Hi, I'm,

Kush,

a software architect

passionate about developing systems, tools, and processes centered around catering business needs focussed on generating value. I champion platform philosophy and provide value by driving end-to-end implementations and driving the adoption by the consumers.

I prefer:

  • Architecting systems for scale with 3-5 years horizon over 10+ years horizon.
  • Iterative solution capable of faster GTM over perfect one-shot product.
  • Exploiting existing tools over reinventing the wheel.
  • Meaningful abstractions over magical illusions.
  • Readable Code over subtle optimizations.
  • Business driven code modularization over component driven modularity.
  • Investing over trading.
  • Automation over grunt work.
  • Learning over stagnation.

I keep an eye on the latest trends in technology projects and try to keep myself abreast by taking courses, reading blogs and tinkering with the stuff.

Resume

About Me

I possess 14+ years of experience in building robust enterprise-grade software solutions for high-volume businesses.

A typical day in my professional capacity involves interacting with consumers, architecting systems, engaging in long discussions on ideas and technology with colleagues and fellow architects, writing code, performing code reviews, mentoring, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Apart from my professional life, I enjoy learning and applying my knowledge through useful hands-on projects. I have developed few systems for personal use to assist with my investment decisions, fitness, nutrition, and home automation.

I pursue these interests by continuously engaging with courses, books, blogs, and hands-on projects. I have completed 100+ courses on various MOOC platforms in a wide variety of subjects (anything I find relevant and applicable).

Experience

Software Architect - IDrive
Jul 2025 - Present
  • Architect in Enterprise Backup team
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Team Building
  • Competetive Analysis
Principal Engineer - Druva
Apr 2019 - Jul 2025
  • Lead Architect in Developer Experience (DX) team responsible for architecting platform solutions consumed by each engineer across Druva.
  • Technical Evangelist responsible for communicating tools and services developed by self and the team, both internally and externally.
  • Formulating projects by understanding the working style and pain-points by interviewing engineering teams in the organization.
  • Architecting fool-proof solutions and documenting guidelines /best-practices for consumption across engineering teams in the organizations.
Technical Leader - PTC
Dec 2016 - Apr 2019
  • Focal point for design, development and maintenance activities of Creo Systems Team.
  • Spearheaded and leading a 5-member team focused on implementing resolutions and updates.
  • Developed an Infrastructural pipeline and monitoring system that streamlined and improved the go-to-market code deployment by 62%.
Senior Software Engineer - SAS
Nov 2014 - Dec 2016
  • Individual Contributor for developing and supporting four major components of the SAS Graph Library.
  • Developed a framework for systematic presentation of Infographics to the Visualization Library, helping gain a lot of customer traction on release globally.
  • Demonstrated and trained 15 employees from 4 teams to enable them using the capabilities of SAS Visualization Library.
Software Engineer - DS
Dec 2011 - Nov 2014
  • Key team player and participant in 3 different core R&D teams over the tenure, to work and deliver features in CATIA V5/V6.
Management Trainee - CIE
Jul 2011 - Dec 2011
Research Engineer at the Engineering Design Department focused on understanding lubricant film formation in heated dies of forging.
Summer Intern - Telcon
May 2010 - Jul 2010

Prepared report containing

  • Process Layout of Machines at Material Preparation Shop (MPS)
  • Problems along with their Countermeasures associated with the working process at Material Preparation Shop (MPS)

Education

2018 - 2020
Master of Science in Financial Engineering
WorldQuant University
  • Excellent Designation, 91%
  • Project: Data-driven Swing Trading Decision Support System for Retail Investors in Indian Market. Project Guide: Prof. Kenneth Abbott, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY
2019 - 2019
Udacity Nanodegree, Self-Driving Car Engineer
Udacity
Completed all the assignment which are publicly available on my github profile.
2007 - 2011
B.Tech in Manufacturing Engineering
National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (NIAMT)
GPA: 8.35 out of 10.0

Projects:

  • Modeling multi-echelon supply chain for optimized cost and customer satisfaction index.

    Project Guide: Prof. Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Department of Industrial Engineering, IIT Kharagpur

  • On establishing a reference feature for circularity evaluation from CMM and form data.

    Project Guide: Prof. G. Rajamohan, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, NIAMT

Intermediate
Dr. Virendra Swarup Platinum Jubilee School, Govind Nagar, Kanpur
  • Honors 80.2%, UP Board, 2007.
High School
Dr. Virendra Swarup Platinum Jubilee School, Govind Nagar, Kanpur
  • Honors 74.16%, UP Board, 2005.

Professional Projects

AI-Powered Workflow Bot
Microservices GPT-4 Python
AI-Powered Workflow Bot
A configuration-driven bot for the standardizaion and enforcement of custom policies to the code repository. This bot also leverages GPT-4 based code reviews.
Article
Hybrid Dev-Test Platform
AWS Kubernetes Helm
Hybrid Dev-Test Platform
A self-serve platform for developers to deploy there application code on production like (services running in on-premise datacenter utilizing the AWS services) environment that also provides functionalities like Hot-Reload which makes the development a breeze.
Infrastructure Autoscaler
Microservices GitLab Jenkins
Infrastructure Autoscaler
An Infrastructure Autoscaler Service for Dynamic Load Processing
Article

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