Headline

Valar Ecom | Full Stack Developer

About

I’m Khushal Kapse — a software engineer who likes building things that work in real life. Currently, I’m working at Velvee (startup) as an Associate Software Engineer / Full Stack Developer. I didn’t start with a perfect plan. I started by building small projects, breaking them, fixing them, and learning step by step. Over time, I got really interested in solving problems with code and making products better. During my BE in Information Technology (SPPU), I focused on strong basics and daily practice. I’ve solved 750+ coding problems to improve my problem-solving speed and thinking clarity. I also enjoy building complete products. In my internship at Businexperts, I worked on a hospital web app using Flutter + Firebase and learned how UI and performance improvements can make a big difference for users. Some projects I’m proud of: * MilkEase — a mobile app to simplify milk distribution with customer management, billing, and analytics. * AutoMonitor — a real-time vehicle monitoring system using YOLOv8 + EasyOCR. This work became an IEEE paper and also received sponsorship. What I care about: clean code, reliable systems, and building products that are easy to use and easy to maintain. Always happy to connect with people working on interesting problems.

Location

Pune City

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

cursor

elevenlabs

gemini

grok

lovable

mcp

openai

Work experience

Full Stack Engineer at Valar Ecom, Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos, Pune City, Maharashtra, India

Associate Software Engineer at Velvee, Jul 2025 - Mar 2026 · 9 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 1. Data Engineering: Reduced Instagram content ingestion time by 99% (from 24h to 10m) by architecting a serverless pipeline using AWS Lambda, SQS, and DynamoDB. 2. Search Optimization: Enabled sub-second search across 100,000+ documents by implementing Elasticsearch with real-time sync via DynamoDB Streams. 3. Frontend Performance: Slashed page load times from 5s to 2s and reduced data payloads by 96% (1MB to 40KB) through TanStack Query caching and chunked data loading. 4. Product Development: Built and deployed 10+ live pages for an influencer-facing dashboard using Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. 5. Media Processing: Engineered an automated FFmpeg workflow to generate and deliver video thumbnails via CDN in under 450ms post-webhook. 6. System Architecture: Integrated Instagram Graph API to handle automated ingestion of posts, reels, and stories with robust error handling. 7. State Management: Implemented Zustand for efficient global state management, replacing heavier alternatives to maintain a lightweight frontend architecture.

Web Application Developer at Businexperts, Jan 2024 - Feb 2024 · 2 mos, Remote

Technical Researcher at KUTUMB INDIA, Aug 2023 - Oct 2023 · 3 mos, Remote

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Savitribai Phule Pune University

Public links

github: https://github.com/khushalkapse282237

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/khushalkapse282237