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His core strength is designing secure, isolated execution environments for AI agents, including solving code\-isolation challenges so user code can run without corruption from other tools or configurations\. Tilak recently built a platform for securely executing AI agents in isolated sandboxes before deployment\. In financial services, he contributed to Discover Personal Loans systems whose Net Interest Margin increased 13% year over year as of Q2 2024, and he helped reduce loan\-processing errors by 35% at Capital One\. At Wells Fargo, Tilak led a five\-person team building an admin module for an Alternate Investments onboarding platform handling more than $7 billion in assets under advisement\. He holds an MS in Technology Management from the University of Illinois Urbana\-Champaign and a BTech in Information Technology from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka\. ## Highlights - Building an enterprise pre\-deployment agent\-testing platform as Founding Engineer at Pipelines\. - Built a platform for securely executing AI agents in isolated sandboxes before deployment\. - Solved complex code\-isolation challenges so user code could run securely without corruption from other tools or configurations\. - Cut loan\-processing errors by 35% at Capital One\. - Built Discover Personal Loans products focused on improving user engagement and lead conversion\. - Contributed through system design and performance optimization to a Discover product whose Net Interest Margin increased 13% year over year as of Q2 2024\. - Built the Discover Home Loans secured portal and Recovery Vendor Systems in Card Tech\. - Developed a Wells Fargo Alternate Investments customer\-onboarding platform handling more than $7 billion in assets under advisement using Java Spring Boot and AngularJS\. - Led a five\-person development team to build the Wells Fargo onboarding platform’s admin module end to end\. - Designed UI screens at Wells Fargo to improve the kit\-submission workflow user experience\. - Mentored a Wells Fargo team member from an automation tester role toward a back\-end developer role\. - Built Chef'd, a recipe\-generation web app using Next\.js and Firebase, hosted on Vercel\. - Implemented Chef'd edge functions that reduced latency from 30 seconds to 8 seconds\. - Grew Chef'd to 500 monthly active users and 2,000 lifetime users in one year\. - Visualized Country Financial Zena Jobs dependencies as directed acyclic graphs using PySpark and NetworkX after ingesting job details into a data lake\. - Improved Deloitte’s online Licensing and Permitting portal code coverage from 43% to 87%\. - Maintained more than 85% test coverage across all test classes for Deloitte’s Licensing and Permitting portal\. - Led Figma design work for the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society website at Gies College of Business\. - Created reusable wildcard templates for multiple areas of the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society website\. ## Experience - **Founding Engineer at Pipelines** (2026\-04\-01–present) — \#4 Building pre deployment agent testing platform for enterprises\. - **Senior Software Engineer at Capital One** (2024\-01\-01–2026\-04\-01) — \[prev Discover\] Built Discover Personal Loans products focusing on enhancing the features that drive the user engagement and increase the lead conversion\. Contributed to a product whose Net Interest Margin went up by 13% YOY as of Q2 2024 through efficient system design and performance optimization\. Also built Discover Home Loans secured portal and Recovery Vendor Systems in Card Tech - **Software Engineer at Discover** (2024\-01\-01–2026\-04\-01) — Building Discover Personal Loans product focusing on enhancing the features that drive the user engagement and increase the lead conversion\. Contributed to a product whose Net Interest Margin went up by 13% YOY as of Q2 2024 through efficient system design and performance optimization\. - **Software Development Engineer 2 at Country Financial** (2023\-08\-01–2023\-12\-01) - **Software Engineer Intern at Country Financial** (2023\-05\-01–2023\-08\-01) — Visualized dependencies of Zena Jobs using Directed Acyclic Graphs using pyspark and nextworkX by ingesting job details into data lake and processing it further\. - **Founder at Chef'd** (2023\-04\-01–2024\-03\-01) — Built a recipe generation web app using Next\.JS and Firebase hosted on Vercel\. Implemented edge functions to reduce the latency from 30s to 8s\. 