performed regression and system-level testing to verify software quality and function prior to release.