Hi, I'm Ketan 👋
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About
Engineer at Emergent (YC S24). Ex-Google.
I automate my problems away. The patent committee at Google got involved once.
Beyond that: building agents, traveling, and chasing whatever's interesting this month.
Work Experience
Building agent-first systems and intelligent backends - pushing the same agentic loops I shipped at Google into the next product surface.
- Eliminated a resource leak that was driving ~$1.4M/yr in MongoDB Atlas overspend, flattening a runaway cost curve.
- Shipped production AI support agents on an MCP tool architecture, with authorization-gated tools that keep destructive actions out of the model's hands.
- Built end-to-end Stripe chargeback automation: a webhook-driven decision engine replacing a fully manual finance workflow.
Built agent systems and secure-access infrastructure for production debugging at scale.
- Designed and deployed a secure browser-based VM access platform that lets engineers debug production infrastructure without direct SSH.
- Architected a Go WebSocket relay on Kubernetes that bridges browser WSS traffic to TCP VNC servers for scalable remote console access.
- Shipped an Angular + noVNC browser console interface that replaced manual CLI workflows and improved operational accessibility by 100%.
- Engineered 18+ AI agent systems POC's on Google ADK, FastAPI, and Vertex AI to automate NOC alert investigation pipelines - reducing manual triage by ~40%.
- Created Dev0, an AI-driven infrastructure orchestration platform that integrates Terraform + CI/CD for automated provisioning.
- Implemented Human-in-the-Loop safeguards to prevent destructive infrastructure mutations in automated deployments.
- Authored Google ADK + GCP deployment documentation that cut team onboarding time by 50% and errors by 15%.
Frontend modules for tax workflows - engagement, validation, and page-load wins.
- Built the Tax Savings Deductions module in React, Tailwind, and TypeScript with structured financial input validation.
- Drove a 30% lift in product engagement and a 40% drop in incorrect tax submissions through improved validation workflows.
- Spearheaded a full rewrite of the Loans Summary module using React + TypeScript, enabling adaptive display of deduction categories and cutting page load time by 50%.
- Implemented real-time updates, edit/remove workflows, and an incremental form architecture.
- Optimized frontend rendering pipelines to improve interaction speed by 40%.
B.E. Computer Science · CGPA 7.94.
- Certifications: AWS Cloud Technical Essentials, Web Development, Software Testing.
My Projects
Check out my latest work
A few favorites: agents, AI products, and full-stack builds.
Origin
Reads your real GitHub history, verifies your skills with AI, and routes you to roles that match what you can actually do.
Claude Sessions
macOS menu bar app that lists all your Claude Code sessions - click one to pick up where you left off.
HR Talent Match
A recruiter chats with an agent, refines in plain language, and gets ranked candidate cards back.
claude-code-spotify
Control Spotify from your terminal, with the live synced lyric of whatever's playing in your Claude Code statusline.
Resume Shortlisting Agent
Reads applications from Google Sheets, parses resumes from Drive, and shortlists top candidates with LLMs.
Imagine
AI image generation studio - Next.js, Clerk, Cloudinary, Stripe. 2000+ daily transformations.
The Cold Email That Got Replies From Founders, CTOs, and Engineering Managers
I lost a Claude conversation and ended up shipping a Mac app
Bringing Spotify Directly into Your Claude Code Statusline
Build your Agent: A Deep Dive into Google ADK and Streamlit Integration
The 60-Year-Old Algorithm We Thought Was Unbeatable Just Got Dethroned
Why Google Put Its Billions of Lines of Code Into One
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