Kartavya Jharwal
London, UK | +44 7762 941472+44 7762 941472 | Kartavyajharwal@gmail.comKartavyajharwal@gmail.com | kartavya.techkartavya.tech | LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/kartavyajharwal | GitHubgithub.com/Kartavya-JharwalStrategic Design Engineer
I turn customer and operating insight into product architecture, service design, and working MVPs, supporting founders through launch.
Relevant Experience
- Prototyped Whisper/C++ edge inference against an INR 50 per-call compute ceiling before committing to a full voice stack.
- Ran two-week Scrum cycles with backlog grooming, design handoffs, and Kanban visibility for engineering and counselling teams.
- Turned stakeholder interviews into a market report and phased entry plan grounded in customer segments and product thesis.
- Advanced launch readiness in two months with an MVP website, information architecture, and implementation roadmap.
- Defined pricing and licensing for AstroPatshala’s packaged services, market entry, and delivery model.
- Maintained two production codebases for acquisition, education, publishing, and operations, aligning deployments with licensing releases.
Related Projects
- Created NIRMANA through 4 brief iterations, building a design-learning system around 75 gamified questions that help practitioners recover observation, practice, repetition, and discourse.
- Built 2 companion interfaces - a public microsite and a Snaptrude spatial prototype - connecting the digital card system to its proposed physical exhibition environment.
- Built CRM, ecommerce, revenue-management, and library systems with Flask, Django, and FastAPI, from data models and APIs through deployment.
- Maintained more than 20 Python and JavaScript repositories spanning 15.8 GB and 367,000 files in apps, automation, analytics, and infrastructure.
Education
Triple Crown Business SchoolBachelor of Business Administration
Double Major:Entrepreneurship and Design (Double Major)
GPA:3.76/4.00 | UK Firsts honors
Focus:
Honors:Dean’s List for consecutive terms; Academic Excellence Scholarship; Social Impact Award
Relevant Coursework:Design Thinking in Practice; Design Thinking in Web Design; Strategic Ambiguity; Building Next-Generation Startups; Design 1
Additional Information
Skills:Python, Flask, Django, FastAPI, JavaScript, Figma, Snaptrude, product strategy, systems design, service design, Founder storytelling, GTM playbooks, MVP development, Python, Native web development
Leadership:Hult Founders Lab, Technical Startup Mentor: Built incubator MVPs, coached two successful market launches, and advised London Tech Advisors on founding engineer decisions and MVP architecture.