Summary
Kushagra Arora is a lead backend engineer with a decade of experience building scalable AI and infrastructure systems, now heading a six-person backend team at MarkovML after starting as their third backend hire. He designs and ships production-ready ML infra and no-code AI workflow engines, notable for a multiprocessing execution engine that cut runtime by 94% and a model inference/registry platform that accelerated rollouts 15x. Comfortable from architecture to code reviews, he balances rapid iteration with long-term maintainability and has a knack for developer experience—creating CLI tooling and reusable integration frameworks that turned weeks of integration work into a single day. His background includes multi-language systems work at Microsoft involving Spark, Orleans, and Cosmos DB, plus early ML research experience in deep learning and model tuning. Based in Bengaluru, he favors pragmatic, extensible designs and enjoys making systems that save time for teammates, users, and future engineers. Not obvious from the title: he thinks in “iteration paths,” deliberately optimizing for incremental delivery that compounds into large reliability and speed gains.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech CSE, Computer SC, 8.91, B.Tech CSE, Computer SC, 8.91 at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi