Vaibhav Lodha is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead with 7 years of experience designing high-throughput backend systems, scalable APIs, and secure cloud infrastructure. He has a strong track record at SquadStack driving projects that boosted system throughput 5x, cut latency by 90%, removed PII dependencies to reduce compliance risk by 70%, and delivered a voice-bot orchestration pipeline that handled 5K+ calls in its first month. Proficient in Python, AWS, FastAPI and observability tooling, he has repeatedly led migrations, API rewrites and billing overhauls that improved performance and reduced operational costs by up to 55%. Vaibhav mentors engineers, fosters cross-functional collaboration with product and finance teams, and has automated processes saving hundreds of hours monthly. An active open-source contributor, he improved websocket session timeout handling for the pipecat conversational AI framework, extending robustness to FastAPI-based websockets. Based in Rajasthan, India, he blends pragmatic engineering with security-first design to make systems faster, cheaper, and easier to operate.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at Swami Keshwanand Inst. Of Tech. Mgt. & Gramothan,Jaipur
Open Source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 reviews, 27 PRs, 30 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vaibhav primarily focused on enhancing the websocket server functionality within the `pipecat` repository. Their contributions involved adding and correcting features related to session timeout management for websocket connections, including the `on_session_timeout` event handler. They refactored code by moving logic to the `WebsocketServerInputTransport`. Moreover, the user extended this session timeout mechanism to the FastAPI websocket server implementation.
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
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Vaibhav Lodha - Senior Software Engineer 1 at Endowus