Summary
Hetav Desai is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 8 years of experience building AI-native product systems and real-time collaborative applications. Currently at Sundial, he focuses on AI analytics agents and simplifying insights consumption for business users, blending TypeScript/React front-ends with Python and FastAPI backends. He previously helped create live classroom experiences at Unacademy, giving him deep practical knowledge of low-latency collaboration and UX-for-scale. Comfortable across modern LLM tooling and production APIs, he bridges research-oriented AI components with pragmatic product engineering. His background as a teaching assistant and early mobile app work reflects a hands-on, user-centered approach to building features that matter. Always curious, he tends to favor building observable, developer-friendly systems that make complex AI behavior easier to reason about.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)