π Bengaluru, India | Director of Engineering & AI @ Certa
I went from writing React components to leading AI engineering at a Series B β without an AI degree. 7+ years at Certa, scaled the eng org from 10 to 50+, now own AI product strategy and engineering.
Director of Engineering & AI at Certa β a third-party lifecycle management platform (Series B).
- π§ AI Product Direction β Defined and shipped Certa's AI product lineup: NLP-powered workflows, automated document analysis, intelligent process automation. In production, handling real enterprise workloads.
- π Org Building β Scaled engineering from 10 to 50+. Hiring, org design, engineering culture.
- ποΈ Technical Foundation β Drove TypeScript migration, monorepo adoption, TDD culture (15% β 85% coverage), 36% LCP improvement.
Before Certa: Level AI (AI-powered customer service intelligence).
- π¬ chat-notes β AI-powered note-taking with automatic categorization
- π§ mind β Privacy-first read-later app. Self-hosted, no algorithms.
- π‘οΈ auto-guardian β CLI to generate test cases for React components using AI
- π lebab-as-babel-plugins β Codemod to transform ES5 to ES6/7
- π€ Experiments with React Compiler in Production Code β React India 2024
- π€ AI Generated Test Cases β React Nexus 2024
βοΈ rajatvijay.in β essays on building AI products, leading engineering teams, and the path from frontend to AI leadership.





