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Lalit Fauzdar

Available for consulting & advisory

Lalit Fauzdar

CTO • AI Architect • Founder • Entrepreneur

I architect intelligent software, AI systems and industrial automation platforms that transform ideas into scalable businesses.

7+

Years Leading Engineering

50+

Products Built

30+

Businesses Consulted

500K+

Users Served

About

Technology is leverage. I build the lever.

I'm a founder 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.

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 and the team you can actually hire, not just elegance.

As a leader, I build small teams that ship. I've recruited and mentored engineers, set technical strategy across four companies simultaneously, and stayed hands-on from ESP32 firmware with self-designed custom PCBs on a factory floor to 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 Mindset

Features are bets. I architect so the winning bets can scale.

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.

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

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

Helping founders take MVPs to scalable SaaS products - 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.

  1. 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.

    • Own end-to-end technology strategy, translating business goals into product architecture and delivery plans.
    • Architected and shipped SaaS platforms with modern web stacks, cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
    • Introduced AI automation into core workflows, cutting manual operations and accelerating client delivery.
    • Built and mentored the engineering team, establishing review culture, hiring bars and execution rhythm.
    • SaaS
    • React.js
    • Node.js
    • TypeScript
    • PostgreSQL
    • Cloudflare
  2. Co-Founder & CTO

    One Zone Online · Self-employed

    Mar 2022 - Present

    Faridabad, Haryana, India · On-site

    Co-founded One Zone Online Private Limited and lead its technology - building the platform, infrastructure and automation that run the business day to day.

    • Designed and built the company's platform end-to-end, from data model to customer-facing product.
    • Automated business operations with custom internal tooling, keeping the team lean while scaling volume.
    • Own cloud infrastructure, deployment and reliability across the product surface.
    • SaaS
    • React.js
    • Node.js
    • PostgreSQL
    • Docker
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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.

    • Planned, developed and managed Varta's entire software platform and technical requirements.
    • 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.
    • Led recruitment and strategic alliances to maximize existing talent and capabilities.
    • Mobile Apps
    • Node.js
    • Content Platforms
    • Product
  6. 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.

    • Headed the software development team of 7 while contributing as a full-stack developer.
    • Researched and developed patent-able technological solutions, working solo on core R&D.
    • Directed technological improvements that reduced waste and business bottlenecks.
    • Set, enforced and optimized internal policies for efficient operations across the firm.
    • 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

End-to-end industrial IoT platform connecting factory machines over ESP32 nodes - live telemetry, MQTT ingestion, alerting and a control plane for entire production lines.

  • 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

One-stop Inventory, CRM and POS - Inventory and POS system implemented and deployed for Canadian businesses, with modern Point of Sale system for easy selling.

  • Mobile
  • Content Platform
  • 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/mutli vendor Ecommerce - production-grade ecommerce built for Canadian clients and users, with multi-payment structure, detailed Admin panel and high-level security.

  • Ecommerec
  • 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.