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Experience

I'm Kiran, CEO of two software companies I co-founded in Kozhikode, Kerala: Txtudio Coretech in 2025 and Lofritex IT Solutions in 2024. From 2023 to 2025 I worked at Acodez, where I grew from associate software engineer to lead engineer. Before that I studied computer science at College of Engineering Vadakara, where I founded the IEEE Computer Society chapter and chaired it until 2023.

2019: Started engineering College of Engineering Vadakara
2020: Founded a student chapter IEEE Computer Society
2022: Built IoT systems Hardware meets the web
2023: Graduated and won a hackathon Graduation
2024: Co-founded Lofritex Lofritex IT Solutions
2025: Founded Txtudio Txtudio Coretech
2026: Building from the coast Kozhikode, today

Roles and education

  1. Txtudio

    – present

    Founder, CEO and Managing Director

    I co-founded Txtudio with Arun Rajanikanth (Director) and Devang C V (COO) and lead it from Kozhikode as CEO and managing director. We build software for the work that can't go wrong.

    • Four products: Workeron Suite, Snaptiqz, DoYourDesign and Audit Management Solution
    • Recognised by Kerala Startup Mission and Startup India (DPIIT)
    • Company-reported: 500+ events and 25,000+ tickets on Snaptiqz, 10+ companies on Workeron
    • Snaptiqz is listed as a partner of Kerala Police HAC'KP 2026
  2. Lofritex

    – present

    CEO and Founder

    I co-founded Lofritex with Shibin Rasheed and Nandu Krishna T (CTO) and lead it as CEO. We build custom software, ERP, payroll and inventory systems, and web and mobile apps for clients in India, Saudi Arabia, Sweden and Dubai.

    • Our product, Manage Matey ERP, grew out of a contractor ERP built for a client in Saudi Arabia
    • Client work includes the Mitee Interiors website, built in Astro, and a web page for Gear Monkey
    • Company-reported: 50+ projects, 10+ team members and clients in 4+ countries
  3. Acodez

    –

    Associate Software Engineer, then Lead Engineer

    I joined Acodez as an associate software engineer and grew into the lead engineer role, leading a software development team and managing infrastructure.

  4. CEV Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Cell

    Mentor

    I am a mentor in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Cell (IEDC) at College of Engineering Vadakara, where I studied.

    • Listed in the IEDC team as Founder, Lofritex and Txtudio
    • Lofritex and Txtudio both appear among the cell's entrepreneurship initiatives
  5. IEEE Computer Society Student Branch Chapter, College of Engineering Vadakara

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    Founding Chairperson

    I founded the chapter and chaired it for over two years. In 2021 I ran a Git, HTML, CSS and JavaScript task series for students, published as seven repositories on the chapter's GitHub organisation.

  6. College of Engineering Vadakara

    –

    B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering

Certifications

  • Full-stack Developer Udemy
  • TypeScript
  • Ethical hacking Udemy

Open source and community

In 2021 I ran a Git, HTML, CSS and JavaScript task series for students through the IEEE Computer Society chapter at College of Engineering Vadakara. The seven task repositories are still public on the chapter’s GitHub organisation.

In Hacktoberfest 2021 I opened 13 pull requests in two days, and one, a polygon pattern in Python, was merged. Since 2025 most of my code has lived in private repositories, so my public GitHub profile mostly shows earlier work.