Summary
Kshitij Kotasthane is a Senior Engineer and MTech candidate in Computer Science & Engineering (Cybersecurity) at IIT Delhi with nine years of professional experience building backend systems and scalable microservices. He has owned product development at startups and led backend engineering efforts using C++, Python, JavaScript, Flask, PostgreSQL and AWS, with hands-on experience in containerized, stateless architectures. Kshitij’s practical systems focus was sharpened by an MLH Fellowship placement at Facebook where he won the orientation hackathon and contributed to React Native’s ecosystem. Currently serving as Senior Engineer at Solar Energy Corporation of India and Nucleus Placement Coordinator at IIT Delhi, he blends production engineering with academic rigor and campus leadership. Notably, his background spans applied ML (fake-image detection), blockchain experimentation, and data annotation tooling—demonstrating a curiosity for merging research-grade techniques into production software.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya