Lokesh Basu
Software Engineering Manager at Amazon
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolLokesh Basu is a seasoned engineering manager with 12 years of experience building high-throughput, product-focused systems across payments, ads, video streaming, and VR. He’s led teams at Hike and now Amazon, architecting Wallet/UPI pipelines that process $1M+ daily for 20M+ users and shipping fraud-detection and automated gateway-routing systems to improve reliability. Previously a founding engineer on AdTech platforms at Hotstar and Udaan, he scaled real-time bidding and targeting pipelines that served hundreds of millions of users and materially grew ad revenue. His career began in VR and graphics at Samsung and SmartVizX, contributing to the open-source GearVRf framework with performance and stability improvements—an uncommon cross-domain mix that informs his pragmatic systems design. Known for staying hands-on while driving strategy, he blends product ownership with deep backend, data-pipeline, and mobile/graphics expertise.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
31reputation
4kreached
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Github Skills (13)
opengl10
android10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
shader8
http6
algorithm6
ios6
permutation6
php6
javascript6
google-maps-api6
google-maps6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Samsung/GearVRf
May 2015 - May 2015
The GearVR framework(GearVRf) is an Open Source VR rendering library for application development on VR-supported Android devices.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 52 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Lokesh primarily focused on the GearVR framework, making contributions to improve the Android VR rendering library. Their work included merging updates, implementing features such as frustum culling and occlusion queries to optimize rendering performance, and fixing memory leaks. They also addressed issues related to scene object visibility, enhancing the overall stability and efficiency of the framework for VR application development.
oculus-questvirtual-realityandroid-devicessupportedandroid
lokeshguddu/android
Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:149 commits in 7 months
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