Kartik Puri
AI Product &
Engineering Lead

I design and ship AI-powered systems used by enterprise teams — from architecture to deployment.

Experience8+ years building full-stack systems
LeadershipOwning product engineering, roadmap execution & leading multi-engineer teams
ArchitectureEnterprise-grade systems with SSO, AWS cloud & production deployments
FocusAI copilots, LLM workflows & data systems

00 / Now

What I'm Building
LLMNarrative.com

LLMNarrative.com
AI Narrative Intelligence Platform

Building

A system that evaluates how language models reference your brand, product, and industry context across multiple LLMs.

Why It Matters

  • Provides competitive narrative intelligence from AI ecosystems
  • Highlights strengths and risks in generative model outputs
  • Helps companies shape AI-aware brand strategy
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Molt Olympics

Molt Olympics
Agent-Native Evaluation Framework

Building

A daily challenge arena where autonomous AI agents compete via API submissions, structured identity, and human-in-the-loop scoring. Most AI systems lack transparent, repeatable evaluation mechanisms.

The Idea

  • Register programmatically
  • Submit prompts and outputs
  • Attach artifacts (e.g., generated images)
  • Be evaluated by humans
  • Compete on dynamic leaderboards

System Architecture

  • API-based agent registration
  • Submission pipeline (prompt + output + artifacts)
  • Human voting mechanism
  • Leaderboard ranking engine
  • Agent identity layer via SKILL.md + HEARTBEAT.md

Why It Matters

  • Explores how autonomous agents can self-describe, compete, and evolve within structured evaluation environments.
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01 / Systems I've Built

BlogtoNFT

BlogtoNFT

A Web3 publishing platform that converts blog posts into mintable NFTs — bridging content ownership and blockchain distribution.

ReactWeb3SolidityEthereumFirebase

Impact

  • Launched on Product Hunt (Top 10 Product of the Day)
  • End-to-end NFT minting pipeline

Tech Highlights

  • Quasar frontend & Flask backend
  • Solidity smart contracts
  • Blockchain wallet integration
ProblemWriters lack ownership and monetization options for their content.
SystemDecentralized publishing bridge converting text to on-chain assets.
OutcomeDirect monetization channel for creators via NFT standards.
Tales of Dreams

Tales of Dreams

An AI storytelling engine that generates personalized bedtime stories using dynamic character injection, narrative control, and background audio synthesis.

Vue.jsPython FlaskRedis RQMongoDBOpenAI

Impact

  • Demonstrates production-grade LLM orchestration
  • Real-time audio/text synthesis pipeline

Tech Highlights

  • Prompt templating engine for narrative consistency
  • Async generation pipeline using Redis + RQ workers
  • Integrated AI voice synthesis layer
ProblemStatic bedtime content lacks personalization.
SystemLLM-driven narrative pipeline with async processing.
OutcomeDynamic, custom-generated stories with audio integration.
Barley UI

Barley UI

A zero-dependency semantic UI library built for performance-first web interfaces. Designed to reduce framework overhead and promote clean, maintainable markup.

UI LibraryCSSVanilla JSDesign System

Impact

  • Designed for clarity over abstraction
  • Performance-first architecture

Tech Highlights

  • Pure CSS + Vanilla JS
  • ~8KB gzipped
  • No runtime dependency chain
ProblemModern UI frameworks are bloated and complex.
SystemMinimalist, class-light CSS architecture with zero build steps.
OutcomeUltra-fast, accessible interfaces with minimal footprint.
Click to Blur

Click to Blur

A Chrome extension that prevents revenue leaks by masking sensitive Stripe & Supabase data in public demos and recordings.

Chrome ExtensionPrivacyJavaScriptProductivity

Impact

  • Prevents accidental exposure of production data
  • Improves demo security posture

Tech Highlights

  • DOM mutation observers
  • Dynamic content masking
  • Performance-optimized JS injection
ProblemLive demos risk exposing PII and API keys.
SystemReal-time DOM manipulation to selectively mask sensitive elements.
OutcomeSecure public demos without post-production video editing.

02 / Writing & Essays

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3/21/2025AI

How Repomix Made My AI Coding Workflow So Much Easier

Repomix: The Tool That Helps Me Talk to AI Better Lately, I’ve been using a tool called Repomix a lot—and it’s quickly become a regular part of how I work. If you ever try to explain your codebase to an AI assistant like ChatGPT or Claude, you know h...

2/14/2024ClickHouse

Using clickhouse to transform tick data into OHLC

Introduction In the world of finance, tick data represents the heartbeat of the market, capturing every price change and transaction that occurs. This granular data is invaluable for high-frequency trading strategies, market analysis, and understandi...

