# Résumé — Kushal Patankar

> Résumé of Kushal Patankar — founding engineer and system architect. Six years building AI products, distributed backends, and the infrastructure under them.

**Kushal Patankar** — Founding Engineer & System Architect

[149.kush@gmail.com](mailto:149.kush@gmail.com) · [peritissimus.com](https://peritissimus.com) · [github.com/peritissimus](https://github.com/peritissimus) · [linkedin.com/in/peritissimus](https://linkedin.com/in/peritissimus)

## Experience

### [Zoca](https://peritissimus.com/work/zoca) — Founding Engineer
Nov 2024 — Present · Phoenix, Arizona (On-site)

- Built automated social content generation powering 1,000+ local businesses.
- Migrated infrastructure to Terraform, cutting deploys from 1.5 minutes to 1–4 seconds.
- Introduced a message queue and worker architecture that unblocked independent feature deploys.
- Led the TypeScript migration across the codebase and set the code review standards.

### Deepmynd Innovative Technologies — Co-Founder
May 2024 — Present · India

- Building next-generation AI products for Indian consumers.

### [Brihaspati AI](https://peritissimus.com/work/brihaspati) — Co-Founder
May 2024 — Nov 2024 · On-site

- Implemented dynamic prompt engineering and context-aware memory retrieval, improving D7 retention by 20%.

### [Dübverse](https://peritissimus.com/work/dubverse) — Founding Engineer
Dec 2021 — Apr 2024 · Gurugram, India (On-site)

- Architected an enterprise AI video dubbing platform processing 570,000+ hours of audio-video for 1M+ users.
- Shipped 6,000+ production commits across eight codebases, supporting 40%+ B2B growth.

### [SimpleSounds](https://peritissimus.com/work/simplesounds) — Co-Founder
Feb 2021 — Dec 2021 · Bengaluru, India (Remote)

### CatrovaCer — Co-Founder & CTO
Jan 2020 — Jan 2021 · Greater Chicago Area (Remote)

## Skills

- **Languages:** TypeScript, Python, Swift, Go, SQL
- **Backend:** NestJS, FastAPI, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, message queues
- **Frontend:** React, Next.js, Astro, SvelteKit, Three.js
- **Infrastructure:** AWS, Terraform, Docker, LocalStack, CI/CD pipelines
- **Applied AI:** LLM integration, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, Whisper

## Education

**Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur** — B.Tech, 2021

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