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The shortest route to a useful system runs through the people doing the work.
Karan Rajput, Pune, India
Builder.
Operator.
One path across customer reality, product, infrastructure, and operation.
I am a forward deployed engineer and co-founder who works across product discovery, AI agents, application engineering, infrastructure, and operations. The role is broad because the customer problem does not respect team boundaries.
The useful question is rarely about what a model can do. It is about what this operation needs to do better tomorrow.
Make the tradeoff
Architecture is choosing which complexity earns its place and which does not.
Own the last mile
Deployment, adoption, observability, and cost are product work.
Keep learning
Production is where the system begins telling the truth.
Two roles. One operating habit.
2025 - Present
ROLE 01Co-founder & Forward Deployed Engineer
CallMissed
Take customer problems from discovery to production. Deploy frontier AI models (LiveKit voice, WhatsApp/Email/Web Chat agents) into real businesses across India - and own the whole stack underneath: architecture, infra, backend, frontend, rollout.
Mar 2026 - Present
ROLE 02Backend & React Intern
AnyFeast
Working on the consumer side of an AI-powered recipe-kit and meal-planning platform - building features that turn user taste preferences into personalised weekly meal plans and grocery orders.