Phaneendra Hegde
Founder at Looma Ai
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPhaneendra Hegde is a founder and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building high-growth, real-time systems and B2B SaaS platforms from first principles. He has repeatedly taken startup ideas to scale—architecting systems that handle billions of daily requests with sub-10ms latency, real-time ML pipelines, and terabytes of daily ingestion while cutting operational costs through pragmatic optimizations. At Looma Ai he’s applying multi-modal AI to automate creative audits for ad optimization, and at pubX he led engineering as the first employee, owning everything from product requirements to JS SDKs and serverless infrastructure. He combines hands-on technical depth across Python, Django, FastAPI, React and AWS with product-focused leadership that embeds cost-awareness and operational rigor. Based in Bengaluru, he thrives at the intersection of ad-tech, logistics and AI/ML, and often favors building internal automation and tooling that multiply team productivity—an approach that’s driven measurable business impact.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science and Engineering, BE, Computer Science and Engineering at PESIT Bangalore
English, Kannada, Hindi
Stackoverflow
11reputation
900reached
1answer
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
prebid10
header-bidding10
advertising10
django9
creative-commons8
python8
modular8
skeleton7
maven6
bootstrapping6
django-project6
java6
bootstrap6
hadoop6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Pubx-ai/Prebid.js
Oct 2020 - Feb 2025
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Contributions:7 reviews, 20 PRs, 53 pushes in 4 years 4 months
headerprebidjavascriptconfusingbidding
Pubx-ai/prebid.github.io
Nov 2020 - Jun 2024
Repo that controls Prebid.org website
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
prebid
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