Kashif Eqbal is a Director-level engineering leader with 10+ years building privacy-first, production-grade AI and cloud systems across startups in healthcare, creator tooling, and edge computing. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering (Next.js, React Native, Python/FastAPI) with infra expertise—deploying Kubernetes on GCP, Terraform automation, and Kafka→ClickHouse analytics—to take research ideas to scalable products. As CTO/Director at multiple ventures he’s grown teams from single developers to 15–20 engineers, instituted hiring pipelines and budgets, and filed deep‑tech patents around on-device therapeutic reasoning and agent orchestration. He pioneered on-device small language models and multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph workflows) while designing secure attestation and privacy architectures for regulated health applications. Notably, he has migrated large content platforms to modern headless stacks and shipped real-time analytics for millions of daily users, demonstrating both operational rigor and product impact. Based in Gurugram, he’s actively exploring collaborations in deep‑tech AI, healthcare, and edge-first systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at The ICFAI University, Dehradun
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Kashif Eqbal - Director - Engineering at Tap Health