Nautatava Navlakha

Founder

• Operates ~40M HR transactions in production across multi-tenant setup.
• One of only four companies globally to enable biometric aggregation over the cloud.
• Self-engineered RS232-over-network bridges (stream / socket) to lift legacy industrial gear into modern IoT pipelines.
• Removed owner dependency in client orgs by structuring teams that no longer need the founder in the loop — a recurring product win.
• Built internal engineering scaffolding — ESLint configs, CI/CD, coverage gates, code-duplication detection, E2E + integration test harnesses — and NBNext Data Grid, an in-house AG-Grid replacement tuned for the company's workloads.

SDE → Stream Lead → Project Manager → Technical Product Manager

• Closed sales at NSE, Jio Financial Services, and Poonawalla Fincorp.
• Youngest member of the Global Production Support team & Infra Management team.
• Worked on FM-Converge, a cross-asset treasury platform — across SDE, product, infra, support, automated testing, and research.
• Drove ~1000% throughput improvement on deal processing (~5s → <1s) via vectorised pricing & async non-blocking event driven architecture.
• Led fixed-income back-office go-live handling portfolio value > ₹75,000 Cr; implementations at ICICI HFC, IDFC FIRST Bank.
• Introduced dev-sec-ops into the delivery workflow; added non-anonymous LDAP, SSO, and 2FA support to the platform.
• Knowledge expert in Accounting and Fixed-Income Markets.
• Received a Pre-Placement Offer off the 2019 summer internship.

Technical Co-founder

• Took the product from PoC to a production system now serving 65+ countries and ~200M photos/year.
• Shipped (2019) secure facial-data mapping under low-light conditions; built a single-shot face-recognition model trained on 2M+ faces.
• Cut end-to-end processing time to ~1/10th via event-driven architecture, parallel compute, selective caching, and multi-threading.

iitb-gymkhana · Institute System Administrator, Students' Gymkhana

• Migrated the institute's identity infrastructure (~23k users) from LDAP to OAuth 2.0 + OIDC servers — still the core login mechanism for WiFi, Moodle, ASC, Webmail.
• Built auth wrappers so other student developers could drop new SSO logins into their apps without touching the protocol layer.
• Brought server resource usage on legacy boxes from ~60% down to ~3%.
• Built a cryptographically-signed document portal with traceability + verification (AMS) during COVID-19 to digitise decade-old paper workflows.
• Received Institute Organisational Commendation (2020) for excellent performance as Institute System Administrator.

MERN Stack Developer · Summer Internship

• Built an AI-driven job-matching platform for enterprises — single-page progressive web app in React with dynamic API data.
• Server-side rendering + service workers — faster loads, offline job-application support.
• Hardened the career-page pipeline: applications reliably reached S3, with MongoDB failover when MySQL was unavailable.
• Built the landing page from scratch in Express + Jade templating, sprite-optimised; integrated Google Analytics, Google Jobs, SEO.

• GitHub Arctic Code Vault Contributor — Electron, Caprine, Frappe.
• Shipped spell-check for electron-context-menu (4,000+ dependent repos) — long-standing community request, funded via issuehunt.
• Profile: github.com/nautatva · Stack Overflow

ISRO-funded · advised by Prof. Gopal Patil

• Super-resolution + sparse-matrix CNNs + continuity algorithms for narrow-road detection on mid-resolution imagery.
• 90% accuracy on two-lane roads vs. 73% prior state-of-the-art. Archive: /btp.

• Lighthouse 100/100 on SEO, performance, and best practices across every page. Y-o-Y user bump of 106.3%.
• Repo: nautatva/NSS_IIT_Bombay

• Techfest Android app — full ideation, design, code; 4.7/5 on Play Store.
• Internship-blog scraper — BeautifulSoup analysis of IIT-B internship trends.