Kaushik Mahorker
Co-Founder at Wildcard (YC W25)
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaushik Mahorker is a software engineer and founder with eight years of experience building product-focused systems; he is currently Co-Founder of Wildcard (YC W25) based in Cupertino. He transitioned from hands-on engineering roles at AWS and Scale AI into engineering management, bringing experience shipping cloud services, ML pipelines, and frontend improvements. Kaushik pairs academic depth—a UCSB BS (3.91) and an MS from UCLA—with applied research in computer vision, where he developed a k-medoids texturization algorithm that densified SfM 3D point clouds by 6.7× and produced interactive 3D scenes. He also has startup founder experience with PLUG, mobile and backend engineering chops, and a track record of translating research prototypes into production UIs and cloud-hosted tools. His profile blends product delivery, ML/CV research, and engineering leadership across startups and large tech platforms.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
French, Telugu, English
Github Skills (26)
simulation10
pypy10
clarity10
specification10
testing9
hardware9
optimization9
lora8
python8
usability8
finetuning7
fine-tuning6
llm6
api5
llama5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kmahorker/WaveAndroid
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:153 commits in 6 months
kmahorker/PyRTL
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
A collection of classes providing simple hardware specification, simulation, tracing, and testing suitable for teaching and research. Simplicity, usability, clarity, and extendability rather than performance or optimization is the overarching goal.
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
usabilitygoalteachingspecificationoptimization
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