AI Architecture
Designing intelligent AI systems, agentic workflows and enterprise automation - from LLM integration and RAG pipelines to multi-agent orchestration in production.
- AI Agents
- RAG
- Multi-Agent Systems
- LLM Integration
Available for consulting & advisory
Lalit Fauzdar
CTO • AI Architect • Founder • Entrepreneur
I own products end-to-end - from real user pain points to AI systems and industrial automation platforms that turn ideas into scalable, category-defining businesses.
Years Leading Engineering
Products Built
Businesses Consulted
Users Served
About
Technology is leverage. I build the lever.
I'm a founder, product owner and CTO who has spent the last seven years starting companies and building the technology inside them - a unified highly intelligent EdTech ecosystem, the world's first Sanskrit news app, SaaS platforms, ERPs, CRMs, industrial IoT systems and AI automation for businesses that had never written a line of code. I don't just write code or lead teams - I own the product end-to-end, from the first real user pain point to the system that ships.
My work sits at the intersection of engineering and business. An MBA in finance and a B.Tech in computer science means I read a balance sheet and a system diagram with the same eyes, so architecture decisions are made against runway, unit economics, user experience and the team you can actually hire, not just elegance.
As a leader, I build small teams that ship. At Unlock Velocity alone I've led 70+ projects across e-commerce, health tech, edtech and manufacturing, helping scale company revenue 5x through on-time delivery of well-built products - and I've mentored engineering teams, including for the Indian Army. I've stayed hands-on throughout: ESP32 firmware with self-designed custom PCBs on a factory floor, patentable software built solo, multi-agent AI pipelines in production. The common thread: take an ambiguous business problem, find the system inside it, and ship the version that scales.
Technical Leadership
CTO across multiple ventures: strategy, hiring and execution rhythm.
Entrepreneurship
Four companies co-founded. I've owned the P&L, not just the codebase.
Product Ownership
Vision, roadmap, design, deployment, stakeholders - I act like a founder on every front, not just an engineer.
Architecture Thinking
Systems designed for the second year, not just the demo.
Expertise
What I bring to the table
Seven years of building companies compressed into six disciplines - each one battle-tested in production, not theory.
IoT Automation
Industrial automation with ESP32 and embedded systems - PLC integration, machine monitoring, real-time analytics and predictive maintenance on the factory floor.
- ESP32
- Machine Monitoring
- PLC Integration
- Real-time Analytics
Startup Technology
Owning products end-to-end for founders - from real user pain points to shipped systems - pragmatic stack choices, product architecture and the engineering discipline to ship fast without breaking later.
- MVP to Scale
- SaaS
- Product Architecture
- Startup Consulting
Full Stack Engineering
Modern web applications end to end - TypeScript across the stack, resilient backend systems, clean APIs and interfaces that feel fast everywhere.
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- React / SolidJS
- PostgreSQL
Cloud Infrastructure
Deployment and scale without the drama - Docker, Cloudflare, CI/CD pipelines and server architecture designed for reliability and cost efficiency.
- Docker
- Cloudflare
- CI/CD
- Server Architecture
Engineering Leadership
Building teams that ship - hiring, mentoring, technical planning and the execution culture that turns a roadmap into released product.
- Hiring
- Mentoring
- Technical Planning
- Execution
Experience
Six companies. One through-line: ship.
Founder, CTO and consultant - often in parallel. Every role below is a business I either started or was trusted to build the technology for.
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Chief Technology Officer
Unlock Velocity · Full-time
Jun 2021 - Present
Delhi, India · Hybrid
Leading technology and engineering for a growth-focused company - owning product architecture, AI-driven automation and the engineering roadmap from strategy to shipped software.
- Led 70+ projects across e-commerce, health tech, edtech and manufacturing, helping scale company revenue 5x through on-time delivery of well-built products.
- Took an industrial IoT platform for a ₹500+ crore manufacturer from concept to reality - hardware selection through AI-powered cloud deployment - delivering a 2x productivity gain with real-time visibility across 150 machines.
- Own end-to-end technology strategy, translating business goals into product architecture and delivery plans.
- Built and mentored the engineering team, establishing review culture, hiring bars and execution rhythm.
