Kushagra Singh is a systems-focused software leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling backend and infrastructure services, currently serving as Vice President at D. E. Shaw. He combines hands-on engineering—designing high-throughput services that served over 10M daily users—with people leadership running teams that build observability and watchdog systems for large Linux fleets. A CMU master's student concentrating in systems, he has deep expertise in distributed metrics, Kubernetes-based test clusters, and communications platforms that moved mission-critical traffic in production. His work at cure.fit cut costs by over $100k annually while scaling notification throughput 25x, and he has academic roots in network measurement and NLP research published at ACM and ACL workshops. Known as a "part-time hacker," he blends research instincts with pragmatic production delivery and has a track record of building tooling that makes complex testing and deployment workflows repeatable.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
High School, High School at Sanskriti School
Master's degree Computational Data Science; Systems Concentration, Master's degree Computational Data Science; Systems Concentration at Carnegie Mellon University
Contributions:2 PRs, 142 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
flintnumber-theorypythontheory
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Kushagra Singh - Vice President at The D. E. Shaw Group