Hi, I'm
Indira Kumar
I build AI tools 5,000 engineers actually use
Currently @ Thermo Fisher · Open to remote roles
Experience
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Software Engineer, AI & internal platforms · May 2024 – Present · Bangalore
- Shipped an AI-powered service-ticket assistant from concept to production in 2 months - serves 5,000+ daily field engineers at 99.99% uptime, saving an estimated $3.5M a year.
- Built a customer-intelligence platform on FastAPI and Databricks that automates competitor analysis and surfaces upsell opportunities - generating $3.5M+ in annual revenue.
- Scaled an internal document-search tool from PoC to 7,000+ daily users, with chat history and cross-document search on Azure AI Search.
- Increased document-indexing throughput 7x by automating the ingestion pipeline; onboarded 400 repos via custom integrations with SharePoint, S3, Bynder, and Fluidtopics.
FastAPIAngularPostgreSQLDatabricksAzure OpenAIAzure AI SearchMCP
Pancakes
Founder & Engineer, 0-to-1 product · May 2025 – Dec 2025 · Remote
- Built and shipped Reflect - a plug-and-play feedback widget with a 3-line integration - from MVP to 20+ DAU in 3 weeks.
- Sunset Reflect after 7 months when retention testing didn't justify continuing.
- Backend on FastAPI and Terraform across GCP/AWS RDS; sub-500ms global load times via Cloudflare CDN; 40% lower API latency from async processing on Celery and RabbitMQ.
FastAPIReactTerraformGCPCloudflareCeleryRabbitMQ
Dreamimbue
Founder & Technical Lead, freelance studio · Apr 2023 – Aug 2023 · Remote
- Built and scaled a finance-management PWA for small financial institutions to 300+ DAU. Ran two years in production, generated recurring revenue, reduced client operational costs by $2–5K.
- Designed a microservices REST API across Node.js and Spring Boot with PostgreSQL and MongoDB, plus multi-role JWT auth for five user types.
- Led two contractors end-to-end on architecture and client delivery.
Node.jsSpring BootPostgreSQLMongoDBReact
Projects
Daily Cricket
A daily NYT-style cricket guessing game - six puzzles refresh every morning at 5:30 AM IST. Scaled to 4,000+ MAU through pure organic growth. Custom data pipelines scrape and normalize cricket statistics to generate fresh puzzles daily.
Next.jsSupabaseTailwind CSSPostHog
Reflect
A plug-and-play feedback widget with a 3-line integration. Auto-syncs user feedback into JIRA, Linear, and GitHub. Sub-500ms global load times via Cloudflare CDN. Ran 7 months in production before I sunset it on retention data.
FastAPIReactTerraformGCPCloudflare
Skills
AI / ML
Azure OpenAI
Azure AI Search
Databricks
vector search
MCP
LLM applications
RAG
Languages
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Java
Backend
FastAPI
Node.js
Express
Spring Boot
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
Celery
RabbitMQ
Frontend
React
Next.js
Angular
Tailwind
Zustand
Framer Motion
Infrastructure
AWS
GCP
Azure
Docker
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Linux
CI/CD