- SaaS
- Industrial IoT
- AI Automation
- React.js
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Cloudflare
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Co-Founder & CTO
One Zone Online · Self-employed
Mar 2022 - Present
Faridabad, Haryana, India · On-site
Co-founded One Zone Online Private Limited (Ozoo) and lead its technology - building the platform, infrastructure and automation that run the business day to day.
- Designed and delivered a microservices-based SaaS suite tailored for retail, restaurants and hyper-local businesses, acting as both technical architect and product owner.
- Shaped a 30+ feature Point-of-Sale system that outperformed top competitors, earning 90%+ positive user feedback.
- Own cloud infrastructure, deployment and reliability across the product surface.
- SaaS
- Microservices
- POS Systems
- React.js
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
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Tech Consultant
Fauzdar1 · Consulting
Jan 2023 - Present
Delhi, India · Hybrid
My consulting practice - aligning technology strategy with business objectives across software, hardware and network solutions for startups and industrial clients.
- Advise founders and operators on technology strategy, stack selection and product architecture.
- Design AI automation and agentic systems that remove operational bottlenecks for client businesses.
- Deliver industrial IoT and machine monitoring solutions, from ESP32 firmware to analytics dashboards.
- Act as fractional CTO - hiring, roadmaps and engineering execution for early-stage teams.
- AI Agents
- IoT
- ESP32
- Cloud Architecture
- CTO Consulting
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Co-Founder & Managing Director
ProInk Hub Services · Self-employed
Mar 2024 - Present
Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid
Co-founded ProInk Hub Services Private Limited - running the company as Managing Director and applying technology-first operations to a services business.
- Set up the company from incorporation to operations, owning strategy, partnerships and P&L.
- Digitized core workflows early, building automation into the business instead of bolting it on later.
- Business Automation
- Product Strategy
- Operations
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Co-Founder
Varta Technologies · Full-time
Oct 2021 - Apr 2023
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Technical co-founder of Varta - the world's first app-based news platform in Sanskrit. From curating the idea with my co-founder to shipping the product.
- Built proprietary audio-streaming and multi-lingual translation technology, including Sanskrit, to power the platform's content experience.
- Designed smart, scalable notification infrastructure to reliably reach readers at consumer scale.
- Took a novel product from concept to a live consumer app in a language no news platform had served before.
- Established and administered the company budget to maximize sustainability objectives.
- Mobile Apps
- Audio Streaming
- Multi-lingual
- Node.js
- Content Platforms
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Co-Founder & Lead - Tech & HR
Cyndi Technologies · Full-time
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Co-founded an EdTech startup with a vision to build an ecosystem for every peer of the education system - students, teachers, colleges, universities and regulators.
- Led creation of a futuristic EdTech ecosystem with first-of-their-kind features and unique dashboards tailored to students, teachers, universities and organizations.
- Headed the software development team of 7 while contributing as a full-stack developer.
- Researched and developed patentable software innovations solo, working alone on core R&D.
- Directed technological improvements that reduced waste and business bottlenecks.
- EdTech
- Full Stack
- Team Leadership
- R&D
AI Systems
Building the Future with AI
I design AI systems that do real work - not demos. Agents that read, decide and act inside business processes, with the architecture, guardrails and observability to run unattended in production.
AI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
Autonomous and semi-autonomous agents that operate across tools, APIs and data - orchestrated, supervised and safe to leave running.
RAG & Knowledge Systems
Retrieval pipelines that ground LLMs in your documents, databases and domain - accurate answers instead of confident guesses.
Business & Enterprise AI
AI woven into CRMs, support desks, document flows and operations - measured in hours saved and revenue moved, not tokens burned.
AI Workflow Automation
End-to-end automation where LLMs handle judgment and code handles everything else - with humans in the loop where it matters.
Prompt & Context Engineering
Structured prompting, evaluation loops and context design that make model behavior predictable enough to build a business on.
AI Architecture
Model selection, cost control, latency budgets and failure modes - the unglamorous decisions that decide whether AI features survive contact with users.
Industrial IoT
From Factory Floor to Dashboard
I connect machines to decisions. ESP32 nodes on the shop floor, telemetry pipelines in the cloud, and dashboards that tell a plant head exactly which machine is bleeding money - in real time.
