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Shailesh Kala

Full-Stack Engineer · Tech Lead · AI/LLM Engineering

I build AI-powered, multi-tenant, and government-scale platforms end to end. That covers React and Node.js frontends and APIs, all the way to production LLM systems with LangChain, RAG, and MCP. I have 4+ years of experience across EdTech, government, and e-commerce.

Shailesh Kala
4,371commits
643merged PRs
672PRs reviewed
22repositories

Featured work

Things I've led and shipped

Client engagement · Tech Lead

WisdomCircle: second-career platform

Took the platform into the Singapore market

A platform connecting seasoned professionals with organisations for project-based, advisory, and flexible roles. I built frontends and backends and worked directly with the client team through sprint planning, UAT, and story walkthroughs.

  • Built the business onboarding flow, where organisations register, configure their requirements, and engage professionals.
  • Built an end-to-end university mentorship programme: mentor and university onboarding, mentor–programme mapping, scheduling, sessions, and feedback.
  • Designed REST APIs for onboarding, applications, candidate management, and admin portals.
  • Improved performance and accessibility on key journeys and started test automation for regression coverage.
React.jsNode.jsExpress.jsPostgreSQLMongoDBREST APIs

Shashwat Foundation · Built solo, end to end

AI Student & AI Facilitator Communities

Two live MERN products, both built from first commit to launch

Community platforms for students learning AI and for the facilitators who teach them.

  • Built the React.js frontend, Node.js/Express.js REST APIs, and MongoDB data layer from scratch.
  • Shipped community onboarding, content, and engagement features for both audiences.
  • Owned both builds independently, from initial development to public launch.
  • Live at aistudent.community and aifacilitator.community.
MongoDBExpress.jsReact.jsNode.js

Madhi Foundation · Lead Engineer

VallamAI: AI assessment & lesson-planning platform

Deployed for a foundation working across 37,000+ Tamil Nadu government schools

I owned the platform end to end across four repositories (backend, AI service, mobile, and admin portal), covering architecture, delivery, and work with the foundation's leadership.

  • Re-architected a 34k-LOC AI service onto a provider-agnostic LangChain core. Switching between OpenAI and Claude is now a config change.
  • llm_core task registry with a capability system that rejects invalid task↔model pairings at startup.
  • Multi-agent lesson-plan generator: 5 parallel context layers feed 4 concurrent sub-agents and an orchestrator that emits schema-validated JSON.
  • Production RAG over curriculum PDFs and YouTube transcripts (FAISS/pgvector + reranking), plus a custom MCP server.
  • Langfuse prompt management, tracing, and cost attribution, with a RAGAS / LLM-as-judge release gate.
  • Offline-first React Native app (54+ screens) with speech-driven AI assessments.
LangChainOpenAIClaudeRAGMCPLangfuseDjango/DRFFlaskpgvectorCeleryReact NativeNext.js

Invest India / DPIIT · Tech Lead

PMG Portal

3,000+ users migrated with zero downtime

The Government of India's national platform for unblocking infrastructure projects above ₹500 crore.

  • Delivered the IIG–PMG integration, linking 2,000+ projects worth ~₹60 lakh crore.
  • Keycloak SSO and a six-role permission model spanning ministries, states, and districts.
  • Authored 240 PRs and reviewed 514 · Case study →
JavaSpring BootReactElasticsearchKeycloak

SankalpTaru Foundation · Tech Lead, 2.5+ yrs

SankalpTaru

Held up at 4x concurrency with no extra server spend

Tree-plantation donation platform: storefront, Laravel platform, admin, and field app.

  • Delivered two full e-commerce revamps across WordPress and Laravel.
  • Built six-factor weighted search ranking; added Redis + CDN; root-caused slow requests with k6.
  • Supported blockchain-backed provenance for 139,000+ trees.
PHPLaravelWordPressReact NativeRedisk6

More projects

Unos y Otros

Cigar collection & humidor platform. Took it from an empty repo to v1.6.0, with an AI-seeded reference database.

LaravelOpenAI

Agmarknet DemTech

Mobile app for agricultural (mandi) price data. I built features test-first and maintained its unit test suite.

MobileTDD

SRG Profiler

Candidate assessment platform with multi-tenant company scoping, a scoring engine, and report generation.

WordPressGravity Forms

I4F Portal

India–Israel Industrial R&D Fund: partnership workflows, queued jobs, and a partner search API.

LaravelMySQL

Swataleem

Content and campaign dashboard: authentication, nudge/prompt CRUD, campaign filters, and a materialized-view refresh job.

PythonPostgreSQLJavaScript

Gramhal Foundation

Agri-tech for smallholder farmers. I contributed to Flask Admin, an open-source admin package, and to Bolbhav's market-data tooling.

PythonFlask

Side projects

AnswerBubble

Instant FAQ answers + WhatsApp chat for any website. One copy-paste, no server, no tracking.

JavaScriptWidget

alarm-clock-cli

A terminal alarm clock in Python, built with only the standard library.

PythonCLI

Experience

Where I've worked

Software Engineer, Tech Lead / Lead Engineer · ColoredCow

Apr 2022 – Sep 2026 · Gurugram

  • Tech Lead on five flagship engagements: PMG Portal, VallamAI, SankalpTaru, WisdomCircle, and Unos y Otros.
  • Built the WisdomCircle and AISC/AIFC frontends and backends with React.js, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
  • Wrote 4,371 commits and merged 643 PRs across 22 repositories in government, non-profit, e-commerce, and commercial work.
  • Reviewed 672 PRs as the review gate on the platforms I led.
  • Resolved production performance issues with Redis caching, CDN integration, and background-job tuning.

Education

Where I studied

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)

Jodhpur National University · Jodhpur, Rajasthan · 2018 – 2021

Skills

What I work with

Frontend & Mobile

React.jsNext.jsTypeScriptTailwindReact NativeBootstrap

Backend

Node.jsExpress.jsSpring BootLaravelDjango/DRFFlaskCeleryREST APIs

AI / LLM

LangChainOpenAI APIClaude APILangfuseRAGMCPMulti-agentRAGAS

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaPHPSQL

Data & Search

PostgreSQLpgvectorMySQLMongoDBElasticsearchFAISSRedis

DevOps, Auth & Testing

AWSDockerGitHub ActionsKeycloakSentryTDDPlaywrightk6