Navaneeth (Naveen)
AI Platform Engineer | Agents, Full-Stack Systems & Product Development
New York, NYnaveen.workss@gmail.comLinkedInGithubnaveen.worksFull-stack engineer with 13+ years building software. Founding engineer and later Head of Engineering at Micro, where I designed and built most of the platform across agents, memory, data ingestion, and durable workflows. Previously co-founded Pawjourr and built its creator marketplace.
- 13+ years building software
- AI agents, memory, and background workflows
- Platform architecture and hands-on delivery
- Engineering leadership and founder experience
Professional Experience
Micro
New York, NYHead of Engineering
Jun 2025–Present
- Conceived, designed, and built the memory system: working memory, episodic conversation recall, and long-term facts, with retrieval and consolidation across chats and automations.
- Built the agent harness, tools, skills, MCP integrations, computer use, sandboxed coding, and prompt-to-app. Recorded workloads included 1.1M tool calls (Apr–Oct 2026) and 161,122 retained AI conversation messages (Oct 21 snapshot).
- Built ingestion and CRM autofill from email and meeting transcripts, including typed updates and automatic record creation; 1.06M production workflow runs (Aug–Oct 2026).
- Built scheduled and durable automations with run identity, deduplication, retries, background authentication, and persisted results; 21k+ successful runs (Aug–Oct 2026).
- Built meeting recording, transcript processing, summaries, and follow-up tasks; 3,346 completed recordings retained at the Oct 21, 2026 snapshot, including internal activity.
- Led engineering while staying hands-on in architecture and code. Set technical direction, scoped features, and phased delivery around team capacity; owned hiring, mentoring, and releases.
Founding Full-Stack Engineer
Jan 2024–Jun 2025
- Built Micro from pre-product through alpha, beta, and general availability, connecting email, CRM, meetings, documents, search, and real-time collaboration.
- Owned frontend architecture and delivered APIs, shared data models, synchronization, testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure; built the unified inbox and command-driven search.
Pawjourr
New York CityCo-founder & CTO
2019–Present
- Built the creator marketplace across campaign discovery, submissions, brand approvals, and administration, and led product and engineering.
- Helped scale the marketplace to 20,000+ creators, 100+ brands, and more than $1M in transaction volume.
Antler
SingaporeEntrepreneur in Residence
Jan–Jun 2020
- Built and pitched a startup in Antler’s Singapore program; the company secured S$100,000 as one of the first in its cohort selected for investment.
BBDO Singapore
SingaporeCreative Technologist
2018–2020
- Worked directly with clients and creative teams to define, prototype, and ship interactive web and immersive experiences.
Safe Space
SingaporeCo-founder & CTO
2017–2021 · Part-time
- Co-founded the counseling platform, built messaging and calling workflows, and led technical delivery and the engineering team.
Blue Bucket
RemoteCo-founder & CTO
2014–Present · Part-time
- Co-founded the studio and led architecture and delivery for interactive web, commerce, and experiential projects.
Dentsu Group
SingaporeSenior Application Developer
Apr 2017–May 2018
- Led developers shipping web, hybrid, native, and immersive applications for enterprise clients.
Software Engineer
Jun 2014–Apr 2017
- Built interactive web applications and digital campaigns with JavaScript, React, and AngularJS.
Web Developer
Jun 2013–Jun 2014
- Built responsive websites and campaign pages, and automated recurring development workflows.
Skills & Education
Architecture and AI
- AI agents
- Agent harnesses
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Tool integrations
- Real-time systems
- Software architecture
- API design
- Automation
Core technologies
Product engineering
- Zero-to-one development
- Full-stack engineering
- Product management
- Design systems
- Marketplaces
- CRM
- Email platforms
- Collaboration tools
Platform and delivery
- AWS — view matching work
- Azure — view matching work
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions — view matching work
- Testing
- Deployment
- Serverless systems
- Vercel — view matching work
Leadership
- Engineering leadership
- Hiring
- Interviewing
- Performance management
- Mentoring
- Technical strategy
- Product delivery
- Founder partnership
Selected creative technology
- React Native — view matching work
- Unity — view matching work
- Three.js — view matching work
- GSAP
- Electron — view matching work
- AR/VR
- Interactive installations
Education
BSc (Hons) in Information Technology
Management Development Institute of Singapore
2017–2019
Diploma in Information Technology
Republic Polytechnic
2012–2015