Kunal Lanjewar

Kunal Lanjewar

Kunal Lanjewar

Riot Games

Bio

Kunal Lanjewar runs tier‑zero infrastructure at Riot Games, where he builds and operates production AI agents and backend services that power games like VALORANT and League of Legends. He’s the author of Guild, an open‑source local cognition layer that gives AI agents shared memory and task coordination across coding tools via MCP. Previously, he helped scale Sky: Children of the Light to 300M+ downloads and millions of daily active players, and built the backend for its Guinness World Record–holding Aurora concert. His work has been featured at GDC, DataCon LA, and on the MongoDB Podcast. Earlier in his career he also built systems for NASA missions.

Session (1)

Kunal Lanjewar is a Staff Software Engineer at Riot Games working on VALORANT Core Services. He previously scaled thatgamecompany's Sky: Children of the Light to over 1 million concurrent players, giving him deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems and game backend infrastructure.

GitHub

@kunallanjewar

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