11/3/2023Python

Boosting JSON Performance in Python: A Deep Dive into orjson

Introduction Background on JSON in Python JSON, short for JavaScript Object Notation, has become a ubiquitous data interchange format, owing to its simplicity and lightweight nature. In Python, the standard library provides a module aptly named json ...

9/21/2023Python

Python Functions: Writing Better Code with Ease

Introduction Programming is all about functions. They help you organize and reuse code. Python is a popular programming language that has a lot of tools for working with functions. In this guide, we're going to explore Python functions from the basic...

03 / Experience

Sep 2023 – Present

Tech Lead — Incentivate

Aurochs / Incentivate Solutions

Led engineering for enterprise incentive management platform.

  • Headed 10-developer team
  • Defined technical roadmap with CTO
  • Implemented structured PR + release discipline
  • Architected AI copilots for analytics & reporting
  • Managed deployment pipelines on EC2
  • Ensured zero-disruption production releases
Leadership & Impact
Engineering Strategy
  • Transformed ad-hoc interactions into a structured agile process with predictable velocity.
  • Established automated CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time by 60%.
  • Mentored junior developers into effective individual contributors.
Technical Architecture
  • Designed scalable multi-tenant architecture supporting enterprise clients.
  • Integrated GenAI capabilities for automated reporting and insights.
  • Optimized database performance for complex incentive calculation engines.
2020 – Sep 2023

Solutions Consultant

Incentius

Built an end-to-end Web3 application from scratch, leading a small team and owning the full-stack architecture.

  • Led a team of 2 developers to build a complete Web3 application—frontend, backend, smart contract integration, and deployment.
  • Designed the entire system architecture using Vue.js for the UI and Flask + MySQL for backend APIs, authentication, and metadata services.
  • Integrated Solidity smart contracts to enable NFT minting, ownership logic, and blockchain interactions.
  • Built a secure admin interface for minting tokens and managing metadata.
  • Implemented seamless wallet connection flows, transaction handling, and blockchain event tracking.
  • Handled CI/CD, environment setup, and deployment processes to ensure stable releases.
Impact & Contributions
Key Highlights
  • Delivered a production-ready NFT marketplace experience (minting, viewing, and managing assets).
  • Collaborated closely with designers to ensure the app felt polished and accessible to non-technical users.
  • Simplified the blockchain layer for the business team by abstracting contract calls into clean backend utilities.
Responsibilities Beyond Code
  • Participated in tech hiring processes & conducted technical interviews.
  • Provided R&D support — prototyping quick solutions with new frameworks (Quasar, Strapi, Gatsby, Gridsome).
  • Contributed to internal tools, accelerators, and early product experiments.
2017 – 2020

Solutions Developer

Incentius

A strong foundation phase where I built search systems, dashboards, data pipelines, and full-stack web apps.

  • Developed complex backend + frontend applications using Python, Vue.js, AngularJS, MySQL, and Elasticsearch.
  • Designed and implemented data cataloging and profiling systems — including ingestion pipelines, log dashboards, and search-heavy interfaces.
  • Built BI dashboards that leveraged Elasticsearch logs and relational data to visualize KPIs and insights.
  • Created admin dashboards and automated scripts using Python + Pandas for daily data processing.
Key Projects
Search Organisation Web App
  • Led a team of 2 to build the platform from scratch.
  • Built a custom search engine using Elasticsearch, Python, and MySQL.
  • Created geo-mapping UI with Google Maps API to visualize organizations and hotspots.
  • Designed dashboards with charts (pie, bar, line) for decision-making.
  • Directly handled client communication (UK) for requirements & weekly updates.
Salesforce LWC Dashboard
  • Built Lightning Web Components to display analytics and KPIs for sales reps.
  • Integrated backend APIs to deliver fast, interactive dashboards.
Mapping Tool
  • Developed a map interface to plot locations and display data dynamically using Flask + AngularJS + Google Maps.
Survey Portal
  • Built complete user management and backend workflows using Python, MySQL & Bootstrap.
Jun 2014 – Jun 2017

Co-Founder

Mystery Monks

04 / Skills & Tools

Architecture
  • System design
  • Async workers
  • Event flows
  • Data pipelines
AI & Data
  • OpenAI API
  • LangChain
  • RAG
  • ClickHouse
  • ElasticSearch
  • Pandas
Backend
  • Python
  • Flask
  • FastAPI
  • Redis
  • RQ
  • SQL
Frontend
  • Vue
  • Quasar
  • React
  • Tailwind
Infra
  • Docker
  • EC2
  • Nginx
  • CI/CD
  • Git