Saurabh Hagawane

Engineer • Architect • AI Systems Builder

Engineering scalable, AI-driven, and cloud-native architectures that translate complex distributed systems into high-performance, maintainable software.

Translating system architecture and product vision into platforms that think, adapt, and scale.

Saurabh Hagawane - Software Engineer & Technical Architect
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About

Systems Mindset

Designing AI-driven backends, data platforms, and real-time infrastructure that balance performance and maintainability.

Product‑First Architecture

Turning complex requirements into clean abstractions, robust APIs, and predictable systems that scale.

Cloud‑Native Craft

Shipping distributed systems on modern cloud stacks with an eye on cost, DX, and operability.

Clarity

Simple interfaces, clear contracts, intentional defaults.

Reliability

Predictable behavior under load with graceful failure modes.

Modularity

Loose coupling, high cohesion, composable building blocks.

Observability

Metrics, tracing, and feedback loops wired from day one.

Selected Builds

KriSync

KriSync

Unified SaaS workspace

50+ beta users
ManageME

ManageME

No‑code analytics

50+ MSMEs
GeetAI

GeetAI

Conversational AI

1M+ msgs

How I Think About Systems

I see every product as a living system that evolves through constraints and learns from feedback. I focus on clarity over complexity, using small composable components, measurable signals, and designs that scale naturally. From the first commit, I build with observability, traceability, and resilience in mind. Good systems avoid irreversible choices, surface failures early, and grow with intent. For me, great engineering means predictable performance, graceful degradation, and clarity that lasts.

"Design with empathy, engineer with intent, scale with clarity."

Engineering Systems That Scale, Evolve, and Endure

Every system I design begins with fundamentals: clarity in architecture, predictability in performance, and resilience under scale. My focus is on translating complex requirements into maintainable systems that can adapt, optimize, and sustain over time.

Engineering in Action

Showcasing credibility through outcomes, not just titles — measurable impact across diverse technical challenges.

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WTE Infra Projects Pvt. Ltd., Pune - Jr. Engineer (Dec 2024 – Present)

Building scalable IoT systems for real-world infrastructure. I lead the design and deployment of an Online Monitoring System (OMS) powering 100+ water and wastewater treatment plants, bridging cloud, IoT, and real-time analytics.

Key Highlights

  • Developed a multi-tenant React dashboard with real-time monitoring, role-based access, and multi-site visualization.
  • Architected a serverless backend using AWS IoT Core, Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB for high-performance data flow.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, enabling automated build, test, and deployment to Vercel.
  • Designed an edge-to-cloud data pipeline using MQTT protocols and embedded gateways for fault detection and analytics.

Impact: Enabled reliable 24/7 monitoring across 100+ sites, improving operational visibility and reducing manual reporting overhead by 60%.

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Dassault Systèmes 3DExperience Lab, Pune - 3DExperience Lab Intern (Dec 2023 – Dec 2024)

Worked across IoT, robotics, and AI research projects — blending real-time data systems with human-like intelligence.

Key Highlights

  • Contributed to FleetSight, a fleet management system integrating IoT and analytics for logistics monitoring.
  • Built AI-driven interactions for a humanoid robot using Llama3 to enable contextual, human-like conversations.
  • Prototyped control systems for a precision suture robot, combining mechanical accuracy with AI feedback.

Impact: Strengthened the lab's AI - IoT integration initiatives, helping prototype next-generation intelligent robotics interfaces.

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Go-Green's Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai - R&D Intern (Jan 2023 – Dec 2023)

Worked on educational IoT tools and community outreach to promote accessible technology learning.

Key Highlights

  • Developed IoT-enabled educational boards for schools and institutions to demonstrate real-world sensor applications.
  • Conducted workshops across Maharashtra on IoT fundamentals and practical applications.

Impact: Trained 200+ students and educators, fostering early adoption of IoT in education.

