Kusha Sahu

Co-Founder

New Delhi, Delhi, India7 yrs 7 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 8+ years of experience in software architecture and engineering.
  • Expertise in AI/ML applications and space tech.
  • Advocate for women in STEM and active blogger.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Developer with expertise in AI and Space Tech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (ai)Distributed SystemsCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentMicroservicesA/b Testing

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAmazon CloudFrontArtificial Neural NetworksAstropyBasic HTMLBasic JavaBasic JoomlaCC++CMAFCSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CloudflareCloudinaryComputer Vision

About

Software Architect / Tech Leader / Software Engineer by trade, stargazer by night. 👩‍💻 Delhi-NCR based Software engineer, architect 🔭 Astronomy Enthusiast 🔊 Advocate for women in core STEM 📚 Avid Reader With 8+ years of experience, Kusha specializes in turning complex software challenges into elegant, scalable solutions. When she is not debugging, diving into AI ethics or writing about herself in third person, she is gazing at the stars through her telescope, pondering the universe's greatest mysteries. She has also recently started to write blogs that explore the intersection of software, AI, and space tech. Check out her latest musings on https://kushasahu.medium.com/ Currently she is side hustling on a astronomy platform called Starithm. In her downtime, she is catching episodes of Psych and The Big Bang Theory. Come on Son! What She Does Best (Areas of Expertise): - Backend Development: Crafting distributed systems, scalable architectures, and algorithmic solutions for complex challenges. - AI/ML Applications: Computer vision, robotics, and MLOps, turning ideas into working systems. - Space Tech Enthusiast: Leveraging geospatial analytics for satellite tracking and space debris monitoring. Tech Arsenal: Programming: Python, Typescript, My SQL, Mongo, Postgres, Nodejs, Flask, FastAPI, numpy, pandas. AI/ML Frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Langgraph Cloud: AWS, cloudflare. Tools & Processes: Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Cloudformation, jenkins 💡 Fun facts: She has never had coffee. All her energy comes from sheer nerdiness and determination. 💬 Let’s connect! Whether it’s discussing AI, geospatial analytics, or the deeper meaning of The Big Bang Theory, She would love to chat. Together, let’s code, innovate, and maybe figure out why time travels in one direction. [Heard about Pluto ? That's messed up right ?].

Experience

7 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Starithm (independent project)

Creater

Jun 2025Present · 1 yr · Delhi, India · Remote

  • Created Starithm (https://starithm.ai/) as a platform to experiment with building AI-powered tools for space data intelligence. The long-term vision is to bridge the gap between the vast, unstructured streams of astronomy and space situational awareness data and the need for timely, actionable insights. Starithm.ai aims to make scientific alerts and orbital data more accessible, structured, and useful for researchers, professionals, and enthusiasts.
  • As the first step, I built NovaTrace (currently at a MVP stage), an event intelligence platform that aggregates, structures, and visualizes unstructured textual astronomy alerts from different sources. NovaTrace provides searchable, shareable timelines of astrophysical events, enabling quick situational awareness around discoveries such as gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and transients. The platform is powered by a microfrontend architecture React interface (Vite), backend microservices and data ingestion pipelines in Python and TypeScript, and PostgreSQL for structured data storage. Data ingestion uses Qwen 2.5 and Mistral 7B for information extraction. NovaTrace represents the foundation for building scalable tools that can handle real-time, multi-messenger astronomy data and evolve into broader applications in space data intelligence.
  • Explore at https://starithm.ai/novatrace
  • Starithm comes from “star” and “algorithm,” symbolizing the use of intelligent systems to interpret signals from the universe.
Python (Programming Language)Prompt EngineeringData ScienceTypeScriptnodejPostgreSQL+4

Urban company

3 roles

Software Development Engineer 3

Promoted

Jan 2022Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Monitoring automation for Micro-frontends
  • Enabling performance and error monitoring for every screen and every action (clicks, navigation..) for every micro-frontend automatically.
  • Scaling this system to handle overall 60k throughput (and growing)
  • Automatic alerts for click drop, screen view drop, increases loading times, and unclickable buttons, leading to reducing bad user experience impact.
  • System automatically caught issues such as Cloudflare outages and increased connectivity issues, unnecessary background API hits which caused increased RAM usage, fraud coupon usage, and payment failure.
  • Asset Monitoring and Optimisation
  • Optimising Images, Videos for the performance of the apps.
  • Building Images monitoring system to catch unhealthy images
  • The theme saved 2TB daily for image data transfer over CDN and 1 TB daily for video data transfer, which translated into cost savings as well
Distributed SystemsGitCloudinaryNode.jsGrafanaH.264+10

