Kunal Ganglani
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Who I am
AI Architect. Blockchain Builder. Travel Enthusiast.
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 When I close my laptop, I'm either hunting for the perfect late-night icecreams (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 My toolkit
AI / Machine Learning
Blockchain & Web3
Backend & Infrastructure
Frontend & UI
Cloud & DevOps
Data & Storage
Where I've wandered
Selected work
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.
Playground
Tools & games you can use right now
28 developer tools and 12 browser games I built — all free, no sign-up, no ads. Tap in, then get back to reading.
🛠️ Tools
All 28 tools
Live FLUX Image Generator
Type a prompt, get a photoreal image in seconds. Powered by Black Forest Labs FLUX.1-schnell on Hugging Face. No signup.
Open
LLM Hardware Checker
Detect your Mac or GPU and see which open-weight LLMs you can run smoothly — with tokens/sec estimates from 80+ measured benchmarks.
Open
AI Prompt Compressor
Compress and optimize AI prompts to reduce token usage. Remove filler words, shorten phrases, and see cost savings across models.
Open🎮 Games
All 12 games
Flagdle
Guess the country from its flag in 6 tries. Each guess reveals distance, direction, and a proximity score.
Play
Watermelon Merge
Drop fruits and merge same kinds. Cherry → strawberry → grape → all the way to a watermelon.
Play
Connections
Find four groups of four related words. Daily puzzle with shareable emoji grid — see how you stack up.
PlayFrom the notebook
Ollama vs LM Studio 2026: Pick the Right Local LLM Runtime
Local LLM Benchmark Methodology [2026]: TTFT vs tok/s Done Right
AI Coding Assistant Reviews 2026: The Only Buyer Framework That Holds Up
OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for AI Agents [2026]: Ship It
Rust Allocator: jemalloc vs mimalloc vs tcmalloc for P99 [2026]
