Kostub D. — CTO
I am a seasoned engineering leader with a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions for startups and large enterprises. I have a passion for building and leading high-performance teams across geographies and domains. As the VP & Global Head of Engineering at WorkSpan, I have successfully scaled the engineering organization to 80+ engineers in India and Europe, while driving revenue growth by 3x and securing Series C funding. As a key member of the executive leadership team, I have set up and grown the India development center from scratch. I have a strong technical background with a focus on building systems that scale. I have delivered critical 0-1 initiatives to grow WorkSpan revenue, such as co-sell applications with leading cloud providers, and built innovative core platform capabilities, including dynamic multi-company data models, multi-source integrations, reference data management, and a business process automation framework. Prior to WorkSpan, I co-founded MathChat, an innovative mobile app for math collaboration that reached over 350k downloads and was featured in the top 50 education apps on the AppStore. My open-source contributions include iosMath, a library for typesetting LaTeX equations in iOS applications, MathEditor, a WYSIWYG editor for math formulae on iOS, and Dgraph, a graph database written in Golang. I have worked at both large companies such as Amazon and Google as well as various startups, including RichRelevance, Ning and Socrata, where I built new innovative models for the recommendation engine, improved and scaled the model building infrastructure by moving to Hadoop, and developed classification algorithms on Hadoop. As an engineering leader, I take pride in creating a fun and engaging culture to keep the team motivated and keep attrition rates low. I have set up the engineering processes and strategy for hiring, promotions, releases, and quality. I have also organized the team into small independent units to improve execution velocity. Additionally, I built the Quality Engineering, SRE, and Technical Program Management functions from scratch. Overall, I am a hands-on leader with a proven track record to turn teams around, build high-performance teams, and deliver critical 0-1 initiatives to grow revenue. I have a strong technical background with a focus on building scalable systems, and I thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EdTech engineering leader with extensive experience in scalable systems.
Location: Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Experience: 20 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- People Management
- Organizational Leadership
- Team Leadership
- Software As A Service (saas)
- Software Design
- Architecture
- Python (programming Language)
- Ios Development
- Xamarin Products
- Back-end Web Development
- C++
- Machine Learning
- Java
Career Highlights
- Scaled engineering team to 80+ engineers across geographies.
- Delivered critical 0-1 initiatives to grow revenue by 3x.
- Co-founded a top 50 education app with 350k downloads.
Work Experience
Goldcast
Head of Engineering (2 yrs 10 mos)
WorkSpan
VP of Engineering (1 yr 10 mos)
Sr Director of Engineering, Head of India Operations (2 yrs 1 mo)
Principal Engineer (2 yrs 1 mo)
MathChat
Co-Founder, CTO (2 yrs 3 mos)
Sr. Software Engineer (2 yrs 8 mos)
RichRelevance
Senior Software Engineer (5 mos)
Ning Interactive Inc.
Software Engineer (3 mos)
Socrata
Sr. Software Engineer (1 yr 7 mos)
Amazon
Development Manager, (2 yrs 3 mos)
Software Development Engineer, (2 yrs 9 mos)
Education
BTech at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
MS at University of Washington