Mahendra Kutare
Founder at Berkeley SkyDeck
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMahendra Kutare is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 16 years building data, ML, computer vision, and cloud infrastructure across startups and enterprise teams. He founded DeepTrail in 2024 after leading data and ML platform efforts at KeepTruckin and NIO, and earlier scaling data services at Mesosphere and E8 Security (acquired by VMware). Mahendra excels at taking research-grade systems into production—designing secure, high-throughput distributed pipelines for analytics, autonomous vehicles, fleet safety, and cybersecurity. As a Berkeley SkyDeck advisor he evaluates and mentors startups on ML, computer vision, and data architecture, combining operator experience with startup selection instincts. He pairs deep academic roots from Georgia Tech with hands-on product delivery, having built and led teams across San Francisco, Europe, and India. An understated strength is his consistent focus on data and model security in cloud-native systems, often shaping the risk posture of the platforms he runs.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science Mathematics, High School Science Mathematics at T.B.S Vidya Niketan Nawapara RajimMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (60)
mesosphere10
universe10
dcos10
package10
r9
java9
python9
package-manager9
scale8
dynamic-code8
sql8
scala8
large-scale8
package-repository8
jdbc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CentagonX/xpilot
May 2023 - Aug 2023
A library to build custom LLM, agents, and natural language querying infrastructure
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
flexera-public/right_http_connection
Sep 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:12 commits in 23 days
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