# Rajat Bansal

> Founding Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rajatbansal

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https://github.com/RJBansal

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ Kipo AI
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Building Software for the future of Manufacturing and Hardware Ecosystem

### Co-Founder & CTO @ Verbaly
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
Raised a pre-seed from Jason Calacanis and Launch. Verbaly AI is the AI speech coach to replace Toastmasters. Professionals use Verbaly to prepare, practice, and refine key presentations, interviews, and conversations. Over 2000+ users.

### Software Engineer @ Clip Automation
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Clip is a seed funded ($2 million) startup that provides a Smart Factory OS, with data and machine connectivity infrastructure for a unified digital factory experience. I was the 9th hire and helped the company grow to $2 million+ revenue

### Senior Data Engineer @ Accenture
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Managed data processing and quality for a $100+ million digital transformation project in the Canadian mortgage sector. 

• Developed a real-time pipeline health dashboard, reducing incident tickets by over 70% and enhancing overall system efficiency.

• Decreased weekly incident tickets by 70% and enabled faster resolution by developing a real-time dashboard for pipeline and data health.

### Data Engineer @ Accenture
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Worked on upgrading SQL views and data warehouses, increasing data accuracy by over 50%. 

• Managed daily processing and data quality for a large cloud data analytics platform, enhanced ELT pipelines using Python, and migrated legacy R scripts to Spark. 

• Collaborated with a Senior Partner to research and develop a proposal for the Accenture Blockchain Division, exploring new business opportunities.

### Software Engineer @ General Dynamics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Collaboration contract between Professor Garcia of Carleton University and General Dynamics.

• Led a team to design and develop a Message-Oriented Middleware eval framework aimed at optimizing a system for performance and scalability
• Built using Python and CORE (FUSS) and deployed on AWS 
• We conducted extensive evaluation of RTI and Apache ActiveMQ for varying use cases to evaluate performance, features, characteristics, and durability in network conditions.

### Teaching Assistant @ Carleton University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Taught and conducted lab sessions, graded - assignments, coding projects, and test/exams for:
- Math 1004 ( Calculus for Engineering )
- Sysc 2006 ( Foundation of Imperative Programming)
- Sysc 2004 (OO Software Programming)
- Sysc 2100 (Algorithms and Data Structures)

### Security Software Engineer @ Nokia
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Ottawa, Canada Area
Developed open-source security solutions and made them cloud-ready using Docker, Kubernetes, and Wildfly. Built and extended on orchestration, harmonized logging and cloud infrastructure visibility.

### Software Designer @ Thales
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Created a manufacturing software for secure smart card authentication with Hardware Security Modules (HSM), and engineered smart card cloning for secure backup using HSM-signed X509 certificates and ECDSA decryption.

### Software Developer @ You.i TV
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Improved search page query speeds on low-end devices by 27% and reduced app launch time by 2.5 seconds through refactoring and optimization. Integrated modals design to replace overlays and secondary screens, reducing code complexity by 40%.


## Education
### Master of Science Applied Computing in Artificial Intelligence
University of Toronto

### Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering
Carleton University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rjbansal

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Last updated: 2026-03-29