Vyankatesh Sawalapurkar is a founding engineer and software professional with eight years of experience building production systems across startups and major tech companies. A final-year IIT Bombay undergrad in Mechanical Engineering with a Computer Science minor, he blends hardware-rooted systems thinking with strong software skills in Android development, computer graphics, and competitive programming. He shipped features at Adobe and Rubrik and now helps shape product and engineering at AI startup Maximor AI, bringing both product-level ownership and low-level implementation chops. His early contributions to ODK-X during Google Summer of Code — including migrating sync backends and adding comprehensive tests — highlight a pragmatic open-source mindset and attention to reliability. Based in Bengaluru, he also has hands-on leadership experience from leading an autonomous underwater vehicle team at IITB, showing an unusual mix of embedded/mechanical and cloud-native software experience.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Matriculation, Matriculation at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya - JNV
Intermediate, Intermediate at Shri. Dawale Jr College, Akola
Skunkworks-bat is an Android app for field workers that receives notifications sent by their supervisors through skunkworks-parrot.
Contributions:14 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
supervisorsbatandroidnotificationsandroid-app
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Vyankatesh Sawalapurkar - Founding Engineer at Maximor AI