Summary
Deepak Kumar is a pragmatic technology leader and founder with 15 years of experience building backend systems across ad-tech, fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS. As Co-Founder & CTO of Instruo and former Staff Engineer at Truecaller, he has designed high-throughput microservices, ad-serving platforms, and UPI/payment systems using Scala, Java, Ruby, and cloud-native architectures. He combines product-focused engineering—shipping self-serve ad platforms and offline ad rendering—with operational chops in databases like Cassandra/Scylla and distributed messaging like Kafka. Deepak’s maker mindset shows in founding early ventures (3dify) and leading crowdsourced platforms, blending hands-on coding with strategic platform design. Based in Kochi, he’s comfortable scaling teams and systems from prototype to production while optimizing for revenue yield and real-world reliability.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at University of Kerala
Malayalam, English