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Mayuresh Kulkarni

VP Engineering · Engineering Director · Founder

Hands-on engineering executive with 14+ years leading SaaS product engineering across Backend, Frontend, Mobile, Platform, and Quality. Started as a full-stack developer (.NET, Python) and grew through quality engineering and automation architecture into engineering leadership. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt applying operational discipline to delivery, hiring, and cost optimization — and now building SentinelFlux — a suite of developer-productivity SaaS tools including SpecVault, AgentPulse, DocForge, and TalentDesk.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Career

Work Experience

Founder & Software Engineer

SentinelFlux
Apr 2026 — Present

Bootstrapped · Remote

  • ▸Built an AI-powered test automation SaaS from 0→1, covering 8 testing modules (REST/GraphQL, Web UI, Security, Performance, Accessibility, Visual Regression, and more) with a 10-agent AI pipeline.
  • ▸Designed the full product architecture: knowledge-base-driven test generation, self-healing locator engine, post-suite AI analysis, and human-in-the-loop approval workflows.
  • ▸Shipped integrations with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Jira, and Slack; launched to early-access customers at sentinelflux.in.

Lead SDET → VP Engineering

peopleHum SaaS HR-tech platform
Mar 2020 — Apr 2026 · 6 yrs

Bengaluru, India

Lead SDET 2020
Eng Manager 2021
QA Director 2024
Eng Director 2024
VP Engineering 2026
Excellence in QE Transformation (HRTech) — Digital QA Show 2026 Speaker — "Quality at Scale" · Bengaluru, Mar 2026
  • ▸Engineering Leadership: Led 20–25 engineers across Backend, Frontend, Mobile, Platform, Solutions Engineering, and QA — owning delivery for Hire (ATS), Nurture (PMS), and Grow (L&D) products for global enterprise customers.
  • ▸Cloud Migration: Directed major platform migration from AWS to Hetzner; managed planned downtime windows, data integrity validation, and zero-regression cutover for a multi-tenant SaaS environment.
  • ▸Agentic AI in QA: Spearheaded Agentic AI workflows built on Playwright, achieving a 35% reduction in manual regression effort through self-healing test automation.
  • ▸Platform Foundations: Drove adoption of Apache Kafka, Redis, and Elasticsearch for scaling search, eventing, and caching layers; standardized mobile dev across iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), and Ionic hybrid.
  • ▸Performance Engineering: Resolved critical API latency and SQL timeout issues via advanced query filtering, early aggregation, and indexing strategies — improving p95 response times across high-traffic endpoints.
  • ▸Lean QA Transformation: Applied Lean Six Sigma to QA operations — optimized cost-per-release, shrunk regression cycle times, and mentored 15+ SDETs into engineering-grade Quality Developers.

QA Engineer → Principal QA Engineer

IBM
Sep 2015 — Mar 2020 · 4.5 yrs

Bengaluru, India

  • ▸Microservices Migration (Principal QA): Led QA strategy for IBM's monolith-to-microservices transition; architected a Rest Assured–based API automation framework standardized across the org for API, database, and async messaging testing. Received a special innovation award for this work.
  • ▸MaaS360 QE Ownership (Sr. QA / QA): Owned QE for complex Windows modules of IBM's MaaS360 enterprise mobility product — test planning, automation, customer issue triage, and release readiness.
  • ▸Tooling & Hackathon Wins: Built an ExtentReports test reporting utility used across teams; led Sikuli → Winium framework migration; won Hackathon MGR for a Windows UWP app-signing utility and a cross-platform ID certificate troubleshooting utility for MaaS360.

Software Engineer → Sr. SDET

AFour Technologies
Jun 2012 — Aug 2015 · 3 yrs

Pune, India

  • ▸Developed test automation frameworks for web (Selenium, .NET/SpecFlow, BDD), mobile (Appium, Java), and SOAP API testing; built Python scripts for VM backup automation.
  • ▸Conducted performance benchmarking with JMeter and Windows Performance profiling tools for web and desktop applications.
  • ▸Won a Hackathon award for developing an ID certificate delivery troubleshooting utility for Windows, Android, and iOS devices managed by MaaS360.

Software Engineer Trainee

Texnovate Solutions
Oct 2011 — May 2012 · 8 mos

Pune, India · .NET Full Stack

  • ▸Built web applications in .NET and jQuery; authored complex MS SQL stored procedures for an advertising product; managed deployments.
Work

Featured Projects

SentinelFlux

AI-Powered Test Automation Platform · Founder

Live — Early Access

Full-stack SaaS that eliminates manual test writing. Reads a product knowledge base, generates and executes test suites across 9 modules via 10 AI agents, heals broken locators automatically, and delivers post-run analysis — all in one dashboard with CI/CD integrations.

