Thiyagaraj T (thiyaga)

Director, Engineering @ Eightfold AI

About

Engineering leader building enterprise-grade AI systems using LLMs and real-time voice agents.

Country

India

City

Bengaluru

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Large Language Models (LLM), Agent Development, Open-Source Development, Cloud, Software Design, Apache Ignite, Early-Stage Startups, Web Engineering, Distributed Systems, Product Design, Jira, Git, Team Leadership, Project Management, Product Development, Agile Methodologies, Technical Leadership, System Architecture, Leadership, JavaScript

Experience

Director, Engineering

Eightfold AI

2025-10 - Present · 1 yr

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Engineering Manager

Eightfold AI

2021-11 - 2025-10 · 4 yrs

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Currently leading the Agentic AI Platform engineering team (AI Recruiter, AI Interviewer) - Led end-to-end development of the AI Interviewer platform, partnering with enterprise clients like John Deere and Amgen to scale impact. - Shipped key deliverables for logos such as Starbucks, OneTen, Siemens, Indiana State, and NYS (7m+ AUM). - Authored and applied for two patents (Visual workflow builder for data connectors, AI interviews). - Technical hiring for SDE and SDET roles at multiple levels.

Tech Lead L5 (Acquired by Hypermode)

Dgraph Labs

2020-8 - 2021-11 · 1 yr 4 mos

- Led the cloud console team of Dgraph. - Architect of Dgraph's design system - typhoon-ui, which powers Dgraph Cloud (React) - Launched Dgraph Cloud & Slash GraphQL - Built Dgraph's DB visualizer (React) - Technologies/Libs - React, Javascript, Typescript, GraphQL, Emotion, Webpack, Docker. - Technical hiring

Lead Engineer

mason

2019-1 - 2020-8 · 1 yr 8 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Core contributor of getmason.io - Shopify award-winning web-based design editor that powers 3k+ e-commerce brands to publish content. (React/Preact) - Built product features like image editing macros, evolved Kubric's proprietary low code language. - Built enterprise features that power the content team at Myntra, Swiggy & Dunzo. - Technologies/Libs - React, Javascript, NodeJS, Webpack, Redis, SCSS, Firebase, Docker. - Technical hiring

Software Engineer

BlackRock

2018-1 - 2019-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Gurgaon, India

- Development of infrastructure monitoring tools & dashboards for BMS (BlackRock's in-house messaging queue) - Developed enterprise build quality visualisation app for the engineering organisation. - Active development of web components & build systems using latest frameworks & libraries. (Angular 6, Webpack 4, Gulp, AgGrid) - Actively contributed to improve application mobile responsiveness. - Worked with project managers, technical leads and analysts across the SDLC lifecycle; understand systems requirements, design, development, testing, deployment and documentation. - Experience working with distributed teams across different time-zones and geographies across the globe. - Knowledge and experience in enforcing best practices & methodologies including test driven development (TDD), unit testing discipline, agile development and CI/CD strategies.

Founding Engineer ($2M Seed)

Edify.Club

2016-2 - 2018-1 · 2 yrs

Winuall is an EdTech startup mentored by Facebook's FBStart program. - Frontend Development of LMS (B2B Product) & Landing Page - Designed UI/UX for the core application