Hi, I'm

Rajasekhar Reddy

Principal Engineering Manager

A journey through engineering, AI, and leadership.

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01Chapter One

The Beginning

A dual degree at IIT Kharagpur and an early pull toward how systems really work.

  • Dual Degree — B.Tech & M.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur (2019).
  • Research intern at Siemens Technology India — evaluated YOLO & YOLOv2 for real-time object detection.
  • Built a recognition pipeline for live and offline video streams.
IIT KharagpurComputer VisionResearch
02Chapter Two

Growing as an Engineer

One of the earliest engineers at Kenyt.AI — building the core platform that powered the company's growth.

  • Built core components of Kenyt's conversational AI platform.
  • Optimised Elasticsearch queries for faster response times.
  • Migrated the dashboard from ASP.NET MVC to a REST API + Angular architecture.
  • Built an automated invoicing system.
C#.NETAngularElasticsearchREST APIs
03Chapter Three

Leadership

From Senior Technical Lead to Principal Engineering Manager — scaling teams, architecture, and standards.

  • Lead a 9-person engineering team delivering AI-driven products across multiple clusters.
  • Define and execute the strategic technical roadmap, aligning engineering with business OKRs.
  • Mentor senior engineers and managers; drive best practices and architectural standards org-wide.
  • Established CI/CD pipelines to accelerate releases; conducted code reviews and technical interviews.
Team LeadershipSystem DesignArchitectureMentoring
04Chapter Four

AI Builder

Architecting distributed, cloud-native systems behind an AI-driven SaaS platform.

  • Architected microservices-based distributed systems using C#, Angular & Elasticsearch.
  • Independently migrated the platform from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET 8, enabling cloud-native deployment.
  • Engineered an Azure publish pipeline producing deployment-ready artifacts for multi-cluster rollouts.
  • Focus on API design, performance optimization, and high-availability systems.
AI PlatformsAzureMicroservices.NET 8Redis
05Chapter Five

Selected Impact

.NET 4.8 → .NET 8

Full-Platform Framework Migration

Independently architected and executed a full migration to .NET 8, unlocking cloud-native deployment and measurable performance gains.

C#.NET 8Azure

Angular v8 → v16

Frontend Modernization

Led the Angular migration across the platform, improving runtime performance and long-term supportability without pausing delivery.

AngularTypeScript

Manual → Automated

Azure Multi-Cluster Release Pipeline

Engineered an automated Azure publish pipeline producing deployment-ready artifacts for multi-cluster rollouts, cutting release friction.

AzureCI/CD

₹10L → $1M · 10 → 1000+

Scaling Kenyt.AI From Day One

As one of the earliest engineers, built and scaled the core platform and conversational AI that underpinned the company's growth.

ElasticsearchDistributed Systems
06Chapter Six

Skills Constellation

A neural map of the tools and disciplines I work in — hover a node to trace its connections.

07Chapter Seven

The Timeline

  1. Principal Engineering Manager · Kenyt.AI

    May 2025 — Present

    Leading a 9-person team delivering AI-driven products across multiple clusters.

  2. Staff Engineering Manager · Kenyt.AI

    Apr 2024 — Apr 2025

    Scaled a ~10-person team; architected microservices-based distributed systems.

  3. Senior Technical Lead · Kenyt.AI

    Mar 2023 — Mar 2024

    Managed and mentored a team of 4; established CI/CD pipelines.

  4. Software Engineer · Kenyt.AI

    Jun 2019 — Mar 2023

    One of the earliest engineers; built core platform capabilities.

  5. Research Intern · Siemens Technology India

    May 2018 — Jul 2018

    Evaluated YOLO & YOLOv2 for real-time object detection.

08The Horizon

I don't just build software.
I build products that solve real problems. I build teams. I build AI.
And this journey has only begun.