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Hi, I’m Renzil.

Founding engineer with 17+ years of experience building products, teams, and businesses. I turn ambiguous problems into working software, own architecture and production, and stay close to customers from MVP to scale.

product · architecture · production

work

Slixta ↗ · Founding Engineer · Co-Founder 2023 — Present

Founding engineer of a SaaS marketing automation platform

  • Architected and built core product systems including a full-featured CRM, email and WhatsApp campaigns, workflow automations and AI-powered content generation
  • Work directly with enterprise customers and manage customer success for deployments with hundreds of daily active users
  • Own architecture, reliability and production operations for a multi-tenant SaaS platform processing millions of daily transactions across thousands of users
Self-employed · Entrepreneur 2019 — 2023

Building products, consulting, and experimenting across technology and business

  • Software engineering consulting for multiple early stage startups
  • Teaching students to build production websites and helping them discover opportunities in tech
  • Built commercial chatbots using Python, Rasa, Docker and DigitalOcean
  • Branding, design and marketing consulting
  • Built a website to find a hospital bed during the Covid emergency
  • Market validation for a sustainable apparel idea through Google and Facebook ads
Adobe ↗ · Engineering Manager & Computer Scientist 2009 — 2019

Engineering leadership and product development across Adobe desktop and cloud products

  • Led engineering for Adobe Presenter Video Express ↗, a desktop screen and webcam video capture and editing tool
  • Invented 3 patents in video segmentation, matting and compositing (US 9786055, US 10546557, US 10621777)
  • Won the Adobe Outstanding Young Engineer Award 2016 (OYEA), as the only engineer in Adobe Bangalore
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contact

I’m open to conversations about founding-engineer and senior engineering roles, or ambitious products that need a technical partner.

renzil@gmail.com ↗