Vivek Kothari
Principal Software Engineer at Zendesk
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolVivek Kothari is a Principal Software Engineer based in Pune with ~15 years building scalable distributed systems across e-commerce, payments, trading, collaboration and HR domains. He combines deep backend and infra expertise—having architected from-scratch platforms at ModernLoop and currently building an AI-native agent platform at Enlyft—with hands-on experience in Scala, Terraform, AWS, GraphQL and productionizing LLM-driven chatbots. Vivek has repeatedly scaled services to millions of events and 100+ paid customers, and brings strong analytical thinking, client-facing communication and agile delivery skills to complex projects. Notably, he designed an in-house protobuf CRUD framework and multiple reusable libraries (e.g., logging, gatekeeper) that reduced operational friction across teams. An active open-source contributor, he blends startup velocity with enterprise-grade rigor, making him effective at both new product builds and large-system modernization.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at Sinhgad College of EngineeringHSC Science Stream, HSC Science Stream at Padmashri Vikhe Patil College, Pravara Nagar
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
472reputation
85kreached
9answers
13questions
Github Skills (185)
http10
websocket10
http-client10
rpc-server10
aiohttp-client10
command-line-tool10
aiohttp10
static-analysis10
nosql10
protocol-buffers10
validation10
micro-framework10
rpc-library10
websocket-client10
retrofit10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vivekkothari/marathon-rangifier
Dec 2015 - Nov 2023
Service discovery for Marathon applications
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years
vivekkothari/dice
Feb 2025 - May 2025
DiceDB is an open-source in-memory database with query subscriptions.
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 13 branches in 2 months
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