Samesh Lakhotia

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Passionate about building impactful software from scratch.
  • Experience in developing AI products and smart contracts.
  • Strong background in machine learning and backend development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fullstack Developer with a focus on AI and Fintech solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Back-end Web DevelopmentSmart ContractsMachine LearningKubernetesJavaRest ApisSemantic Web

Other Skills

Applied Machine LearningData AnalysisDistributed CachingDjangoFlaskJavaScriptMavenOperating SystemsPostgreSQLPython (Programming Language)Reinforcement LearningSecuritySocket ProgrammingTypeScriptVector Databases

About

- Extremely passionate about problem-solving and building impactful software. I love taking products from 0 -> 1. Love testing the market with my experiments. - Currently building personal AI companions @ Fest (usefest.com) - I am best reachable at samesh@usefest.com

Experience

South park commons

Member

May 2025Present · 10 mos

  • Rapidly experimenting with consumer AI products for India

Fest - your personal growth team

Co-Founder & CTO

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr

Myinvestorlist

Co-Founder

Feb 2025Mar 2025 · 1 mo

  • MyInvestorList helps you find an angel investor for your startup. 10,000+ users from 20+ countries. Built as a side project, 25k$ ARR

42 labs

Co-Founder

Jun 2024Feb 2025 · 8 mos

  • - Building a GenAI product studio shipping both B2C/B2B apps

Footium

Fullstack Developer

May 2022May 2024 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • - Founding Engineer at Footium.Club (3rd tech hire), contributed through the entire stack including smart contract development, game simulation engine & dev-ops.
TypeScriptweb3Back-End Web DevelopmentPostgreSQLdockerSmart Contracts

Microsoft

ML Research Engineer

Aug 2021Apr 2022 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Contributed to building a Reinforcement Learning(RL) framework that automatically tunes configuration parameters in deployment using bandit-style RL and online gradient-descent algorithms through easy-to-use Python and C# APIs
  • 20% improvement in throughput was observed when this framework was deployed on Kubernetes cluster workloads.
Python (Programming Language)Applied Machine LearningOperating SystemsKubernetesReinforcement LearningMachine Learning

Oracle

Software Engineer

Jun 2021Jul 2021 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • - Improved ML Infra by building middleware libraries (in Java) for caching providers (Redis, Guava) that significantly enhance performance by accelerating data retrieval, reducing latency, and optimizing resource use.

Google summer of code

Google Summer of Code 2021 Mentor/Admin

May 2021Aug 2021 · 3 mos

  • Google Summer of Code 2021 Mentor @ HydraEcosystem.org
  • Led development at HydraEcosystem.org - the Python client for Hydra W3C Community
  • Mentored 2 students on the complete software development lifecycle from research and planning, reviewing their code and finally deploying to production

Birla institute of technology and science, pilani - goa campus

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2021May 2021 · 4 mos

  • - TA for Advanced Computer Science course on Software for Embedded Systems (CS G523)
Distributed CachingMavenJava

Google summer of code

Google Summer of Code - Student Developer

May 2020Aug 2020 · 3 mos · Remote

  • At the OSS project, HydraEcosystem.org, I contributed significantly to developing interoperable, hypermedia-driven Web APIs.
  • Worked on improving the REST server for Semantic Web called Hydrus. Hydrus utilizes the power of Linked Data (JSON-LD) and Hydra(W3C) standards to create powerful REST APIs.
  • Added major features which included reengineering the database architecture, implementing new protocol specifications in the Python client and publishing better documentation to improve dev UX.

Developer society, bits goa

3 roles

Coordinator

Apr 2020Apr 2021 · 1 yr

  • Led student teams to ship cool software products for our university.
  • Contributed significantly to the open-source culture on campus, 3x-ed the GSoC contributors by mentoring & spreading awareness in student communities.

Senior Developer

Promoted

May 2019Apr 2020 · 11 mos

Member

Aug 2018Apr 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

Mercedes-benz research and development india

Software Engineer

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • In the pre-LLM era, built an AI agent for automated penetration testing using popular word2vec models & the National Vulnerability Database.
FlaskREST APIsSemantic WebPython (Programming Language)

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - BE

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