Karan Hejmadi

Summary

Engineer who bridges technical execution and business strategy, focused on delivering high-performance products where user experience matches the robustness of the underlying architecture. I invest time in deeply understanding problems before writing code, ensuring every feature drives real value.

Experience

• Joined as the first engineer (5th employee), scaling the engineering and design teams from the ground up while establishing core architectural patterns and development workflows.
• Architected and delivered 0-to-1 enterprise manufacturing platforms, optimizing infrastructure design to slash monthly cloud spend by 80% while scaling to support multi-million dollar revenue pipelines.
• Pioneered an AI-native live-auditing suite featuring automated summaries and interactive observation chat, compressed a weeks-long manual reporting workflow into an instant turnaround shared with suppliers the moment an auditor leaves the facility.
• Designed a custom manufacturing master data platform and quality management system, implementing granular event-tracking and complex version-control architecture for engineering change management.
• Spent time directly on the manufacturing shop floor to translate real-world operational challenges and business context into practical software solutions.
• Drove early-stage startup growth across cross-functional domains, contributing directly to technical hiring, sales engineering, and investor pitch strategies alongside the executive team.

• Built the Android and iOS application using React Native, in partnership with Tech Mahindra, for the inaugural edition of the Global Chess League.
• Integrated a realtime sync system to track and broadcast chess board moves to 1000+ concurrent users globally live from the arena.
• Achieved a 4.6+ rating on both Google Play Store and App Store on release.
• Delivered pixel-perfect screens matching Figma designs within a 1-month deadline aligned to the tournament schedule.

Projects

Skills

TypeScript, Python, Go, React, React Native, Expo, Tailwind CSS, Node, Express, FastAPI, NestJS, REST, GraphQL, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Traefik, NGINX, Kafka, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, LangChain, LangGraph