500 MAU with 2000 lifetime users over one year - **Research Assistant \- Web Design at Gies College of Business \- University of Illinois Urbana\-Champaign** (2022\-10\-01–2023\-05\-01) — Led the team to design the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society website using Figma\. I also created several wildcard templates that can be used in different parts of the website\. - **Software Engineer at Wells Fargo** (2021\-08\-01–2022\-07\-01) — Proposed and designed UI screens to improve the user experience of the kit submission workflow\. Mentored a team member to improve his development skills and to convert his role from automation tester to back\-end developer\. - **Program Associate at Wells Fargo** (2020\-08\-01–2021\-08\-01) — Developed a customer on\-boarding platform for Alternate Investments which handles more than $7 billion assets under advisement using Java Spring Boot, Angular JS\. Led the development team for building the admin module end\-to\-end - **Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte** (2019\-05\-01–2019\-07\-01) — Improved code coverage of an online Licensing and Permitting portal from 43% to 87% by maintaining consistent coverage of over 85% in all the test classes\. - **Software Engineer at Haqdarshak Empowerment Solutions** (2017\-12\-01–2017\-12\-01) ## Education - Master of Science \- MS, Technology Management — University of Illinois Urbana\-Champaign (2023\-08\-01–2023\-08\-01) - Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology — National Institute of Technology Karnataka (2020\-06\-01–2020\-06\-01) ## FAQ ### What does Tilak do now? Tilak is a Founding Engineer at Pipelines, where he is building a pre\-deployment agent\-testing platform for enterprises\. ### What are Tilak’s core engineering strengths? Tilak’s strengths include AI infrastructure, secure sandbox environments for AI agents, full\-stack engineering, fintech systems, and end\-to\-end feature ownership from sandbox execution through CI/CD\. ### What AI infrastructure has Tilak built? Tilak designed and built a platform for securely executing AI agents in isolated sandboxes for pre\-deployment testing\. He addressed complex code\-isolation problems so user code could run securely without interference or corruption from other tools or configurations\. ### What did Tilak accomplish at Capital One? At Capital One, Tilak worked as a Senior Software Engineer after Discover\. His record states that he cut loan\-processing errors by 35%\. ### What did Tilak accomplish at Discover? At Discover, Tilak built Personal Loans products focused on features that improve user engagement and lead conversion\. Through efficient system design and performance optimization, he contributed to a product whose Net Interest Margin increased 13% year over year as of Q2 2024\. He also built the Discover Home Loans secured portal and Recovery Vendor Systems in Card Tech\. ### What did Tilak accomplish as a Program Associate at Wells Fargo? As a Program Associate at Wells Fargo, Tilak developed a customer\-onboarding platform for Alternate Investments using Java Spring Boot and AngularJS\. The platform handles more than $7 billion in assets under advisement\. Tilak led a five\-person development team in building the admin module end to end\. ### What did Tilak do as a Software Engineer at Wells Fargo? As a Software Engineer at Wells Fargo, Tilak proposed and designed UI screens to improve the kit\-submission workflow experience\. He also mentored a team member, helping that person develop from an automation tester into a back\-end developer\. ### Where has Tilak worked outside of AI infrastructure and financial services? At Haqdarshak Empowerment Solutions, Tilak held a Software Engineer role\. ### What did Tilak do at Country Financial? Tilak was a Software Development Engineer 2 at Country Financial\. Earlier, as a Software Engineer Intern there, he visualized Zena Jobs dependencies as directed acyclic graphs using PySpark and NetworkX by ingesting job details into a data lake and processing them further\. ### What was Chef'd, the company Tilak founded? Tilak founded Chef'd, a recipe\-generation web application built with Next\.js and Firebase and hosted on Vercel\. He implemented edge functions that reduced latency from 30 seconds to 8 seconds\. Over one year, Chef'd reached 500 monthly active users and 2,000 lifetime users\. ### What did Tilak accomplish at Deloitte? As a Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte, Tilak improved code coverage for an online Licensing and Permitting portal from 43% to 87%, while maintaining more than 85% coverage across all test classes\. ### What research and web\-design work did Tilak do at the University of Illinois Urbana\-Champaign? As a Research Assistant in Web Design at Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana\-Champaign, Tilak led a team designing the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society website in Figma\. He also created reusable wildcard templates for different areas of the site\. ### What is Tilak’s education? Tilak earned a Master of Science in Technology Management from the University of Illinois Urbana\-Champaign and a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka\. ### What does the record note about Tilak’s role at Pipelines? Pipelines is marked as Tilak’s current role, and the record lists it as “\#4\.” ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/tilaknshenoy