Kaushik Kumar Mahato

Ex-Founder | Researcher | Strategist | Architect

Driving Innovation from Zero to One • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Summary

Seasoned technology leader with 10+ years of experience building scalable systems, cloud infrastructure, recommendation engines, automation, public APIs, and apps across Social Media, Gaming, Ad Tech, and Payments. I have led key projects at VerSe (Josh), GolBol, Visa, and Arcplay.ai, with a strong expertise in taking products from Zero to One.

With a background in optimizing large-scale systems and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur, I excel in dynamic environments, delivering innovative solutions to complex technical challenges.

Details

Email: kikmak42@null.net

Social: linkedin.com/in/kaushikmahato

GitHub: github.com/kikmak42

Previous Website: cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~kkmahato

Top Skills

Executive Leadership AI Engineering Product Engineering Data Engineering Innovation & Design Thinking Product Design

Experience

WEX

Senior Staff (Research & Innovation)

May 2025 – Present

  • Focusing on the Research & Innovation team, responsible for driving strategic technical vision.
  • Exploring emerging technologies and developing next-generation payment, benefits, and B2C products.

Arcplay.ai

Technology Consultant (Director of Engineering)

Mar 2024 – Apr 2025

  • Leading strategic technology decisions, designing scalable architecture, and spearheading pilot implementations with a lean team of frontend, backend, and mobile developers.
  • Pioneered and deployed AI-based reward generation systems to optimize user engagement, ensuring seamless integration via both client SDKs and a no-code configuration layer.

Gaming StartUp (NoLagZone)

Co-Founder - NoLagZone

Mar 2023 – Mar 2024 (1 year 1 month)

  • Founded a new self-managed gaming service, delivering the ultimate Co-Op Gaming Experience.

VerSe Innovation (Josh)

Architect (Feed & Recommendation Systems)

Aug 2021 – Jan 2023 (1 year 6 months)

  • Directed the development of a Video Intelligence platform using CNN/RNN deep learning models for automated and scalable tagging of User-Generated Content (UGC).
  • Designed and built infrastructure for the feed, including high-performing recommendation models and data pipelines for user data across millions of Bharat users.

GolBol

Co-Founder & CTO (VC-Backed, Exited)

Jul 2019 – Jul 2021 (2 years 1 month) | Mumbai Area, India

  • Designed and built a VC-backed social media app, scaling it to millions of users with zero downtime.
  • The company was successfully acquired by the DailyHunt Group.

Visa

(Total 4 years 4 months: August 2015 – November 2019)

Staff Software Engineer

July 2019 - November 2019 (5 months) | Bengaluru Area, India

Conceptualized, Designed and Implemented an end-to-end automation pipeline for Client Library and sample code generation in 6 different languages automatically from the Swagger based API Specifications.

Senior Software Engineer

November 2016 – June 2019 (2 years 8 months)

Worked on multiple end-to-end API developments in C#, Java backed by SQL & Oracle DB.

Software Engineer

August 2015 – October 2016 (1 year 3 months)

Developed APIs for managing payment instruments, subscriptions, cataloging, and transactions reporting.

GE

Intern

May 2013 – July 2013 (3 months)

Intern project focused on Image Processing and 3D Image Visualization.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering

Patents

1. System and Computer Implemented Method for Generating and Transmitting Tokenized Card Information

GRANTED US11210666 (PDF Link)

2. System, Method, and Apparatus for Processing Biometric Inputs

GRANTED US11481776 (PDF Link)

3. System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Updating Payment Device Transaction Tokens (New Token Update)

GRANTED US11869000 (PDF Link)

4. System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Updating and Processing Payment Device Transaction Tokens

APPLICATION US20220374899A1 (PDF Link)

5. System and Computer-Implemented Method for Fulfilling an Order Request

APPLICATION US20230035465A1 (PDF Link)