Bio
Pradeep Kaushik is an engineering leader with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and leading large engineering teams — tackling complex technical problems at scale at Samsung, Intuit, and Atlassian.
A few years ago he made a deliberate pivot into the social sector. Today he leads engineering for Dalgo, a data analytics platform built for nonprofits, as Associate Director at Project Tech4Dev. Dalgo is used by 25+ nonprofits directly, with hundreds more introduced to it through bootcamps and demos.
Alongside that, Pradeep works as a fractional CTO for nonprofits — helping organizations that need senior technology judgment assess their systems and set a strategy for what's next, without needing a full-time hire.
He brings the same engineering rigor to how philanthropic capital is evaluated and deployed, as a member of the Grants Review Committee at Social Venture Partners (SVP) Bengaluru, and mentors leadership as Lead Partner with the Rishi Foundation and Swadha Foundation.
In 2025, he completed Cohort 22 of the ILSS Leadership Program, deepening his grounding in social-sector leadership.
Pradeep writes about engineering leadership, AI, and technology for the social sector on his blog.
Experience
A career told as stories — the work, the wins, and what it added up to. The résumé has the point-by-point version.
Head of Engineering, Dalgo
Leads engineering for Dalgo, an open-source data platform built for the social sector. It's used directly by 25+ nonprofits — with hundreds more introduced through bootcamps and demos — helping mission-driven teams turn scattered data into decisions and measurable impact. The same two decades of engineering rigor, now pointed at problems that matter.
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Fractional CTO
Advises Janaagraha — one of India's most respected civic and urban-governance nonprofits — as a fractional CTO. Brings senior technology judgment to help shape strategy, strengthen engineering capacity, and chart a path for data and AI adoption, without the cost of a full-time hire.
About Janaagraha
Head of Engineering — Statuspage
Joined Atlassian's Bengaluru site when it was around 100 people and grew alongside it as it scaled past 2,000. Managed a 50+ person organization across Jira, Jira Service Management, and Opsgenie, then led Statuspage end-to-end as Head of Engineering — owning scale, reliability, and revenue. Along the way, championed the site's Innovation program and ran ShipIt, the quarterly hackathon, for 500+ engineers.
Statuspage
Staff Software Engineer / Team Lead
Spent nearly a decade on mobile TurboTax (Android), Intuit's flagship tax product used by millions of Americans. On the side — for two years, alongside the day job — built and ran TaxOKPlease, an internal startup bringing simple tax filing to India, which earned an Innovation Award at the Intuit India level. Promoted to Staff Engineer, then moved into building and leading a high-performing team.
Lead Engineer
Was part of the core team behind Samsung's very first Galaxy and the early Galaxy S series — building key applications that shipped on the devices that launched Samsung's Android era, at a moment when the smartphone itself was still being invented.
Software Engineer
Built REO systems for the US sub-prime mortgage industry, sharpening backend engineering fundamentals across feature development and early product-innovation work.
Software Engineer
Where it all began — the first job out of college. At a startup building multi-modal communication products, cut his teeth on Java, Struts, and J2EE, including delivering a portal for Piramal Pharma.
Advisory & Leadership
Board, advisory, and mentoring roles beyond day-to-day engineering leadership.
Education
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