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Tushar M.

SDE @ Flexport | Prev: Mercari, TurboML, Fampay | OSS: Joomla! | AI Agents, Distributed Systems

Bengaluru

3+ years of work experience

Flexport
May 20264 mosPresent

Bengaluru

FinOps.
Google Summer of Code
20224 yrs 8 mosPresent

Formerly a contributor responsible for the Joomla! Task Scheduler, I have taken a mentoring role in recent years for a number of projects – Schema.org (2022), the AI Foundations Framework (2025), and most recently Automated Workflows (2026).
TurboML
Jul 20241 yr 11 mosMay 2026

Bengaluru

Backend systems, AI agents, reliability, observability. Had a fantastic run building first the TurboML platform (C++/Python/Kafka/Iceberg/RisingWave/Flink) as an early engineer and later the Puch AI product (Python/Redis/Self-managed AI infra) as a founding engineer, scaling the latter from zero to hundreds of thousands of users over an year.
Mercari, Inc.
Mar 20243 mosMay 2024

Minato, Tokyo, Japan

As a part of the Search & Discovery camp at Mercari – Japan's first unicorn and largest C2C marketplace, I undertook tasks around developer experience and took over a major project in developing and integrating a search encoding system to alleviate issues with URL length limitations in browsers and mobile devices. As a part of the encoding system, I developed an algorithm to compress protobuf payloads into short identifiers while balancing potential infrastructure costs by using a conditional hashing strategy, integrated several dependent systems to take advantage of this new system and unblocked a number of future projects and experiments.
TurboML
Aug 20237 mosFeb 2024

Remote

At TurboML, I spent a fantastic 7 months helping build out foundational infrastructure for a very early-stage and ambitious platform for the lifecycle of real-time machine learning pipelines. I got to work on problems and influence the experience and decisions of my small yet brilliant team at a great many turns. I largely owned the developer and build infrastructure for our C++ and Python monorepo for my time there, being responsible for overhauling them with the introduction of Nix flakes and the Meson build system for taming the complexities of reproducibility and reliability across developer and production environments. Besides developer infrastructure, I also lead the initiative in writing a Rust port for a subset of our infrastructure components and experimented with Rust/Python interop for low-latency streaming ML applications. Though this initiative did not line up with immediate priorities, it gave us ideas for improvements in our C++ code-base and kept doors to a future migration open. I was also responsible for refining and formalizing processes for benchmark-guided optimizations for hand-rolled implementations of online ML algorithms, and scaffolding a benchmarking and testing framework for core components of our infra among other things. P.S. If you think you're a good fit, hit me up and I might be able to get you in touch with the founders if interests align.
GitHub
@ditsuke

Tushar’s AI Stack

claude code
claude code
codex
codex
opencode
opencode

Education

amity University

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

amity University

20204 yrs2024

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Headline

SDE @ Flexport | Prev: Mercari, TurboML, Fampay | OSS: Joomla! | AI Agents, Distributed Systems

About

Polyglot programmer with 3+ years of production experience in Python, Go, Rust, C++ and Typescript. Areas of interest and experience: Infrastructure, AI Agents, Databases, Distributed Systems. As of August 2026 I'm actively looking for a new role with a backend, infra or systems orientation. Email: linkedin{at}ditsuke{dot}com

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

opencode

Work experience

Software Engineer at Flexport, May 2026 - Present · 4 mos, Bengaluru, FinOps.

Mentor at Google Summer of Code, 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos, Formerly a contributor responsible for the Joomla! Task Scheduler, I have taken a mentoring role in recent years for a number of projects – Schema.org (2022), the AI Foundations Framework (2025), and most recently Automated Workflows (2026).

Software Engineer at TurboML, Jul 2024 - May 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Backend systems, AI agents, reliability, observability. Had a fantastic run building first the TurboML platform (C++/Python/Kafka/Iceberg/RisingWave/Flink) as an early engineer and later the Puch AI product (Python/Redis/Self-managed AI infra) as a founding engineer, scaling the latter from zero to hundreds of thousands of users over an year.

Software Engineer at Mercari, Inc., Mar 2024 - May 2024 · 3 mos, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, As a part of the Search & Discovery camp at Mercari – Japan's first unicorn and largest C2C marketplace, I undertook tasks around developer experience and took over a major project in developing and integrating a search encoding system to alleviate issues with URL length limitations in browsers and mobile devices. As a part of the encoding system, I developed an algorithm to compress protobuf payloads into short identifiers while balancing potential infrastructure costs by using a conditional hashing strategy, integrated several dependent systems to take advantage of this new system and unblocked a number of future projects and experiments.

Software Engineer at TurboML, Aug 2023 - Feb 2024 · 7 mos, Remote, At TurboML, I spent a fantastic 7 months helping build out foundational infrastructure for a very early-stage and ambitious platform for the lifecycle of real-time machine learning pipelines. I got to work on problems and influence the experience and decisions of my small yet brilliant team at a great many turns. I largely owned the developer and build infrastructure for our C++ and Python monorepo for my time there, being responsible for overhauling them with the introduction of Nix flakes and the Meson build system for taming the complexities of reproducibility and reliability across developer and production environments. Besides developer infrastructure, I also lead the initiative in writing a Rust port for a subset of our infrastructure components and experimented with Rust/Python interop for low-latency streaming ML applications. Though this initiative did not line up with immediate priorities, it gave us ideas for improvements in our C++ code-base and kept doors to a future migration open. I was also responsible for refining and formalizing processes for benchmark-guided optimizations for hand-rolled implementations of online ML algorithms, and scaffolding a benchmarking and testing framework for core components of our infra among other things. P.S. If you think you're a good fit, hit me up and I might be able to get you in touch with the founders if interests align.

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, amity University

Public links

github: https://github.com/ditsuke

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