I'm a hands-on software engineer and founder with a passion for building scalable front-end and back-end systems. I thrive on shipping fintech and AI-powered products that deliver real value quickly. Since May 2024, I've led Alphapro.ai as Founding Full-Stack Developer, owning the full frontend lifecycle with Next.js, React, and TypeScript, and architecting backend services using Node.js, Prisma, Redis, and PostgreSQL. I enjoy turning complex data into user-friendly dashboards and optimizing data pipelines to cut runtimes and improve decision-making. Before that, I worked at Amazon as an L4 Software Engineer, helping improve the search experience, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and delivering customer-focused features. I also pursued independent investing, built community features at Drafted during my co-op, and contributed to multiple startup projects, always aiming to blend software engineering with data-driven insights.

Venkatesh Koka

I'm a hands-on software engineer and founder with a passion for building scalable front-end and back-end systems. I thrive on shipping fintech and AI-powered products that deliver real value quickly. Since May 2024, I've led Alphapro.ai as Founding Full-Stack Developer, owning the full frontend lifecycle with Next.js, React, and TypeScript, and architecting backend services using Node.js, Prisma, Redis, and PostgreSQL. I enjoy turning complex data into user-friendly dashboards and optimizing data pipelines to cut runtimes and improve decision-making. Before that, I worked at Amazon as an L4 Software Engineer, helping improve the search experience, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and delivering customer-focused features. I also pursued independent investing, built community features at Drafted during my co-op, and contributed to multiple startup projects, always aiming to blend software engineering with data-driven insights.

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I’m a hands-on software engineer and founder with a passion for building scalable front-end and back-end systems. I thrive on shipping fintech and AI-powered products that deliver real value quickly. Since May 2024, I’ve led Alphapro.ai as Founding Full-Stack Developer, owning the full frontend lifecycle with Next.js, React, and TypeScript, and architecting backend services using Node.js, Prisma, Redis, and PostgreSQL. I enjoy turning complex data into user-friendly dashboards and optimizing data pipelines to cut runtimes and improve decision-making.

Before that, I worked at Amazon as an L4 Software Engineer, helping improve the search experience, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and delivering customer-focused features. I also pursued independent investing, built community features at Drafted during my co-op, and contributed to multiple startup projects, always aiming to blend software engineering with data-driven insights.

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Work Experience

Founding Full-Stack Developer at Alphapro.ai
May 1, 2024 - Present
Own the complete front-end development lifecycle using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and design tooling; build and maintain back-end services using Node.js, Prisma, Redis, and PostgreSQL; architect ML-enabled features including real-time sentiment analysis of earnings calls; optimize data pipelines and reduce runtimes; lead a two-person engineering team and drive end-to-end product delivery.
Independent – Stock Trading & Investing at Self-employed
August 1, 2021 - April 1, 2024
Traded and invested personal capital across Indian and US equity markets; built hands-on domain expertise in technical analysis, sector rotation, and risk management; leveraged data-driven research to inform trading decisions and study ML-driven insights.
Software Engineer (L4) at Amazon.com Services, Inc
August 1, 2019 - June 1, 2021
Worked on the Amazon Fresh search page to improve customer experience around search results; developed and debugged features, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship customer-focused improvements.
Software Engineer at Infosys Ltd
June 1, 2014 - November 1, 2015
Delivered software solutions and backend services; contributed to frontend/backend development across project teams.
Software Engineer Co-op at Drafted – Cambridge, MA
May 1, 2018 - December 1, 2018
Built new community feature pages and reusable React components for the product; prototyped frontend features using React/JSS and MobX; contributed to product marketing tooling.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science at Northeastern University, Boston, MA
January 1, 2017 - April 1, 2019
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communications at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, India
June 1, 2010 - May 1, 2014

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services
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