Engineering leader based in New Delhi. I build and lead teams that ship mobile/backend platforms at scale — currently running Integrations engineering (Mobile + Backend) at Kulu, shipping 12-15+ concurrent partner integrations on Guinea's mobile money platform.
Impact, by the numbers:
- 📈 Built a Kotlin Multiplatform analytics SDK powering 300M+ MAUs at JioHotstar, driving an 18% lift in watch-time
- ⚡ Cut iOS build times from 60+ min to ~25 min, and prototyped a Bazel migration bringing cold builds down to ~5 min at Kulu Wallet
- 🚀 Accelerated feature time-to-market by 35% by rebuilding CI/CD across 12+ repos at JioHotstar
- 💸 As CTO at Slash, cut UPI payment failures by 23%, driving an estimated $0.5M/mo GMV increase
- 🏆 Shipped 4 major launches (IPL, Big Boss) ahead of schedule with 0 release-day rollbacks
Stack:
- 🕰 Previously: Engineering Lead (Platform) @ JioHotstar (Viacom18) · CTO @ Slash (Greenbacks Technologies) · Founding team @ Coding Blocks
- 🌱 GSoC'20 @ Oppia — Android interaction components & Bazel build system adoption
- 🧪 Currently tinkering with: Bazel for Kotlin Multiplatform builds, and agentic dev tooling (Claude Code) in my own workflow
- 📫 aggarwalpulkit596@gmail.com · LinkedIn