# Lakhan Mandloi

> Co-founder of TAFT AI Technologies Private Limited (TAFT AI) and a forward deployed engineer based in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. He embeds with teams, owns problems end-to-end across frontend, backend and DevOps, and ships them to production, using AI tools to move faster without dropping quality. Building products since 2015.

## Current work

- **Co-founder, TAFT AI Technologies Private Limited** (since June 2026): AI products and engineering that ships. Website: https://www.tafttech.ai
- **DevOps Engineer, REVIVE Healthcare Group** (since January 2025, contract, remote): sole DevOps engineer owning CI/CD, infrastructure, deployment and reliability across their SIP and e-commerce systems.

## Previous work

- **CLSA Technology & Services LLP** (2019–2023): Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer. Frontend and GraphQL work on the CITIC CLSA Forums web app and the CLSA corporate website.
- **Tekdi Technologies Pvt Ltd** (2015–2019): Webmaster, then Senior Frontend Developer. UI technical lead for Sunbird and DIKSHA (India's national education platform), the Sunbird documentation portal, the Artificers CSS library and the Tjbase Joomla template used on UIDAI's Aadhaar website.

## Industries

Healthcare (REVIVE Healthcare Group, plus US healthcare projects under confidentiality), e-commerce (REVIVE's e-commerce systems), finance (CLSA, an Asian investment bank and broker) and edtech (Sunbird and DIKSHA, India's national education platform).

## Skills

- AI engineering: AI agents, RAG, LLM evals, MCP (Model Context Protocol), fine-tuning, prompt engineering, Ollama
- AI-assisted engineering: Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, vibe coding
- Security: Microsoft Sentinel, SOC 2 compliance
- Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, HTML, CSS, GraphQL
- Backend: Node.js, Bun, Elysia, GraphQL Yoga, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Prisma
- DevOps and cloud: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), Microsoft Azure, cloud management, DNS management, GitHub Actions, Nginx, Linux, Vercel
- Testing: Playwright, Jest
- Analytics and marketing: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Metabase, LinkedIn marketing
- Practices: full-stack development, custom software development, SaaS, UX and UI design, technical leadership, Agile and Scrum, requirements gathering
- Earlier work also used: PHP, Joomla, WordPress, Jekyll, Angular, Bootstrap, SCSS, Jenkins, CircleCI

## Links

- Website: https://lakhanmandloi.in
- Email: namaste@lakhanmandloi.in
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakhanmandloi
- GitHub: https://github.com/lakhanmandloi
- Company: https://www.tafttech.ai