Pradeep Kaushik

Engineering Leader | Social Sector | Fractional CTO | Mentor

Bengaluru, Indialinkedin.com/in/pradnkgithub.com/pradnk

Experience

Head of Engineering, Dalgo · Fractional CTO · SVP Bengaluru Grants Committee

Aug 2025 — Present

Project Tech4Dev · Bengaluru

  • Lead engineering for Dalgo, a data platform used by 25+ nonprofits directly
  • Advise nonprofits as fractional CTO on tech capacity, data practice, and AI adoption
  • Sit on SVP Bengaluru's Grants Review Committee, applying engineering rigor to capital deployment

Partner, SVP India — Bangalore Chapter

Jul 2024 — Present

Social Venture Partners · Bengaluru

  • Hands-on engagement with NGOs across India's development sector
  • Bring technology expertise to evaluating and deploying philanthropic capital

Head of Engineering — Statuspage

Apr 2019 — Jul 2024

Atlassian · Bengaluru

  • Grew with the Bengaluru site from ~100 to 2000+ people
  • Managed a 50+ person org across Jira, Jira Service Management, and Opsgenie
  • Led Statuspage end-to-end for dev and SRE teams, focused on scale and revenue
  • Led ShipIt and championed the Innovation program for 500+ engineers

Staff Software Engineer / Team Lead

2010 — 2019

Intuit · Bengaluru

  • Nine years on mobile TurboTax (Android)
  • Built and launched TaxOKPlease, an internal startup tax-filing product for India
  • Promoted to Staff Engineer; moved into leading a high-performing team

Lead Engineer

2007 — 2010

Samsung R&D · Bengaluru

  • Built smart remotes for air conditioners
  • Core team member launching the original Galaxy device (June 2009)

Software Engineer

2005 — 2007

Tavant Technologies · Bengaluru

  • Built REO systems for the sub-prime mortgage industry
  • Sharpened backend skills across feature development and innovation

Software Engineer

2004 — 2005

Openstream Technologies · Bengaluru

  • First job, at a multi-modal communication startup
  • Built a portal for Piramal Pharma using Java, Struts, and J2EE

Education

ILSS Leadership Program

India Leaders for Social Sector (ILSS) · Cohort 22

2025

MS, Software Systems

BITS Pilani · Pilani, Rajasthan

2009 — 2012

BE, Computer Science

VTU, Karnataka · Bengaluru

2000 — 2004

Skills & Languages

Entrepreneurial Mindset · Early Career Mentoring · Teamwork & Collaboration · Leadership and Coaching

English (Proficient) · Hindi (Proficient) · Kannada (Native)