Kaushal Hooda
Director Of Engineering at MaxHome.AI
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKaushal Hooda is a Director of Engineering based in Bengaluru with 11 years of experience designing and operating distributed, scalable backend systems across high-growth consumer and security startups. Trained at IIT Delhi, he’s led teams at Flipkart, Google, Zepto and Safe Security, building core messaging platforms, monetization systems, and a GenAI cybersecurity assistant (SafeX) that leverages RAG and agents. He combines deep Java and Python expertise with hands-on ownership of identity, messaging, analytics and AI/ML infrastructure, moving prototypes into production. Known for leading cross-functional teams that bridge data, ML and backend engineering, he thrives on solving reliability and scale challenges in real-world, high-throughput environments. An engineer who moved from building Flipkart’s primary messaging backbone to shipping GenAI security tooling, he brings both product-minded leadership and low-level systems chops.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
English, Hindi
Github Skills (17)
midi8
console7
player7
audio7
music7
linux5
async5
unix5
reactive4
event-driven4
scalable4
reactive-programming3
java1
apache1
cassandra1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hoodakaushal/kodi-plex-sync
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
Python script to sync watched status from kodi to plex
Contributions:19 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
hoodakaushal/intellij-settings
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:237 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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