Systems That Speak

Showcasing the diversity of builds — from platforms to experiments. Each project card feels like a product case study, not just a portfolio piece.

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bldspace

A space for builders to build together

bldspace is a community platform where people share what they are building, find collaborators, and grow ideas into real projects. Each post focuses on the work itself, not followers or likes. Builders connect through contribution requests, discussions, and shared progress. It’s a clean, distraction-free space built around creativity, openness, and meaningful collaboration.

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ROMA

Collaborative Travel Planning Platform

ROMA is a travel planning platform that lets people plan trips together in real time. It brings shared maps, live route visualization, and seamless coordination into one place. The system is built on a scalable cloud setup with geospatial mapping, live data sync, and contextual trip management for a smooth and intuitive planning experience.

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WorldVibe

The Living Social Map

A global platform where people drop short-lived “vibes” (thoughts, photos, or videos) pinned to real locations on an interactive world map. Each vibe lives for 24 hours before fading, creating a constantly evolving view of human emotion and presence across the planet. WorldVibe captures what the world is feeling right now.

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KriSync

Unify, Visualize, and Sync Your Work

KriSync is a unified workspace for developers, freelancers, and small teams to connect all their project data across tools into one interactive canvas. It helps you create project summaries, add integrations, visualize workflows using React Flow, keep notes, set milestones, and track progress all in one place. Designed for those managing multiple projects across platforms, KriSync transforms scattered links and data into a clear, visual narrative of your work.

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GeetAI

Conversational Platform for Spiritual Dialogue

Created an interactive platform that brings the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita into everyday conversations. GeetAI personifies Lord Krishna, offering calm, contextual, and spiritually grounded guidance through natural dialogue. Powered by Gemma 2 and Pinecone, it understands user intent, recalls context, and delivers meaningful multi-turn discussions rooted in timeless teachings.

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Construx

Construction Workflow Management System

Developed a mobile-first platform that streamlines project coordination, progress tracking, and field data management for construction teams. Construx connects labor, activities, and expenses in real time, ensuring accurate updates and transparent communication across teams. Built with React Native and Firebase, it enables seamless collaboration, reporting, and on-site decision-making from any device.

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CollektEase

WhatsApp-Based Billing and Collection Platform

Designed a smart billing system that helps newspaper distributors and local vendors manage monthly collections with ease. CollektEase automates invoice generation and payment reminders through WhatsApp, allows customers to share payment proofs, and simplifies manual verification. Built to handle multi-tenant setups, it offers transparency, faster reconciliation, and effortless cash flow tracking for small businesses.

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ManageME

No-Code Business Analytics Platform

Built a platform that transforms Excel and CSV files into interactive dashboards and insights without writing a single line of code. ManageME helps MSMEs analyze sales, revenue, and performance data through intuitive visualizations, filtering, and reporting. Designed with real-time Firestore syncing and Cloud Functions for automated data processing, it brings enterprise-grade analytics to everyday business users.

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Imagic

AI-Powered Image Generation & Editing Suite

Developed an advanced AI image generation platform with real-time editing capabilities. Integrated state-of-the-art machine learning models for image synthesis, style transfer, and intelligent photo enhancement.

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My Engineering Toolkit

Communicating technical depth and breadth visually — showcasing the full spectrum of technologies and tools I work with.

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C++

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Python

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HTML

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CSS

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JavaScript

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TypeScript

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React

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NextJS

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NodeJS

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React Native

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Flask

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Django

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Ollama

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LLaMA3

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Google Cloud Platform

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AWS

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MongoDB

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PostgreSQL

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FastAPI

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REST APIs

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Perplexity

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Gemini

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Hugging Face

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OpenAI

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Figma

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Vector Database

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FAISS

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Pinecone

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LangChain

RAG

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PyTorch

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Git

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GitHub

DevOps

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WebSockets

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Linux

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Google Maps API

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GitHub Actions

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Vercel

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Postman

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Firebase

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Material UI

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Android

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Pandas

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NumPy

Engineering Principles in Practice

Clear principles, tight feedback, deliberate trade‑offs. Ship with intent, scale with confidence.

