Summary
Kushal Poddar is a full-stack engineer and two-time founder with 7 years of experience building scalable web and backend systems across startups and research labs in Delhi. He specializes in backend-first architectures using Python, Java, NodeJS and Spring Boot, and ships full-stack products with React/Vue frontends and MongoDB/MySQL-backed microservices, Redis, Kafka and Docker. At Listen2It he helped scale AI-driven video and avatar products to 100k+ users, and now runs Poko Video, a screenshot and video editor aimed at SaaS teams. His early research work includes civic tech and automated data extraction projects, and he has led small teams to deliver hiring and testing platforms used by companies like Adobe. Known for blending product sensibility with hands-on engineering, he often prefers designing elegant backend systems that make frontend features effortless.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Jawaharlal Nehru University
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at Kalyani Government Engineering College
Science, A, Science, A at Mangalam Vidyaniketan