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D Rupesh Kumar
A chain of islands from the CLAY founder island through hardware, geospatial, SpaceTech, voice AI and fintech

Journey

A founder’s
beginning.
A builder’s journey.

CLAY was the first island.
The journey kept growing.

People
Systems
A brighter tomorrow
Different domains.
A more connected tomorrow.

Selected chapter

CLAY - Entrepreneurship

Founded a location-based social networking platform. Backend APIs / Android app / Real-time location / User matching.

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Every chapter

  1. CLAY - Entrepreneurship

    Founded a location-based social networking platform. Built the full stack — backend APIs, Android app, real-time location services, and user matching system.

  2. IoT Women Safety DevicePATENTED

    Patented a wearable IoT device using crowd-sourced proximity alerts. Built a real-time search system achieving sub-500ms lookups across 1 million user records.

  3. Digital Hearing Aid — AIIMS

    Built an affordable digital hearing aid using STM microcontroller boards, in collaboration with AIIMS Raipur doctors. Achieved 60% noise reduction through custom DSP algorithms.

  4. Deloitte USI

    Built an Organization Space Calculator analyzing seat allocation for up to 10K employees with 20+ sharing strategies.

  5. LocationIQ / Unwired Labs

    Optimized geocoding and geolocation APIs serving 1 billion daily requests. Built schedulers processing 10-20M daily jobs and enrichment pipelines parsing 4.8 million records daily against a database of 200M cell towers and 4B WiFi access points.

  6. Skyserve.ai — Founding Engineer

    Founding engineer. Built an ML Ops platform for satellite edge computing, reduced model onboarding from months to 2-3 days. Developed synthetic image generator (250+ frames), data rendering system (700+ datasets), and led 4 product launches.

  7. SeekOut — Senior SWE

    Architected agentic AI for hiring at scale. Built PitchBot voice pipeline (Deepgram/Cartesia/Pipecat), re-engineered GitHub indexing for ~50M profiles, and improved profile matching accuracy from 45% to 89%.

  8. Motilal Oswal — SVP, EngineeringCURRENT

    Built the e-KYC platform onboarding millions of retail customers, lead agentic AI across teams, and re-architected legacy platforms into a modern, cloud-native stack at one of India's largest financial services firms — improving system performance by up to 80%.