Portrait of Kogulan Baskaran

Kogulan Baskaran

Software Engineer & Engineering Leader

Engineer and builder with a decade of experience turning ambiguous problems into products people rely on. I've helped grow two companies, AgriWebb and Clipboard, to successful exits, owning everything from cloud architecture to AI systems to the teams that ship them. Today I'm a founding engineer at Klaro, building AI-native tools for working with numbers.

Experience
KlaroFounding Engineer
Jan 2025 – Present

AI-powered workspace that turns plain English into structured, interactive numerical models.

  • Architected Klaro's AI agent loop, the orchestration layer that turns plain-English intent into structured, verifiable models through multi-step reasoning and tool use.
  • Built the parser and modelling engine, so users create and refine models in natural language instead of writing formulas.
  • Engineered the core compute engine, keeping large, numerical models fast and responsive at scale.
ClipboardCTO / Head of Engineering & Product
Nov 2020 – Oct 2024

EdTech platform for school extracurricular management (EMS).

  • Drove ARR from $200K to $4M across 9+ countries as an early employee, taking the company to a successful acquisition.
  • Designed a high-concurrency registrations and payments system built for ticketing-style demand spikes, sharply improving reliability and unlocking a meaningful upsell revenue win.
  • Architected the foundational systems and scaled the product & engineering team from inception to 15.
  • Led the shift from Agile to Shape Up, lifting both delivery speed and focus on the right work.
AgriWebbTech Lead / Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2016 – Nov 2020

Farm management software; Global market leader.

  • As the 4th employee, set up cloud infrastructure and CI/CD, then moved into core web & mobile product (Node, Angular, Ionic).
  • Relocated to the UK for two years to lead the technical team through an acquisition and platform migration.
IBMSoftware Engineer
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
  • Built test-automation orchestration running millions of tests per day for the Web Content Manager division.