About Kalvium Labs

200+ AI-native engineers.
One pipeline. Deployed everywhere.

Kalvium Labs is the engineering company built on India's first AI-native training program. We deploy Forward Deployed Engineers to GCCs, funded startups, and tech companies who can't wait 75 days to hire.

The Pipeline Is the Product

India's GCC sector faces a 38-42% AI talent gap. Hiring cycles for specialized AI/ML roles exceed 75 days. Companies need AI engineers now, not in three months.

Kalvium is India's first AI-native engineering program. Our engineers don't learn AI as an elective. They build with LLMs, RAG pipelines, agentic systems, and vector databases as core skills from day one.

What that means: a Kalvium engineer can set up a RAG pipeline with pgvector, connect it to Claude or GPT-4o, build a React frontend, and deploy to production in their first week. Most new hires take months to ramp to that.

Kalvium Labs deploys these engineers directly into your team. They work in your codebase, use your tools, attend your standups, and ship production code. Not a staffing bench. Not a freelance marketplace. A structured pipeline of AI-specialized engineers, deployed as Forward Deployed Engineers.

200+
AI-native engineers
3
Active FDE deployments
6,000+
Engineering hours/week capacity
7 days
From request to deployment
Currently Deployed At

Our engineers are working inside these companies right now.

Maersk

Maersk

Global logistics leader. Our FDEs are embedded in their engineering teams, working on AI-powered systems within their technology stack.

TradeLab

TradeLab

Fintech analytics platform. Our engineers built and continue to maintain their agentic analytics system with Claude Agent SDK and MCP.

Eternz

Eternz

AI-native product company. Our Forward Deployed Engineers work as dedicated members of their engineering team.

The Founding Team

Built by operators, not consultants.

Rajesh Kumar

Rajesh Kumar

Co-Founder & CEO

3x Founder · 18 years in Tech x Employability

Rajesh built three education companies and the talent pipeline Kalvium Labs runs on: 200+ engineers from India's first AI-native engineering program. As CEO of Kalvium (the parent company), he operates the system that trains, tests, and deploys every engineer we send to your team.

Venkataraghulan V

Venkataraghulan V

Co-Founder

Ex-Deloitte Consultant · Scaled products to 3M+ users

Venkat handles client relationships and deployment logistics. Ex-Deloitte consultant who understands both the engineering and business sides. When you need to figure out how many engineers, what skills, and how to integrate them into your existing team, Venkat is the conversation.

Anil Gulecha

Anil Gulecha

Co-Founder & CTO

Ex-HackerRank · Ex-Google

Anil designed the AI curriculum that every Kalvium engineer goes through: LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, production deployment patterns. His background at HackerRank (building coding evaluation infrastructure) and Google shaped the engineering standards our FDEs bring to your codebase.

Training Pipeline

What every FDE is trained on.

AI & LLM Systems

  • LLM integration (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, open-source)
  • RAG pipelines (pgvector, Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate)
  • Agentic systems (LangGraph, tool-calling, multi-agent)
  • Prompt architecture and structured output
  • Fine-tuning and model evaluation

Full-Stack Development

  • React, Next.js, TypeScript frontends
  • Python, Node.js, FastAPI backends
  • PostgreSQL, Redis, cloud infrastructure
  • CI/CD, Docker, production deployment
  • API design, testing, observability

This isn't a 6-week bootcamp. It's a multi-year, project-based engineering program. Every engineer ships production code before they're deployed to a client team.

Recognition

Dubai AI Week 2025: Top 5 AI Startups

Selected as one of the top 5 AI startups at the Indiaspora x Dubai AI Week event, alongside Katonic, BAI, AionOS, and Foster Ventures.

Anil presenting at Dubai AI Week Demoing at the booth

Need AI engineers? Let's talk.

Tell us what you're building, how many engineers you need, and when. We'll match the right FDEs to your team.

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