Thiyagaraj T (thiyaga)

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of AI Interviewer platform for major enterprises.
Architected Dgraph's design system for cloud applications.
Core contributor to award-winning e-commerce design editor.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EdTech expert with strong leadership in AI and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agent DevelopmentLarge Language Models (llm)CloudTeam LeadershipReactWeb DevelopmentAngularFrontend DevelopmentUi/ux Design

Other Skills

JavaScriptGraphQLKubernetesReduxNodeJSApache IgniteWebpackGulpGitEarly-Stage StartupsOpen-Source DevelopmentSoftware DesignProduct DesignJiraProject Management

About

Engineering leader building enterprise-grade AI systems using LLMs and real-time voice agents.

Experience

8 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Eightfold

2 roles

Director, Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Senior Engineering Manager

Nov 2021 – Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Currently leading the Agentic AI Platform engineering team (AI Recruiter, AI Interviewer)
Led end-to-end development of the AI Interviewer platform, partnering with enterprise clients like John Deere and Amgen to scale impact.
Shipped key deliverables for logos such as Starbucks, OneTen, Siemens, Indiana State, and NYS (7m+ AUM).
Authored and applied for two patents (Visual workflow builder for data connectors, AI interviews).
Technical hiring for SDE and SDET roles at multiple levels.

Agent DevelopmentLarge Language Models (LLM)

Dgraph labs

Tech Lead L5 (Acquired by Hypermode)

Aug 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

Led the cloud console team of Dgraph.
Architect of Dgraph's design system - typhoon-ui, which powers Dgraph Cloud (React)
Launched Dgraph Cloud & Slash GraphQL
Built Dgraph's DB visualizer (React)
Technologies/Libs - React, Javascript, Typescript, GraphQL, Emotion, Webpack, Docker.
Technical hiring

CloudTeam Leadership

Mason

Lead Engineer

Jan 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Core contributor of getmason.io - Shopify award-winning web-based design editor that powers 3k+ e-commerce brands to publish content. (React/Preact)
Built product features like image editing macros, evolved Kubric's proprietary low code language.
Built enterprise features that power the content team at Myntra, Swiggy & Dunzo.
Technologies/Libs - React, Javascript, NodeJS, Webpack, Redis, SCSS, Firebase, Docker.
Technical hiring

KubernetesReduxReactWeb Development

Blackrock

Software Engineer

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr · Gurgaon, India · On-site

Development of infrastructure monitoring tools & dashboards for BMS (BlackRock's in-house messaging queue)
Developed enterprise build quality visualisation app for the engineering organisation.
Active development of web components & build systems using latest frameworks & libraries. (Angular 6, Webpack 4, Gulp, AgGrid)
Actively contributed to improve application mobile responsiveness.
Worked with project managers, technical leads and analysts across the SDLC lifecycle; understand systems requirements, design, development, testing, deployment and documentation.
Experience working with distributed teams across different time-zones and geographies across the globe.
Knowledge and experience in enforcing best practices & methodologies including test driven development (TDD), unit testing discipline, agile development and CI/CD strategies.

Apache IgniteAngularWeb Development