I build efficient, scalable backend systems and production-grade AI agents. I focus on performance, reliability, and developer experience.
- Impact-driven: Optimized critical APIs up to 73% faster and improved system reliability.
- Systems thinking: Modularized scheduling flows, cutting wait times by 45% and reducing cross-module bugs.
- Leadership: Leading a 5-member engineering team; in 2025, shipped multiple company-critical projects, including one of the company's biggest launches.
- High-leverage outcomes: Automated payouts/scheduling saving 260+ person-hours/month and increased recruiter feature adoption by 60%.
- Developer velocity: Built dynamic email templating to ship features 30× faster.
- End-to-end delivery: Delivered features across backend APIs and UI when needed to unblock timelines.
- Mentorship: Onboarded and mentored engineers to raise team productivity.
- Resolved 800+ P0/P1 issues and shipped critical features stabilizing recruiter workflows.
- Decoupled booking modules; reduced bugs and eased future development.
- Built dynamic, on-the-fly email templates to accelerate rollouts from ~30 hours to ~1 hour.
- Improved attendance with real-time tracking and automated reminders.
- Kudos Award — Recognized at Instahyre for consistent delivery and quality.
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner — Early Adopter (2024–2027)
- Relevel Achiever (2022)
- NPTEL: Programming in Java (Gold), Problem Solving Through C (Silver)
- Open to roles: Backend Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and Agentic AI roles.
- Interested in high-impact backend systems, scalable APIs, and intelligent agent platforms.
- Email: contact@kaushikpaul.co.in
- Website: https://www.kaushikpaul.co.in/
- Projects: https://projects.kaushikpaul.co.in/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaushik-paul-767590215
- GitHub: https://github.com/Kaushik-Paul
If you'd like a quick walkthrough of any project, open an issue or reach out on LinkedIn.