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Kiran Capoor
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Engineering Leader & hands-on engineer · Pune, India
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9+ years shipping software and, more recently, building the teams that ship it. I still write code — I just also own the roadmap now.
open to engineering leadership & senior IC roles · available in ~30 days
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# impact
man kiran →// the numbers, before the narrative.
- 166
- services & apps migrated98 services + 68 apps · AU → UK AWS · SiSU
- ~30%
- faster client data exportsvia Halo orchestration · SiSU
- 3x
- dept revenue₹4Cr → ₹12Cr · Schbang
- 15→66
- team scaledeng, UX/UI & PM · Schbang
- ~25%
- faster app perf13+ services off legacy · Oaktree
- ~50%
- faster dev turnaroundplan→design→implement · Oaktree
# side_projects
ls -la →// built because the existing tool annoyed me enough to fix it myself.
TruADHD
An independently verified ADHD provider directory for Pune & PCMC.
Wizard
Persistent memory, skills, modes, and work triage for AI coding agents.
Alchemist
A local-first Rust agentic coding CLI built around harness strength, not model faith.
# latest_writing
tail -f →// long-form notes on AI tooling, agent memory, and why your dotfiles are probably fine.
- The Eighteen-Month Engineer — A decade of short stints reads as instability until you see the clock underneath it: a brain wired for novelty does its best work at the start of things and runs out of road on solved problems — and the hiring filter double-taxes exactly that profile.
- The Tools Are the Brain — Getting diagnosed with ADHD late, and realizing every tool I'd built — Wizard, Forge, Wand, Ritual — was externalized cognition all along: push-not-pull systems that arrive instead of waiting to be visited.
- I built a Neovim plugin that physically won't let me skip a break — The forced-break Pomodoro system in Wand.nvim, and an undo-corrupting file write an AI code review caught inside it.
# ctrl_alt_tech
youtube-dl →// screen-recorded deep dives on editors, tooling, and the engineering nobody demos.
