Summary
Lokesh Gupta is a founder and product-led entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience building and scaling product, engineering, education, and consulting businesses from India. He repeatedly turns practitioner expertise into profitable,VC-free ventures—creating ProductHood School, InterviewHood (a jobseeker OS), Solopreneur.Media and The Solopreneur School to help professionals grow, transition, and monetize skills as solo founders. A former product leader and CTO across fast-growing internet businesses, he blends hands-on product delivery (APIs, mobile, machine learning initiatives) with cohort-based education and community-led learning. He’s also the author of Art of Email List Growth and founder/editor of developer resources like HowToDoInJava.com and restfulapi.net, reflecting a long-running commitment to developer education. Known for viewing careers as iterated products, he specializes in turning complex career and hiring problems into practical systems that scale.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
PGPM, Business Administration and Management, General, PGPM, Business Administration and Management, General at Sunstone