Summary
Kedar Mhaswade is a seasoned software engineer and educator with 16 years of experience building backend systems, developer tools, and analytics platforms, currently teaching and facilitating at the Free Learner’s School in Sunnyvale. He brings deep Java expertise—core, concurrency, and test-driven development—paired with hands-on experience in large-scale graph OLTP/OLAP systems from his tenure at Uber and in product modernization at Natera. A pragmatic generalist, Kedar has founded and led startups, designed CI/CD and cloud deployments, and has shipped production systems at Apple and Sun/Oracle, including work that contributed to GlassFish’s open-source maturation. He is comfortable across Linux/AWS ecosystems, has explored Go and machine learning, and favors clean, maintainable code and measurable test coverage (78% delivered in a legacy migration). Known for digging into concurrency issues and instrumenting systems for operability, he combines an entrepreneurial mindset with a teacher’s curiosity for explaining and improving complex software.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Sir Parashurambhau College, Pune
B.E., B.E. at Govt. College of Engineering, Pune