Pradeep Kaushik
Engineering Leader | Social Sector | Fractional CTO | Mentor
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)