Summary
Shubham Ratrey is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with eight years of experience building high‑scale consumer platforms from the ground up. As a founding engineer and later Lead Engineer at Kuku FM he architected systems that powered $100M ARR and handled more than 450 million daily requests, demonstrating deep expertise in performance, reliability, and growth-stage engineering. Now co‑founder of Kavana, he is focused on AI‑led social experiences for India and beyond, blending product intuition with hands‑on system design. Based in Bengaluru, he gravitates toward "new techky stuff" and enjoys turning experimental ideas into production‑grade services. Colleagues would describe him as an operator who moves fluidly between code, architecture, and hiring to scale teams and platforms. He’s as comfortable bootstrapping core infrastructure as he is recruiting top talent to accelerate AI-driven consumer products.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at St. Xavier's Public School