Summary
Kaustubh Nawade is a software development engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building robotics, distributed systems, and web-scale software, currently contributing to AWS Distributed SQL in Seattle. He brings a rare blend of academic depth in electronics and physics from BITS Pilani and practical startup grit from co-founding Octoloop Systems, where he led design and control of industrial robotic arms and firmware. Prior roles at Amazon and GreyOrange reinforced his expertise in automation, real-time control, and scalable backend services. Notably, he helped create India’s first autonomous humanoid soccer-playing robot and has deep experience with ROS and embedded DSP implementations. He combines systems-level thinking with algorithmic and machine-learning interests, making him comfortable across firmware, control stacks, and cloud-native data systems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
English, Hindi, Marathi