A wild KARTIK appeared! Click to open the Poké Ball
📕 Pokédex entry #010
| Name | KARTIK |
| Type | ⚡ 10x Engineer · 🤖 AI Agents |
| Region | Nagpur 🇮🇳 → Barcelona 🇪🇸 (2026) |
| Trainer | Acai Travel: AI agents for travel contact centres, airlines, OTAs & DMCs |
| Signature move | Agentic workflows that ship 24/7, with almost no regressions |
| Evolution | Intern (2021) → SWE (2021) → Full-stack lead → SWE @ Acai (2025) → Senior SWE (2026) |
🧑💻 About me
// Package kartik describes the human behind this profile.
package kartik
type Trainer struct {
Name string
Role string
Brand string
Based string
Speaks []string
Ships []string
Into []string
AFK []string
Studied string
OpenToDMs bool
}
var Me = Trainer{
Name: "Kartik Kapgate",
Role: "Senior Software Engineer @ Acai Travel",
Brand: "10x engineer",
Based: "Barcelona, ES (moved from Nagpur, IN in 2026)",
Speaks: []string{"English", "Hindi", "Marathi"},
Ships: []string{"Go", "TypeScript", "AWS EKS", "Terraform", "MongoDB", "Datadog"},
Into: []string{"AI agents", "MCP & A2A", "Distributed systems", "Observability"},
AFK: []string{"CS2", "Football", "Gym", "Cooking"},
Studied: "B.Tech @ Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune",
OpenToDMs: true,
}🎒 Inventory (tech stack)
Daily drivers
Cloud & data
AI, agents & observability
Also shipped with
Tools of the trade
📊 Battle stats · 🔥 86-day best streak
🏅 Gym badges (open source)
- open-metadata/OpenMetadata: contributions to the open-source metadata platform for data discovery and governance.
- mdn/content: fixed over-formatted code in the official JavaScript docs.
- pinterest/pymemcache: documentation fixes for Pinterest's Python memcached client.
- python-validators/validators: Aadhaar and PAN validators for Indian identity numbers.
- TheAlgorithms: algorithms and data structures in JavaScript and C++, including linked lists and a cycle-detection refactor with tests.
- TrueSparrowSystems: led NFT or Not, WhisperChain and the AI Sales Sparrow iOS app from inception to production.
🔥💧🌿 Choose your starter
| 🔥 10kk.me My portfolio: experience, projects, contact |
💧 CV4Hire Get your CV past the ATS filter, for free |
🌿 Say hi kartik@10kk.me. I don't bite, promise. |
💬 Quote of the run
“A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking. That makes you who you are.”
Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot
🍬 Rare Candy (free DOSE hit)
DOSE = dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin & endorphin. Refresh if the dose was ineffective.
