Kunal Ganglani
I build intelligent systems & chase sunsets across continents.
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Who I Am
AI Architect. Blockchain Builder. World Explorer.
I'm Kunal — a Senior Staff Engineer who's spent 14 years turning "what if we could..." into production systems serving millions. Right now I'm deep in AI agents, RAG pipelines, and LLM orchestration in Toronto. I've shipped everything from a Walmart chatbot that 4x'd engagement to crypto accounting systems processing 200K transactions in 5 minutes.
Officially Canadian Quick Facts
When I close my laptop, I'm either hunting for the perfect 2am street dosa (Indore still wins), debating whether Vinland Saga or Attack on Titan has the better character arc, or planning my next trip — 10 countries deep and Japan is next. Born in India's undisputed snacking capital, I believe the best ideas come from mixing things that shouldn't work together.
I'm the kind of person who'll help you debug a model at midnight and then send you a ramen recommendation. If that sounds like someone you'd want to work with — or just grab coffee with — let's talk.
Venice vibes
Lost in the right direction My Toolkit
AI / Machine Learning
Blockchain & Web3
Backend & Infrastructure
Frontend & UI
Cloud & DevOps
Data & Storage
Where I've Been
- Architected unified user experience encapsulating multiple frontend products with WCAG/AODA compliance
- Created CLI developer tools for SOC 2 compliant project scaffolding
- Built reusable component library and set engineering standards for the organization
- Worked with multiple clients remotely providing architecture designs with APIGEEX and TensorFlow
- Built Maps Galileo visualization platform with GIS SDK, ESRI & ArcGIS for delivery area boundary detection
- Wrote Order Cancellation Microservice handling workflows for replacements & refunds
- Utilized Databricks for large-scale data processing and ML-driven business insights
- Migrated Angular to React; created microservices in Go & Node.js
- Built DSS Framework for reusable UI Components (Angular 5) and Barclays React Component Library
- Created Wallet app with React Native and Go backend with Elasticsearch
- Automated Helm-based deployments in Jenkins, accelerating releases by 15%
- Built responsive HCM applications on S/4 HANA; worked with FHIR & HL7 healthcare standards
- Integrated GIS SDK & ArcGIS APIs for location-based services
- Selected for SAP International Fellowship — built SAP CARE app that won the Intra-preneurship Award in Walldorf, Germany
- Developed responsive email campaigns for one of Australia's largest banking & insurance providers
- Created reusable campaign flowchart templates accelerating development by 40%
- Awarded "Rising Star" for outstanding performance
Where I've Wandered
What I've Built
Firework AI Platform
Spearheaded an AI-powered short video generation & live-streaming commerce platform leveraging LLMs, RAG, GraphRAG, and LangChain. Built AI chatbot for Walmart that increased product engagement by 400%.
Bitwave Crypto Accounting
Built a crypto accounting system with blockchain integration processing 200K transactions in 5 minutes. Maintained Solidity smart contracts for DeFi operations and implemented data validation pipelines.
538K+ readersKGtricks.com
Tech blog sharing tips, tricks, and hacks. Launched in 2011, grew traffic by 500% and amassed 538K+ followers. Managed SEO, content strategy, and guest blogger network.
Digital Human Chatbot
AI-driven virtual human chatbot integrating GPT-3, Whisper speech-to-text, Eleven Labs voice synthesis, and Rhubarb lip-sync. Multi-stage pipeline from speech recognition to animated response.
FileChain — Hedera DeFi Transfer
Decentralized file transfer system on Hedera Hashgraph with RSA + AES end-to-end encryption. Implements DRAFT protocol for chunked file transfer with manifest-based metadata tracking.
Cart Experience API
Production-grade Experience API with transparent Salesforce context expiry handling. Clean architecture with 170+ tests, comprehensive API specs, and professional documentation.
Thoughts
Why Most AI Wrappers Will Die
Everyone is building AI wrappers. The ones that survive will own the data pipeline, not the prompt. The moat is in the data flywheel, not the model.
RAG Is the New REST
Just like REST standardized how apps talk to backends, RAG is becoming the default pattern for how apps talk to knowledge. If you're building AI and not thinking in retrieval-augmented terms, you're building a chatbot, not a product.
The Best Engineers Are Translators
Technical skill gets you in the room. The ability to translate between business language and engineering language is what makes you indispensable. I've seen brilliant engineers fail because they couldn't explain why something mattered.
Blockchain Taught Me Patience
I wrote my first Solidity contract in 2021 when everyone said crypto was dead. Two years later I was processing 200K transactions in 5 minutes at Bitwave. The best time to learn something is when nobody's watching.
Travel Is a Debugging Tool
Every country I visit rewires how I think about user experience. Singapore taught me about seamless systems. India taught me about building for chaos. Italy taught me that sometimes the best interface is no interface — just pasta.
Anime Characters Are Better PMs
Hear me out: Erwin Smith from Attack on Titan understood risk tolerance better than any product manager I've worked with. Great leaders in fiction teach the same lessons as great leaders in tech — conviction under uncertainty.