Python · FastAPI Playwright LLMs / AI Agents Alpine.js · HTMX GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Jenkins
Visit site Live demo

SpecVault

API Contract Registry · Founder

Live — specvault.sentinelflux.in

Hosted API contract registry that version-controls OpenAPI specs, auto-diffs between releases, and notifies consumer teams the moment a breaking change is detected — before it ships to production.

Python · FastAPI SQLite Alpine.js OpenAPI diff engine Hosted SaaS
Product page Live app

AgentPulse

AI Agent Observability · Founder

New — agentpulse.sentinelflux.in

Full-stack AI agent observability SaaS — alerting-first with cost-per-product as the lead feature. Express + SQLite API with multi-tenant org isolation, webhook ingestion (no SDK), alert rules on 5 metrics, and execution traces. 30-test integration suite.

React 18 · TypeScript Express · SQLite (node:sqlite) Tailwind · Recharts Vite · Docker · Caddy node:test · Hosted SaaS
Product page Live app

DocForge

Document & Invoice Generation · Founder

New

Document-generation SaaS for HR, finance & contracts — Template Studio with live preview, 11 employee letters, a GST invoice engine with gap-free numbering, contract letters, AI drafting (Claude), and pluggable e-signing with a SHA-256-sealed certificate page. India-first, global-ready.

Python · FastAPI Jinja · Alpine · Tailwind WeasyPrint · pypdf Anthropic Claude Docker · pytest · Hosted SaaS
Product page Live app

TalentDesk

Client & Talent Management · Founder

New

Client and talent management SaaS for consulting & staffing firms — tracks clients, open hiring needs, and deployments with a mandatory 4-point placement quality gate, structured employee pulse reviews (stretched / supported / growing), and a weekly Green/Amber/Red client engagement health board. Scoped RBAC and per-entity audit logs throughout.

Next.js 14 · TypeScript React · Tailwind SQLite (better-sqlite3) Cookie-session auth · bcrypt RBAC · Audit log
Product page GitHub

peopleHum HR Platform

Engineering Director · 2020–2026

Led engineering for an enterprise SaaS HR suite — ATS (Hire), Performance Management (Nurture), and L&D (Grow) — from mid-scale to global enterprise customers.

Python React Mobile Playwright VAPT

IBM API Automation Framework

Principal QA Engineer · IBM · Award-winning

Built the REST API automation framework that underpinned IBM's monolith → microservices migration. Standardized across the org for APIs, databases, and async messaging. Received a special company award.

Java Rest Assured Microservices ExtentReports
Expertise

Skills & Technologies

Languages & Frameworks

Python Java Spring Boot Kotlin Swift JavaScript / TypeScript .NET / C# SQL Ionic

AI & ML

Agentic AI Workflows LLMs & Prompt Engineering PyTorch MLOps RAG

Testing & Security

Playwright Selenium Appium Rest Assured JMeter Serenity BDD VAPT OWASP ZAP SOC2 Compliance BDD / SpecFlow

Platform & DevOps

Apache Kafka Redis Elasticsearch Microservices AWS / Hetzner Docker CI/CD Infrastructure-as-Code GitHub Actions Jenkins React ReportPortal
Recognition

Awards & Industry Recognition

Excellence in QE Transformation (HRTech)

Digital QA & Software Testing Show · 2026

Board Discussion Panelist

Quantic India QA Leadership Meetup · 2026

IBM Innovation Award

Framework architecture for microservices migration + Hackathon MGR winner

Background

Education & Certifications

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Executive PG Programme in Applied AI & Agentic AI

Graduating Dec 2026

Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Solapur University

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

2007 – 2011

Certifications

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level

Indian Testing Board · Sep 2018

#ITB-CTFL-0092941

Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

IMC · CPD UK · CSSC USA · Apr 2024

#C-2024-57597

ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor

IMC · CPD UK (A038236) · May 2026

#C-2026-58593

Machine Learning Foundations: Calculus

LinkedIn Learning

Advanced Playwright Techniques

Optimizing Speed, Stability & Cloud Testing

Playwright: Design Patterns

LinkedIn Learning

Git Essential Training

LinkedIn Learning

Project Management Professional (PMP)

PMI · Training Completed

Agentic AI Workflows

Specialized Training

OWASP ZAP — Web App Penetration Testing

Specialized Training

Serenity BDD

Specialized Training

Open to new opportunities

Let's build something great together

Open to engineering leadership and AI/ML-focused roles. Happy to consult on quality engineering strategy and AI product development.

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