Kartik Jha
Software developer with 5+ years of full-time experience in full-stack development, specializing in React, Node.js, TypeScript, and AI integration. Proven track record in building scalable educational platforms, including systems that slashed evaluation times by 32% and secured a ₹6.2 Cr+ portfolio, while delivering high-impact products with modern development practices.
Work Experiences
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.
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 cutting average evaluation time by 32%.
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 spent scrubbing audio files, improving both 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.
- Audited every past state evaluation to identify bad actors and ensure data integrity across all upcoming state rollouts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Independent Projects
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.
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
backend
databases
ai
Tools
Education
RCOEM, Nagpur
B.E. Electronics
Self Taught Programmer