# Kaustubh Garimella

> Engineering Leader and Founder

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kaustubh

Staff Engineer at Genius Sports. Previously founded Theia Studios and DraftBuff, Software Engineer at Pixvana/Microsoft. Experienced engineer and product leader who has shipped multiple games, apps and systems across a myriad of platforms: web, mobile, desktop and VR. 

Graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Experience working in Game Development, Data Streaming, Web Development, Cloud Services, Virtual Reality.

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Genius Sports
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Led enterprise-wide transformation by architecting the migration from batch processing to a modern streaming architecture. Was the primary author of core frameworks for using Apache Flink and Apache Pulsar that were adopted across the company.

Established technical standards and best practices while driving adoption across multiple business divisions. Cultivated engineering excellence through weekly code katas and technical mentorship.

Successfully delivered multiple high-impact projects leveraging low latency data streaming from venue to customer, enabling powering live sports data products.

### Co-Founder & CTO @ Theia Studios
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Theia Studios is a new game studio aiming to create innovative, strategic character driven RPGs. Our first game, Icons of Theia, is a tactical mobile RPG currently in soft launch and slated for global release in mid 2024.

We raised 2.4M in early 2022, and have a small but passionate team of 10 people across engineering, art, design and audio.

### Co-Founder & Head of Product @ DraftBuff
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
DraftBuff is a fantasy esports platform where users compete in fantasy tournaments and leagues, check the latest news/scores, and chat with their friends

Over 150,000 players across the world and a 4.7 average rating across both iOS and Android

### Virtual Reality Software Engineer @ Pixvana, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area
Architected and developed cloud based video rendering engine to process large VR videos in parallel, scheduling tasks in order to coordinate dependencies and allocate resources effectively. The result was an exponential reduction in the amount of time it took to create and publish gigabytes of data

Worked extensively on a VR client application in Unity to enable users to watch 360 degree videos, and interact with elements in the scene

Worked on React web application that allowed users to edit and organize VR video content, including real time communication using web sockets

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Redmond, WA
Scaled Bing Rewards data platform, going from 3M to 30M users with 30% more processing efficiency 

Contributed to entire new UX layer for transition from Bing to Microsoft domains 

Helped make reconciliation systems to identify and reprocess real time events that weren't handled successfully, helping systems recover from 99.2% availability to 99.99% 

Designed and implemented new UX flow to allow users to view their purchase history and decrease customer support escalations by 40%

### Software Development Intern @ Epic
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Developed Web application using .NET framework to use Statistic Process Control on Healthcare Metrics. Handled large data sets and modeling in order to find significant trends, shifts and outliers.

### Summer Intern @ MITRE
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bedford, MA
Developed HTML5 Canvas Timeline application with an open API that allows developers to plot events, milestones and adjust the view on the fly. Supports custom context menu actions and drag and drop interaction


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Northwestern University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Political Science and International Relations
UCL
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kaustubhgarimella

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Last updated: 2026-03-22