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Kartik Jha

Assistant Manager: Engineering at Ei

Professional Summary

Software developer with 5 years of experience in full-stack development, specializing in React, Node.js, TypeScript, and AI integration. Proven track record in building scalable educational platforms and delivering high-impact products with modern development practices.

Work Experiences

Assistant Manager: EngineeringEducational Initiatives (Ei)
2025-Present
Driving technical strategy and engineering operations for large-scale educational platforms. Leading cross-functional efforts to deliver critical pedagogical tools and data hubs used at a national scale.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
  • Synchronized efforts between Product, Design, and QA teams to align technical roadmaps and ensure the seamless execution of large-scale projects, hitting all major KPIs.
  • Led an engineering team to deliver product enhancements, resulting in measurable efficiency gains across internal and client-facing platforms.
  • Built the ecosystem from the ground up, encompassing the Evaluation Engine and Field-Implementation suite.
  • Developed a unified FLN data hub that consolidated workflows and automated reporting, providing critical pedagogical insights used to inform nationwide, government-led strategies for addressing FLN challenges in India.
Select Achievements
  • Synchronized multiple departments to achieve 100% KPI hit rate on all major product launches in the current cycle.
  • Architected a nationwide FLN data pipeline used for informing government educational strategies across India.
Engineering LeadEducational Initiatives (Ei)
2024-2025
Led engineering operations and technical strategy, modernization of legacy infrastructures, and performance optimization for high-traffic educational tools.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
  • Modernized Legacy infrastructures into scalable Node.js, TypeScript, and NextJS solutions, achieving a 73% increase in API performance while maintaining 100% backward compatibility.
  • Refactored backend services for high-traffic educational tools, reducing system latency by 60% through optimized query execution and atomic transaction handling.
  • Mentored junior developers, fostering a high-performance engineering culture.
Select Achievements
  • Achieved 73% increase in API performance through strategic modernization of legacy Node.js infrastructure.
  • Reduced overall system latency by 60% by refactoring core educational tools for high-traffic workflows.
Tech LeadLoud Mob Media
2024
Directed technical strategy for high-performance interactive web applications, focusing on WebGL performance and complex data visualizations.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
  • Directed the technical strategy for high-performance interactive web applications, ensuring seamless project delivery.
  • Engineered math-intensive GLSL shaders and optimized WebGL pipelines to maximize rendering performance.
  • Collaborated with design and content teams to translate creative concepts into actionable technical roadmaps.
Select Achievements
  • Optimized complex WebGL rendering pipelines to achieve elite-tier performance.
Lead Software DeveloperLoud Mob Media
2023
Led the transition to a modern tech stack and developed robust high-performance frameworks using React Three Fiber and Three.js.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
  • Led the transition to a modern tech stack, achieving performance increase and a drastic reduction in legacy technical debt.
  • Developed a robust React WebGL framework utilizing Three.js and React Three Fiber, ensuring cross-browser compatibility.
  • Created an internal Design Library for standardizing UI components, accelerating frontend delivery time.
Select Achievements
  • Established an internal Design Library that standardized UI components and significantly reduced frontend delivery time across projects.
Software DeveloperLoud Mob Media
2022
Developed internal web applications and tools, focusing on automation and modernization of legacy systems.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
  • Developed and maintained internal web applications and business tools, automating manual processes to enhance productivity.
  • Contributed to the modernization of legacy systems and UI/UX enhancements with a focus on front-end performance.
Select Achievements
  • Automated multiple manual business processes via internal tools, resulting in measurable team productivity gains.
Developer & DesignerFreelance
2019-Present
Full-stack development specializing in Three.js and Next.js 14 to create immersive web experiences for diverse clients.
Select Achievements
  • Specialized in designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and secure AI integrations for various contexts.

Independent Projects

plot-it
node.js
typescript
llms
postgresql
2025
Built an AI-powered lore-management storyboarding engine to centralize complex, nested data. Powered by a custom AI Assistant for contextual world-building help.
Impact: Centralizes creative workflows for narrators and world-builders.
tether
rust
typescript
2025
Developed a personal scaffolding tool using Rust to automate project boilerplate and environment configuration, drastically reducing setup time for new services.
Impact: Reduced initial setup time by automating directory structures and configurations.

Skills & Outcomes

Product Ownership

Owning the end-to-end delivery of high-impact educational tools by aligning data-driven insights with product strategy. Includes Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) expertise.

Strategic Leadership

Presenting technical milestones and project outcomes to senior leadership, influencing strategic business decisions. Bridging the gap between rigid engineering standards and fluid, user-centric educational design.

AI Engineering

Specialized in designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Expertise in building secure, schema-driven AI integrations for educational contexts.

Full-stack Engineering

Expertise in the core React stack (React Router, TanStack Query, Zustand, NextJS) and building scalable applications with strict TypeScript patterns.

Back-end Engineering

Designing robust, type-safe, modular systems using Node.js and TypeScript. Implementing patterns like Domain-Driven Design and optimizing performant SQL/NoSQL databases.

Front-end Engineering

Proficient in building accessible, high-performance design systems using Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, and atomic component patterns.

Domain Expertise

Ed-tech

In-depth understanding of the educational ecosystem and the synthesis of pedagogy with technology.

Leadership

Technical Mentorship

Proven expertise in mentoring high-performance teams and establishing rigorous technical standards.

Stakeholder Management

Ability to bridge technical complexity and business goals to drive executive-level decision-making.

Technologies

frontend

TypeScript
React
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Radix UI
Three.js
Framer Motion

backend

Node.js
Express
TypeScript
Rust

databases

PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
SQLite

ai

LLMs
RAG Systems
AI Agents
Ollama
MCPs

Tools

Git
Postman
Docker
BitBucket
Jira
Confluence
Grafana
Prometheus
k6
Rust (Scaffolding Tools)

Education

Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur

B.E. Electronics

Self Taught Programmer

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