Software Development Engineer 2

Promoted

Apr 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Most significant features:
  • 1. FB Custom Audiences: Node scripts integrating with FB API for custom audiences for better targeting. 23% percent savings on the money spent.
  • 2. Completely (ownership of ) revamped the bookings page of the app.
  • 3. Integrated razor pay for making a COVID fund for the partners of the company. The fund raised around 30L.
  • 4. Provider Tips: Made the capability for a customer to give tips online to providers. This enabled the providers with extra money during the tough times of COVID.
  • 5. UC Essentials, FOMO subscription sachets, Cross-selling
  • 6. In-house Frontend framework 'Orion': Any typescript developer can write frontend. Software design, architecture and implementation for standardisation, adoption and automation features such auto-generation of code, code quality and testing setup, platform library releases and versioning
  • Interviews for hiring, mentoring new employees, and juniors. On-call support.
  • Started weekly knowledge sessions for the team.
Distributed SystemsGitNode.jsPython (Programming Language)MongoDBMicroservices+1

Software development Engineer 1

Oct 2018Apr 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Software design for Subscriptions Product. The feature included the following:
  • 1. Layer for A/B experimentation. over 50 experiments on membership plans, ui components, renewals etc.
  • 2. Purchase of memberships and discounting on products due to memberships
  • 3. Maintain and update system according to new requirements
  • The product contributes around 23% of the revenue
  • Rebooking /Book Again Feature: ReBook an entire booking:
  • 1. Display available/ unavailable services, parts of services.
  • 2. Display new prices of services
  • 3. New slots screen for better user experience.
  • Resulted in 5% increase in request funnel, 20% decrease in CX calls and 5% decrease in cancellations of requests.
  • Unit Testing
  • Researched among different frameworks and implemented unit testing using JEST, contributed to the in house library for other teams to use. Now used by almost all teams and microservices.
  • Mentored around 7 new team members. Participated in hiring drives and took interviews for hiring.
GitNode.jsPython (Programming Language)MongoDBSoftware DevelopmentA/B Testing

Tata digital health

Associate Programmer

Jul 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Pharmacy Side Product: Complete Support Dashboard implementation, maintenance and support for consumer app/web for pharmacy efficient working, integration of new vendors and new requirements, and maintenance of master data of medicines in Postgres database.
  • Interpretation/Reading of Emails from vendors through code and updating order status, cost value and creation of sub-orders if required, marking complete/sub-order completion.
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Integration: Backend support to include SEO by modifying search by location logic in all doctor/clinic searches by web and developed an efficient round-robin algorithm to fetch the top searched specialities in nearby locations.
  • S3 Security: Implementation of secure and private upload and access of all files on S3 with support for access of all files on consumer app, doctor-side software and pharmacy support dashboard using pre-signed urls.
  • IText PDF: Generation of consultation summary and prescriptions for both consumer and doctor using iText in PDF format according to business template requirements.
  • Implemented a face-recognition API using aws rekognition for an office hackathon, implementation for custom notifications to consumers, solved 60+ bugs on various microservices of the products, support on email-reading of various 3rd parties in API to update statuses and information of orders and notifying users.
Git

Ihs markit

Software Developer Intern

Jun 2016Aug 2016 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Worked with the central development team on dynamic report generation using Business Intelligence Tool, Jaspersoft (hyperlinked charts, subreports), increasing the efficiency and accuracy manifold, worked on Bootstrap for a internal website.

Hcl technologies

Trainee

Jun 2015Jul 2015 · 1 mo

Smilyo educational charitable society ®

Joomla Intern

Sep 2014Mar 2015 · 6 mos

  • Development and maintenance of social work website of the organization on Joomla, Leader of the online team for Financial Literacy Campaign.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Master of Science - MS — Machine Learning

Aug 2022Jul 2025

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) — Electronics and Communication Engineering

Jan 2013Jan 2017

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