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I'm Kalpit Jain

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Transforming ideas into intelligent digital experiences through software that solves real problems and powers scalable, positive AI impact.

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About Me

Get to know me better

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I approach software the way a scientist approaches the world.Every system begins as a question. In my work, I study where things are still manual, form a hypothesis, and experiment with AI until the answer holds up in production. It started in school with one question, how does the web actually work? That question never really ended. It became my method: observe, question, experiment, refine.

I design and build digital products, thinking not only about how they work but also why they should exist. My current area of focus is AI: agents that reason, automation that removes repetitive work, and search that surfaces the right answer. Hackathons are my lab, where I've tested ideas across AI and Web3 and come away with seven wins.

Outside of work, I read widely across finance, economics, politics, and history, trying to understand how the world's larger systems really work. Travel and photography keep me grounded. They teach me to slow down, notice the details, and remember that "The best solutions come from understanding the world beyond the screen."

INDIABengaluru
0+Years of Building
0Hackathons Won
B.Tech CSEJECRC · 2024
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Skills

Technologies & tools I work with

Languages

8
TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonJavaSQLHTMLCSSC

Frameworks & Libraries

9
React.jsNext.jsNode.jsExpress.jsTailwind CSSReduxFramer MotionViteWebpack

Databases

6
PostgreSQLRedisFirestoreElasticsearchQdrantSupabase

Cloud (GCP)

9
Cloud RunCloud SQLCloud StoragePub/SubCloud TasksIAMSecret ManagerCloud LoggingCloud Monitoring

AI

10
LLM AgentsRAGVector EmbeddingsPrompt EngineeringLangChainSemantic KernelOpenAI APIAzure OpenAIGeminiWeb Scraping

Tools & Platforms

12
GitGitHubGitHub ActionsDockerVercelSentryShopifyWhatsApp Business APIChrome ExtensionsStorybookFigmaJira
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Experience

My professional journey

Bik.AI (YC S20)

Software Engineer II

June 2024 — PresentBengaluru, Karnataka
  • Designed and shipped AI-driven recommendation engines, workflow automation, and spam detection, replacing manual support operations across the platform.
  • Owned the Shopify web widget, delivering engagement-focused features and re-architecting its build and release pipeline to reduce bundle size and accelerate deployments.
  • Built event-driven data deletion and retention infrastructure with configurable store-level policies, ensuring privacy compliance across downstream systems.
  • Engineered ingestion pipelines consolidating ticket- and customer-level data into a centralized knowledge base, establishing a single source of truth for reporting.
  • Integrated WhatsApp username and call recording capabilities into the core messaging infrastructure, supporting quality assurance and compliance.
  • Developed core CRM features and accessibility improvements, reduced reliance on third-party dependencies, and built analytics to measure AI impact across the platform.

MyShubhLife

Backend Engineer Intern

February 2024 — May 2024Bengaluru, Karnataka
  • Migrated from role-based to policy-based access control, enabling granular permissions and empowering the tech operations team to work without recurring engineering dependencies.
  • Redesigned the configuration management system, improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Microsoft

Software Engineer Intern

April 2023 — June 2023Noida, Uttar Pradesh
  • Developed an enterprise agentic co-pilot for workforce management with Azure OpenAI and Semantic Kernel, streamlining planning workflows and improving operational efficiency.
  • Implemented semantic skills for content accessibility, data analytics, and intelligent user authorization and provisioning based on user attributes and conversations.
  • Architected a context-aware planner that leveraged conversation memory to select and orchestrate semantic skills, enabling reasoning over multi-step user inputs.
  • Authored a technical white paper outlining system architecture, agentic workflows, and future development scope.
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Projects

Things I've built

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Chrome Extension · Job Search

JobKit

Your entire job search, in one extension.

Discover roles at the world's top companies, apply in minutes, and keep track of everything, all without leaving the browser.

  • Tracks 1,000+ top global MNCs in near real time, straight from their career pages
  • Ranks every role by how well it fits your profile
  • Fills applications in one click and remembers your answers for next time
  • Manages applications, follow-ups, and referrals, with all data kept on your device
JavaScriptChrome Extensions (MV3)ATS IntegrationsGitHub Actions
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AI · Trend Intelligence

Jewels 4 Me

From trending on social media to ready-to-make designs.

Helps a jewellery brand decide what to make next by reading visual trends across social media and turning the strongest into on-brand designs.

  • Collects trending posts from Pinterest, Instagram, and Google Trends
  • Uses AI vision to break every post into design details like stone, metal, shape, and motif
  • Scores and clusters signals across platforms to surface trends that are genuinely rising
  • Generates on-brand design concepts, product renders, and videos from the top trends
TypeScriptNode.jsReactPostgreSQLOpenAIKling AIApify
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AI · Chrome Extension

WebWisdom Buddy

Turn any web page or YouTube video into a conversation.

A Chrome extension that reads the page or video you are on and answers your questions from its actual content, so you get what you need without reading or watching everything.

  • Reads any web page, and YouTube videos through their transcripts
  • Indexes the content in a vector database for fast, relevant retrieval
  • Gives answers grounded in the source with Gemini, keeping context across the conversation
  • Delivers answers in seconds, with smart caching for repeat questions
TypeScriptChrome Extensions (MV3)PythonLangChainGeminiQdrant
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Web3 · Social

Zenoway

A social network owned by its users, not a company.

A decentralised social platform where profiles, posts, likes, and follows live in a smart contract, so no central server controls anyone's data.

  • Winner of the DAppAthon global hackathon
  • A complete social experience on-chain: profiles, posts, likes, follows, and notifications
  • Personalised feed built from the people you follow
  • Wallet-based sign-in, with images stored on IPFS
SolidityReactEthers.jsIPFSPolygon
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Achievements

Highlights & recognitions

Workplace

3

Innovation Champion Award

ShopReel • AI + E-commerce • Hackathon

Built ShopReel, an AI-powered Shopify widget with shoppable video carousels, AI-generated product videos, and virtual try-on features.

Employee of the Quarter

BIK • Excellence

Recognized as Employee of the Quarter at BIK for outstanding contributions and consistent high-quality delivery.

Special Mention for Quarter

BIK • Recognition

Received a Special Mention for the quarter at BIK for exceptional performance and impactful work.

Hackathons

6

UR Hackathon 3.0

Decentralized Blogging • ICP

Built a tokenized content ownership platform on Internet Computer Protocol, ensuring censorship-resistant content publishing.

DAppAthon

Decentralized Social Media • Shardeum

Developed a scalable decentralized social media platform on Shardeum, giving users full control over their data.

Build for the Future

Decentralized Media Storage • IPFS/Filecoin

Created a decentralized storage solution demonstrating Web3 infrastructure potential using IPFS and Filecoin.

Web3 INIT

Multi-chain wallet • Banana wallet

Built a DeFi platform using Banana Wallet's SDK, enabling seamless multi-chain asset management and cross-chain swaps for users.

UR Hackathon 2.0

Demo Day Championship • Shardeum Runner-Up

Developed Open Circle, a decentralized community platform, allowing users to create and manage interest-based communities.

UR Hackathon 1.0

Dossier • ICP

Developed a note taking app on Internet Computer Protocol, allowing users to create and organize notes with decentralization.

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Get in Touch

Let's build something great together

Let's connect

Building something with AI, stuck on a tricky problem, or just want to swap ideas? I'm always up for a good conversation. Drop a message and I'll get back to you soon.

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