ESP32 & Embedded Systems
Custom firmware, sensor integration and resilient connectivity for industrial environments that eat consumer hardware alive.
Machine Health Monitoring
Vibration, temperature, current and cycle-count telemetry turned into machine health scores and downtime alerts.
Factory Automation
PLC integration and control systems that automate repetitive production steps and remove manual data collection entirely.
Production Analytics
OEE, throughput and rejection dashboards computed from live sensor streams - the numbers a factory actually runs on.
Predictive Monitoring
Trend detection and threshold intelligence that flags failing equipment before it stops the line.
Remote Monitoring & Industrial AI
Multi-site visibility from anywhere, with AI layered on top of machine data to answer 'why' - not just 'what'.
Projects
Selected work
Products I've founded, architected or delivered - from factory-floor telemetry to consumer apps. Screenshots are illustrative placeholders.
Industrial Automation
Industrial IoT Platform
Took an industrial IoT platform for a ₹500+ crore manufacturer from concept to reality - hardware selection through AI-powered cloud deployment - delivering real-time visibility across 150 machines and a 2x productivity gain.
- ESP32
- MQTT
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Real-time
Manufacturing Analytics
Machine Monitoring Dashboard
Real-time machine health and OEE dashboard for manufacturing - downtime tracking, production counts and predictive maintenance signals operators actually use.
- IoT
- Analytics
- Time-series
- Dashboards
Enterprise AI
AI Automation Systems
Agentic automation for business operations - AI agents that read, decide and act across CRMs, inboxes and internal tools, with human-in-the-loop guardrails.
- AI Agents
- LLMs
- RAG
- Workflows
Consumer Product
Ozoo CRM & POS
Microservices-based SaaS suite for retail, restaurants and hyper-local businesses - a 30+ feature Point-of-Sale system deployed for Canadian businesses that outperformed top competitors with 90%+ positive user feedback.
- Microservices
- POS
- SaaS
- Founding Team
More work
Real Estate CRM
A purpose-built CRM for real estate teams - lead pipelines, site-visit scheduling and automated follow-ups that turn inquiry chaos into a closing process.
- SaaS
- CRM
- Automation
SaaS Product Platform
Multi-tenant SaaS foundation reused across ventures - auth, billing, roles and deployment baked in, so new products start at feature one instead of week zero.
- Multi-tenant
- TypeScript
- Cloudflare
Single/Multi Vendor Ecommerce
Custom in-house single/multi vendor ecommerce - production-grade platform built for Canadian clients and users, with multi-payment structure, detailed admin panel and high-level security.
- Ecommerce
- Online Selling
- NextJS
Business Automation Suite
Operations automation for consulting clients - document pipelines, notification systems and internal tools that quietly delete hours of manual work every week.
- Automation
- Internal Tools
- Integrations
Skills
The toolbox
Technologies and disciplines I reach for - grouped by where they earn their keep.
AI & Automation
- AI Agent Development
- AI Architecture
- RAG Pipelines
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Prompt Engineering
- LLM Integration
- AI Workflows
- Business AI
Frontend
- Astro
- SolidJS
- React
- Next.js
- Flutter
- TypeScript
- TailwindCSS
Backend
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
- REST APIs
- WebSockets
Cloud & DevOps
- Cloudflare
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Server Architecture
- Monitoring
IoT & Embedded
- ESP32
- Embedded Systems
- Industrial Automation
- Machine Monitoring
- MQTT
- Sensor Networks
Architecture
- Product Architecture
- SaaS Architecture
- Cloud Infrastructure
- System Design
- Data Modeling
Leadership & Strategy
- Technical Leadership
- Team Building
- CTO Consulting
- Product Strategy
- Startup Scaling
- Hiring & Mentoring
Contact
Let's build something that matters.
Whether it's an AI system, a factory that needs eyes, or a product that needs a CTO - if it's ambitious and real, I want to hear about it.
Email [email protected] Phone +91 894 786 5838 LinkedIn in/fauzdar1 GitHub @fauzdar1 StackOverflow @lalit-fauzdar
Based in Delhi NCR, India · working worldwide