Summary
Kunal Baweja is a software engineer with 11 years of experience designing scalable distributed systems and high-throughput notification services, currently at Harvey after leading an AI product and engineering team at Hexus. He has driven notification and recommendation product strategy at Twitter and Reddit, blending technical leadership with cross-functional work across product, design, research, and legal. Kunal co-founded a YC-backed startup focused on personalized copy optimization and has a track record of shipping realtime, cloud-native systems using Scala, Go, Java and large-scale infrastructure on GCP/AWS. He mentors engineers to broaden their technical and soft-skill impact and emphasizes secure, accessible consumer solutions that meet business needs. Notably, his early research work includes scalable consensus and secure storage projects, reflecting a foundation in systems security as well as product-facing engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Y Combinator
Class XII (Senior Secondary) Science & Maths, Class XII (Senior Secondary) Science & Maths at The Emerald Heights International School
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Hindi, Punjabi, Telugu