About

Hello — I’m Kushpal.

I grew up in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, studied computer science at Tezpur University in Assam, and then spent two years at IIT Gandhinagar for my M.Tech. I now live and work in Bangalore.

Most of my research life was spent asking whether a neural network can see something in a medical image before a person can. My thesis went after early-stage Alzheimer’s in MR scans and was published at Brain Informatics 2021; in 2020 a related approach turned into a public tool for screening chest X-rays for COVID-19, which the Indian Institute of Public Health tested and national outlets wrote about.

Since then the work has been backend and infrastructure: five years of REST and GraphQL APIs, microservices on GCP and AWS, and CI/CD pipelines — first rebuilding a school ERP platform that processes over 100K payments a month, now on a trend-intelligence platform that turns raw social data into something clients can act on. The thread through both halves is the same: take something that works in a notebook and make it hold up in production.

Experience

  1. Software Engineer

    Liftoff Software Pvt. Ltd Bangalore, India Aug 2024 – Present

    • Designed and deployed scalable GraphQL APIs and microservices with FastAPI and Python.
    • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, improving deployment efficiency by 30%.
    • Integrated Cloud Run for deploying containerised applications on GCP.
    • Applied advanced web scraping and data processing to optimise data pipelines.

  2. Software Developer

    K12 Techno Services Pvt. Ltd Bangalore, India Sep 2020 – Jul 2024

    • Spearheaded the revamp of a core ERP platform, increasing overall system efficiency by 18%.
    • Worked in a team of eight engineers on 2–3 week Agile sprints.
    • Developed and maintained secure REST APIs, improving backend performance by 15%.
    • Built ERP features in Python, Django and React.js behind an API gateway — turning problem statements into working logic, tracking down bugs and shaping system design.
    • Improved onboarding documentation and testing processes, raising confidence in feature delivery.

  3. Graduate Teaching Assistant

    IIT Gandhinagar Gandhinagar, India 2018 – 2020

    • Lead TA for Advanced Numerical Methods in Engineering with Prof. Mohan Joshi — ran lab sessions, tutorials and MATLAB Cody coursework.
    • TA for the Python course with Prof. Krishna Prasad Miyapuram.
    • Helped run the IITGN Foundation Programme 2019 alongside visiting faculty.

  4. Intern — Alumni Portal

    Tezpur University Assam, India Jun – Jul 2015

    • Built web applications for the university on a MySQL backend.

Education

  1. M.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

    IIT Gandhinagar Jul 2018 – Jul 2020 CGPA 7.43

    • Coursework in advanced algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning and nature-inspired computing.
    • Thesis on early detection of Alzheimer’s disease from MR images using deep learning, published at Brain Informatics 2021.

  2. B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

    Tezpur University Jul 2013 – Jul 2017 CGPA 7.57

  3. Microsoft Certified — Exam 98-381

    Introduction to Programming using Python Jul – Sep 2020

Skills

Languages
Python · Node.js · JavaScript · React.js · Bash · PHP · C
Frameworks
Django · Django REST Framework · FastAPI · Flask · GraphQL · Pytest
Cloud
GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage) · AWS (Lambda) · Docker
Databases
PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redshift · MySQL
Tooling
GitHub Actions · Jenkins · Grafana · Apify · Postman · Swagger · Git
ML & data
TensorFlow · convolutional neural networks · classical ML from scratch
Spoken
Hindi (native) · English (professional)

Achievements