Kaushal Hooda

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 7 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Director of Engineering with extensive leadership experience.
Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
Proven track record in AI/ML and cybersecurity solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in AI/ML and cybersecurity.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipSoftware ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentRobotic Process Automation (rpa)Ai/ml

Other Skills

TypeScriptStart-up LeadershipDirector levelPeople ManagementGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Large Language Models (LLM)Product ManagementProgrammingLinuxPythonRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)React.jsNode.jsAmazon DynamodbAgile Methodologies

About

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry with experience in building distributed and scalable systems. Skilled in Java, and Python. B.Tech Computer Science from IIT Delhi.

Experience

9 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 3 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Maxhome.ai

Director of Engineering

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Leading and building engineering end-to-end: strategy, scalable systems, hands-on execution, and team growth.

TypeScriptStart-up LeadershipEngineering LeadershipDirector levelPeople ManagementSoftware Architecture+3

Loop ai - delivery intelligence platform

Staff Backend Engineer

Apr 2025 – Sep 2025 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Lead the TruROI team, projects include:
Conversational AI Agent
Managed marketing service for clients
Automated campaign management on 3P Delivery Platforms

Large Language Models (LLM)Robotic Process Automation (RPA)Software Development

Safe security

Principal Engineer

Dec 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built SafeX (https://safe.security/safex/), a GenAI based cybersecurity assistant, leveraging SOTA LLMs, RAG, Fine-Tuning, Agents.
Leading the AI/ML and Datalake/Analytics initiatives.

ProgrammingLinuxPythonRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Large Language Models (LLM)Start-up Leadership+7

Zepto

Lead Software Engineer

Dec 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead of the Monetization team, responsible for the endemic and non-endemic advertising on Zepto platform.

ProgrammingLinuxPythonSoftware Development

Zeta suite

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Part of the Cipher Team working on Single-Sign On, Authentication and Authorization, Identity and Access Management, Key Management etc.

ProgrammingLinuxPythonJavaSoftware Development

Google

Software Engineer

Apr 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

Part of the Google One team.

ProgrammingLinuxJavaSoftware Development

Flipkart

2 roles

Software Developer II

Jul 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

ProgrammingLinuxPythonJavaSoftware Development

Software Developer I

Dec 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

SDE in the PaaS team.
Jan - Mar 2017: Flux, an Event driven Workflow Orchestrator.
Apr 2017 - Mar 2020: Varadhi, a messaging service built on Kafka, providing reliability, ordering, retries and failure handling. It is the primary messaging platform used across Flipkart. Lead developer since July 2018.

ProgrammingLinuxPythonJavaSoftware Development