Kaushik Mahorker
CEO And Founder at Wildcard (YC W25)
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaushik Mahorker is a founder and software leader with nine years of experience building production ML and e-commerce systems from internships to startup scale. Currently CEO and founder of Wildcard (YC W25), he’s focused on getting products discovered in ChatGPT and AI-driven shopping, translating deep technical experience into go-to-market product strategies. Previously at Scale AI he engineered an e-commerce enrichment engine that handled 400K SKUs and 2.8M attributes, directly enabling a $15M+ retail contract. His background includes AWS and Microsoft engineering roles, research in 3D reconstruction and clustering at UCSB, and hands-on mobile and web startups—showing fluency across cloud services, ML pipelines, and consumer product stacks. Known for shipping measurable impact (performance, data scale, and contract wins), he blends academic rigor from UCSB and UCLA with scrappy startup execution in Cupertino. An unexpected thread through his career is a knack for turning research prototypes (e.g., SfM point-cloud densification) into practical products and commercial outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, Los Angeles
French, Telugu, English
Github Skills (24)
simulation10
pypy10
clarity10
specification10
testing9
hardware9
optimization9
lora8
python8
usability8
fine-tuning6
llm6
api5
llama5
selenium4
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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