Mahendra Kalkura
Vice President Of Engineering at Yellowstone Labs
Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolMahendra Kalkura is a seasoned Vice President of Engineering and full-stack software engineer with over 23 years of experience and a strong track record building scalable, high-performance systems. He spent 13 years running his own software firm and has led transformational modernizations—migrating legacy platforms to React, Go, and AWS and implementing real-time personalization using Neo4j. His notable creations include Fantastico F3 (100,000+ installs) and tweetTV (processing ~90,000 tweets/hour), demonstrating both product-market impact and production-grade throughput design. As CTO/co-founder of Yellowstone Labs and VP of Engineering at Fulcrum SaaS, he blends hands-on architecture, distributed systems expertise, and team leadership across long-term enterprise engagements. Mahendra is comfortable across multiple stacks (Python, Go, Elixir, JS, PHP) and frequently architects end-to-end solutions from MVP to acquisition-ready platforms. Based in Karnataka, India, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic focus on observability, scalability, and measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer and Information Sciences, General at CMRIT
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Github Skills (11)
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rdf10
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postgresql9
golang9
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rss-reader8
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mahendrakalkura/SIT-99
May 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
mahendrakalkura/egeli-informatik.ch
Aug 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:5 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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