Principle

Clarity

Prefer simple contracts, explicit data shapes, and boring solutions that last.

Principle

Predictability

Make behavior obvious under load. Remove ambiguity from failure modes.

Principle

Modularity

Compose small, cohesive parts. Avoid hidden coupling and temporal traps.

Principle

Observability

Metrics, traces, logs from day one. Debug in minutes, not days.

Principle

Evolvability

Minimize irreversible decisions. Migrate safely with dual‑writes and flags.

Principle

Performance

Latency first mindset. Cache, batch, and bound. Measure before tuning.

System Loop

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Trade‑offs I Calibrate

Simplicity ↔ Capability
Typical calibration: 60%
Speed ↔ Safety
Typical calibration: 65%
Cost ↔ Performance
Typical calibration: 55%
Flexibility ↔ Consistency
Typical calibration: 50%
"Ship small, measure hard, refactor with intent. Systems get better when feedback is fast and choices stay reversible."

Blogs

Thought pieces on product, systems, and the craft of building.

Trust is Sacred: The One Rule That Should Change How You Build Your Product

Medium Blog2025

A reflection on designing with respect for people's time. When someone opens an app or signs up for a service, they're making a choice to hand over their time and attention. This means they're trusting you with a slice of their life they'll never get back. The single responsibility is to make it worth it.

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The Algorithm Problem: Visibility, Bias, and the Struggle for New Creators

Medium Blog2025

Why engagement-optimized feeds privilege identity over ideas, bury emerging voices, and create invisible bias—plus thoughts on designing systems that balance scale with fairness and persistence.

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Beyond Screens: Why Generative UI is the Future of Digital Experience

Medium Blog2025

An argument for Generative UI: interfaces synthesized on-demand that adapt to intent, context, and cognition—shifting designers into system thinkers and raising urgent questions about transparency, agency, and ethics.

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Beyond To-Do Lists: Master Your Projects with KriSync’s Visual Workspace

Medium Blog2025

Why projects fail from fragmentation, and how KriSync's visual canvas unifies links, notes, tasks, files, and collaborators into one real-time workspace for freelancers, indie hackers, and small teams.

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The Code is Not Enough: Build Systems, Not Just Software

Medium Blog2025

Why great products require system design—thinking in interdependencies, feedback loops, composability, observability, and long-term behavior—not just shipping features and writing code.

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The One-Sentence Rule: Why Simplicity Transforms Your Projects

Medium Blog2025

How forcing a one-sentence product definition drives clarity, scope discipline, and better execution—using KriSync's evolution from chaos to a crystal-clear visual project workspace as the case study.

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Why Project Management Tools Still Fail Us in 2025: The Unspoken Truth

Medium Blog2025

A critique of modern PM tools: scattered work, no holistic view, weak context capture, painful onboarding, over/under-powered tooling, and rigid models that ignore creative, fluid workflows—plus a call for unified, visual, evolving workspaces.

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Publications & Research

Sharing knowledge through technical writing and research in AI, systems architecture, and scalable engineering.

IoT Enabled Remote Monitoring Application For Telecom SMPS

Research Paper2024

Published research on developing an IoT-based remote monitoring system for Telecom Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS) units. The paper presents a comprehensive solution for real-time monitoring, fault detection, and predictive maintenance of critical power infrastructure in telecommunications.

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What's Next

I’m working toward a future where technology blends naturally into how we build, create, and make decisions.

My focus now is on building platforms that connect intelligence across tools and create systems that learn, adapt, and evolve with real-world use.

The coming years will reshape how people and machines work together, and I want to be part of building that change.

Let's Build Something Meaningful

I'm always open to conversations around AI systems, scalable architectures, or meaningful collaborations.

Let's connect and build something that lasts.