Summary
Tilak Lodha is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and shipping product-driven systems, currently serving as Associate Director of Engineering at Zepto. He rose through hands-on product engineering and technical lead roles at Gojek, owning end-to-end features including supply optimization to improve driver earnings. Trained at IIT Indore and with research internships at IIT Delhi and niki.ai, he blends practical software delivery with machine learning and NLP experience. He has a track record of leading cross-functional teams and student entrepreneurship initiatives, demonstrating both technical depth and people leadership. Outside work he writes a blog, enjoys reading and music, and maintains a personal site that reflects his interest in sharing learnings. A detail that sets him apart: he couples production engineering rigor with prior academic research, enabling him to translate experimental ML ideas into reliable product features.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Indore
English, Hindi