Summary
Ketan Patil is a Head of Engineering and serial founder with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems for fast-paced startups and fintech. He combines hands-on engineering—having written hundreds of thousands of lines of code and built end-to-end trading and wealth platforms—with strategic leadership scaling teams from tens to hundreds. His work spans distributed mobile compute experiments, local LLM inference in agentic browsers, and low-latency trading infrastructure that replayed tick data and executed real-time orders. Comfortable leading through ambiguity, he prioritises time-to-market and pragmatic engineering trade-offs while also exploring ambitious R&D projects as passion initiatives. Based in Mumbai, he brings a mechanical engineering background and a knack for turning experimental prototypes into operational products and internal tooling. Notably, he has repeatedly moved between founding roles and senior engineering leadership, reflecting both entrepreneurial grit and deep system-level craft.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
Marathi, Hindi, English