Kaushik Thirthappa
Founder at Spike.sh
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKaushik Thirthappa is a founder and seasoned software leader with 14 years of experience building product-led web applications and incident management tooling from Bengaluru. He bootstrapped Spike.sh into a globally used, flat-priced incident management platform serving customers across 35+ countries while running a small, highly automated team. A long-time Ruby and Rails practitioner, Kaushik contributes to open source (including maintaining an unofficial NASA Ruby gem) and has deep hands-on experience across front-end HTML/CSS and backend systems. Previously at Wingify he helped scale a product from $10k to $4M ARR, blending product management rigor (Jobs-to-be-Done, A/B pricing tests, Amplitude analytics) with rapid engineering iterations. Known for turning complex problems into simple solutions, he pairs startup grit with disciplined product research and customer-focused automation.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Science, Science at Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Juinor College for ScienceComputer Engineering Computer Science, Computer Engineering Computer Science at MIT Academy of Engineering, Alandi, Pune
English, Hindi, Kannada
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (125)
python10
wysiwyg10
command-line-tool10
creative-commons10
cpp10
questions-and-answers10
javascript10
express-handlebars10
pm210
background-task10
java10
http-server10
nodejs10
mongodb10
accessibility10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spikehq/docs.spike.sh
Oct 2024 - Jul 2026
Welcome to Spike's documentation.
Contributions:2 reviews, 58 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year 9 months
ktkaushik/sails-mongoose
Jul 2013 - Apr 2021
Contributions:49 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years 9 months
sails-jsadapternodejsmongoosesails
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