Kushal Shah
Co-Founder And CEO at Trestle
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKushal Shah is a founder and operator with 12+ years building identity-first products and scaling teams from 10 to 300+ employees across three continents. As Co-founder and CEO of Trestle, he’s reimagining Identity APIs for call tracking and lead verification, drawing on deep product and engineering leadership from Ekata/Whitepages and early Microsoft platform experience. He led Ekata’s global expansion, product-market fit discovery, and integration into Mastercard in a transaction driven to close in 2021, bringing rare end-to-end M&A and GTM execution skills to product strategy. Kushal pairs technical fluency (MS in CS) with an MBA from Chicago Booth, and has hands-on startup grit from founding two prior ventures that taught him 0->1 growth, fundraising, and platform constraints. Known for turning strong SEO/data assets and developer-platform thinking into scalable revenue models, he thrives at the intersection of identity data, product-led growth, and operator-led execution.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Entrepreneurship Marketing and Strategic Management, MBA Entrepreneurship Marketing and Strategic Management at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Binghamton University
Github Skills (8)
api7
java2
client-library2
openapi2
twilio2
csharp1
dotnet1
api-client1
Github contributions (5)
whitepages/Whitepages-Pro-API-Examples
Jun 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:64 commits, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
apiwhitepages
adroit24/proapi-twilio-demo
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:64 commits, 4 pushes in 1 month
twiliointegrating
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