Hi, I'm Kartik
742 contributions last year
Activity overview
Contributed to Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator, freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp, nocodb/nocodb and 4 other repositories
Contribution activity
June 2026Created a pull request in nocodb/nocodb that received 1 comment
Jun 29Closes #9747 Change Summary Adds MD5() and SHA256() formula functions for checksum/hash use cases (#9747). Register MD5 and SHA256 in SDK formulas.ts
Opened 3 other pull requests in 2 repositories
What I've been working on lately
Astro template for non-SPA designer websites - portfolios, business sites, and interactive experiences. HTML-first, with optional islands later for motion or WebGL.
A high-performance Rust CLI built to automate entity scaffolding and boilerplate management for modern TypeScript web applications.
Production-grade, highly structured Express.js & TypeScript microservice framework featuring layered architecture, strict Zod schema validation, and cursor-based pagination.
Production-ready React 19 & TypeScript frontend template pre-configured with TanStack Query v5, React Router v7, and Tailwind CSS v4.
My Career
Assistant Engineering Manager
Educational Initiatives (Ei)
April 2025 – PresentCurrent
Assistant Engineering Manager
Educational Initiatives (Ei)
Promoted to lead a 5-engineer team driving the AI and ASR architecture for India's Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) programs. I direct the technical delivery and business strategy for a platform serving 56,000+ students across 3,000+ schools, transforming manual evaluation into automated pipelines.
AI/ASR Architecture & ₹6.2 Cr+ Business Impact
- Architected a Hindi phonemic classification pipeline from scratch (Whisper, Wav2Vec, Forced Alignment, VAD), prioritizing acoustic precision over generic transcription.
- Achieved 96% accuracy on Oral Reading Fluency & Non-Word Reading, and 92% on Letter Recognition.
- Eliminated the immense operational cost of hiring external human evaluators, driving ₹3.4 Cr in realized project revenue and securing ₹6.2 Cr+ in total signed portfolio & expansion pipeline.
National Infrastructure Leadership
- Built the end-to-end FLN product infrastructure from field-implementation portals to the centralized data hub, serving 80,000+ assessments in over 7 states.
- Automated the reporting workflows that provide critical pedagogical insights directly informing nationwide, government-led education strategies.
Engineering Lead
Educational Initiatives (Ei)
August 2024 – April 2025
Engineering Lead
Educational Initiatives (Ei)
Brought in mid-flight during a massive statewide assessment rollout in UP, Orissa, and Rajasthan to rescue a failing legacy evaluation portal. Working directly with the Founder and VP of Learning Applications, I architected a modern platform from scratch, introduced telemetry-driven workflows, and built automated evaluator vetting systems that slashed processing times and halted malicious abuse.
Rescuing the Evaluation Pipeline
- Inherited a sloppy, third-party Vanilla JS and EJS legacy portal suffering from unoptimized queries, terrible latencies, and data persistence failures that lost hours of evaluation work.
- Injected basic telemetry to diagnose the baseline: 42-minute literacy and 31-minute numeracy average evaluation times.
- Pitched and led a ground-up rewrite in React, Node, and TypeScript, overhauling the API design and slashing average evaluation times by 13 mins (32%) for literacy and 11 mins (35%) for numeracy.
Audio Telemetry & Question Sync
- Expanded telemetry to the Android application to build 'Question Audio Sync' - tracks and highlights the exact question being answered in real-time as the audio plays.
- Eliminated the time evaluators wasted scrubbing audio files, drastically improving accuracy and throughput on complex Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) tasks and CEFR evaluations.
Automated Vetting & Mitigating Abuse
- Discovered severe auditing blindspots in the old system, including evaluators abusing 'mark all' utilities to falsely complete tasks.
- Built a two-pronged auditing, rescoring, and onboarding engine: replaced manual interviews with a deterministic onboarding test of 4 pre-evaluated assessments.
- Executed sweeping audits on past state evaluations, identifying bad actors and ensuring data integrity across all upcoming state rollouts.
Lead Software Developer
Loud Mob Media
April 2023 – August 2024
Lead Software Developer
Loud Mob Media
Led end-to-end development of interactive web applications, WebGL rendering pipelines, and gamified digital experiences for ad-tech and creative clients.
Interactive Applications & Design System Engineering
- Led end-to-end development of interactive web applications using TypeScript, React, and WebGL/GLSL for ad-tech and interactive experiences, optimizing rendering performance.
- Built an internal Design Library of reusable components, adopted across the team to standardize UI development.
Software Developer
Loud Mob Media
August 2022 – April 2023
Software Developer
Loud Mob Media
Developed and maintained internal web applications and business tools, automating manual processes to enhance overall team productivity.
Internal Systems & Automation
- Developed and maintained internal web applications and business tools, automating manual processes to enhance overall team productivity.
Software Developer Intern
Aarkay Techno Consultants (ATCPL)
November 2021 – June 2022
Software Developer Intern
Aarkay Techno Consultants (ATCPL)
Engineered the main corporate website in Next.js, managing end-to-end development and production deployment.
Corporate Platform Delivery
- Engineered the main corporate website in Next.js. Managed end-to-end development and production deployment in collaboration with product and content teams.
Software Developer
Freelance
February 2018 – October 2021
Software Developer
Freelance
Delivered full-stack web solutions for freelance clients across e-commerce and creative sectors, customizing digital storefronts and integrating payment gateways.
Full-Stack & Digital Storefronts
- Delivered end-to-end web solutions for freelance clients across the e-commerce and creative sectors.
- Customized Shopify themes and integrated payment gateways to launch functional digital storefronts.
Brands and Partners I've worked with
What Clients Say
“Kartik is an integral part of the Neev product team. He is high on ownership and thinking through of the problems at hand. He is also able to think holistically - What does the project need? He is able to focus fully and has the drive to deliver. He likes to challenge and push himself.”
“Kartik is very dedicated to his work. He is always ready to try out new things and incorporate new features that we were looking for. He would always go out of his way to deliver the best possible results. A very sincere and hard-working person.”
“Kartik is a very ambitious hard working professional. He has achieved every target he sets and is growing every day with newer, more advanced skills. I would totally recommend this professional for ANY kind of project. He will surely give it his 110!”
“Kartik is an integral part of the Neev product team. He is high on ownership and thinking through of the problems at hand. He is also able to think holistically - What does the project need? He is able to focus fully and has the drive to deliver. He likes to challenge and push himself.”
