Aviraj Khare

Platform & AI Engineer · Founding Engineer
✓ Open to Work
9 Years Experience
Bengaluru, India · Remote-first
ETHIndia 2022 Winner
Google for Entrepreneurs 2018
Platform & AI engineer with 9 years of production experience across back-end systems, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and LLM integration. Built internal developer platforms at Gojek serving 900+ engineers. Sole founding engineer at Likeo — scaled it to acquisition. Delivered a 40-day multi-cloud migration (GCP → Azure, 50+ microservices) and re-engineered an LLM pipeline achieving a 270× throughput increase (10 emails/day → 45 emails/hour). ETHIndia 2022 winner. Targeting Founding Engineer roles at growth-stage AI startups.
Consultant — Platform & AI Engineering
Equalbyte
Aug 2025 – Feb 2026
Remote
  • Led a 40-day GCP → Azure migration spanning 50+ microservices — delivered on time with zero production downtime, improving multi-cloud portability and system resilience. As part of that effort, re-engineered the LLM-powered email automation pipeline for a 270× throughput increase — from <10 emails/day to 45+ emails/hour in live production.
  • Engineered a compliance tracking fintech app for bank kiosk networks using TypeScriptExpressReact NativeApache Fineract — owned API, mobile workflow, and end-to-end deployment.
  • Built an n8n-style workflow automation platform from scratch: Go orchestration back-end with visual React/Vite builder and full node execution engine.
  • Directed full lifecycle of an iOS AI application for facial skin analysis — from system design to App Store production release with personalized monthly treatment plans.
  • Created a GenAI-powered Unity plugin enabling non-technical users to auto-generate game environments; built abstraction layer over Unity APIs eliminating need for prior coding knowledge.
Founding Engineer
Likeo → Acquired by KiranapPro
2025
Remote
  • Sole founding engineer — built the product end-to-end (web + Telegram interfaces) with a team of interns; scaled the platform to acquisition by KiranapPro.
  • Managed architecture decisions, deployment infrastructure, and cross-functional coordination throughout the product lifecycle.
Co-founder & Founding Engineer
Plasho
2024 – 2025
Remote
  • Built a Shopify application from scratch and established complete infrastructure architecture.
  • Improved ID verification accuracy by integrating LLM-powered OCR into the document processing pipeline.
Blockchain & Open Source
Web3 Foundation · MetaReset · Celo Foundation
2023
  • Competitive Web3 Foundation grant: shipped open-source Ink Wizard (CLI for Flipper, PSP-22, PSP-34, and PSP-37 contracts from user-selected features) and Ink Boxes (Polkadot contract boilerplates with polkadot.js front-ends, Truffle Boxes–style).
  • Built front-end interfaces and contributed to NFT smart contract development for MetaPeople (MetaReset).
  • Wrote 5+ developer documentation articles for Celo Foundation (accounts, transactions, identity, smart contracts) for ecosystem onboarding.
Product Engineer
Gojek
2019 – 2021
Bengaluru, India
Platform Team — Product Engineer (Intern → Full-Time)
  • Contributed to an enterprise-grade internal PaaS serving 900+ engineers with self-service infrastructure capabilities across compute, storage, and networking.
  • Managed GitLab HA deployment across 300+ runners on cloud and on-premise; led zero-downtime GitLab email migration.
  • Maintained Apache Airflow DAG pipelines automating business-critical data workflows.
  • Contributed towards building real-time infrastructure visualization using Vizceral (WebGL) and Grafana dashboards to monitor GCP assets, strengthening observability and optimizing cost tracking.
  • Implemented Kafka-driven event architecture modernizing legacy data pipelines inside few of critical microservices; implemented IAP + WebSocket-based SSH solutions for secure engineer access.
  • Advanced GitOps practices using TerraformChef; continuously improved internal CLI tooling for provisioning efficiency.
Transport Team — iOS Developer Intern
  • Delivered the Go-Ride cancellation reason feature, improving ride transparency and rider experience across Gojek's high-scale transport product.
Earlier Roles
2016 – 2019
  • Back-end Engineer — HelloMeets (2018–2019)
  • DevOps Engineer — Anveshana (2018)
  • CTO — Lattice Protocol (2018)
  • Django Developer — DSU Digital Library (2016–2017)
MCP server equipping AI agents with 30 AST-based capabilities to accurately read, analyze, and modify codebases — eliminates guesswork by relying on source-level insights.
Automated PostgreSQL environment provisioning using Terraform and Ansible.
AI tool that generates comprehensive GitHub profile summaries. OpenAI TypeScript GitHub API
Domanzy
AI platform for generating domain names and business ideas with real-time availability and pricing insights.
JavaScript library for identifying emotional intensity in text using sentiment analysis.
Web3 Foundation-funded CLI for dynamic Polkadot smart contract generation + preconfigured boilerplates with polkadot.js integration.

Languages

Python TypeScript Golang Ruby Solidity

Cloud & Infra

AWS GCP Azure DigitalOcean Linode

DevOps & Platform

Docker Terraform Chef GitLab CI/CD Apache Airflow Kafka GitOps

Frameworks

Node.js Express.js React React Native Next.js TailwindCSS

AI & LLM

MCP LLM Integration Embeddings Vector DBs Prompt Engineering RAG

Web3 & Blockchain

Ethereum Hyperledger Fabric Celo Polkadot Smart Contracts

Databases & APIs

PostgreSQL REST GraphQL Apache Fineract

Observability

Grafana Vizceral (WebGL)
2022 ETHIndia Winner
2018 Google for Entrepreneurs
2018 Colony Hackathon Runner-Up
2018 Facebook Digital Masala Winner
2018 DSU Hacks Winner
2017 ESYA Winner
Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
RNTU, Bhopal · English & Hindi

Available for Founding Engineer roles

Remote-first · AI/LLM · Platform Engineering · Full-Stack · Web3 · India-based

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Last updated: April 2026