# Koosh Saxena > Developer / Investor Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/koosh ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Instacart Jan 2023 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Instacart Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 ### Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Tatari Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California Lead member of early engineering team at Tatari, a data-driven engineering company that has turned TV advertising into a digital-like experience: measured, transparent, near real-time, and low-spend. Range of meaningful contributions: - FE dashboard (Node, React, d3, GraphQL, Typescript, Javascript) - BE infrastructure (Python, Postgres, SQLAlchemy, GraphQL) - Pixel work and custom tracking libraries (Javascript, Cloudfront, S3) - AWS infrastructure (Lambda, Redshift, Kinesis, S3, Cloudfront, Api Gateway, etc) - Monitoring, alerting and metrics collection (Datadog, Papertail, Slack) - Third party data ingestion and integrations (Google Analytics, Appsflyer) - Continuous integration and dev ops (Heroku, Kubernetes) - Design and editing work (Sketch, Photoshop, Premiere Pro) - Leading new initiatives to measure linear, streaming and programmatic tv ad buys ### Partner @ Lone Wolf Partners Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | www.lonewolf.vc An angel syndicate which sources deals to a select group of investors. Portfolio / Early Investment Highlights: -Slack (www.slack.com) -Lyft (www.lyft.com) -Captiv8 (www.captiv8.io) -Tatari (www.tatari.tv) -Tropic Biosciences (www.tropicbioscience.com) -RoboSig (www.robosig.com) -Pranalytica (www.pranalytica.com) -Impossible Foods (https://impossiblefoods.com) ### Member Of Technical Staff @ ColorTokens, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead member of core engineering team. Helped grow the team from 3 engineers to over 100. Architected and developed features for beta and V1 cloud security products. Contributed as full-stack engineer. ### Co-founder and CTO @ Tip'd Off Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA TipdOff is a financial social network that connected individual investors and enabled real-time access to stock tips, trades and advice from trusted friends and proven experts. TipdOff was acquired in early 2015. • Formulated idea, business model, product vision and company inception. • Responsible for overall architecture and development of the platform. • Developed full stack of web platform for minimum viable product, integrating stock market data, brokerage aggregation, and social network APIs on AWS Cloud instances. • Developed prototype iOS app to mimic website functionality. • Managed and delegated engineering team to meet aggressive deadlines. • Rigorously analyzed acquisition, retention, and engagement metrics. • Managed PR and marketing teams, with coverage secured in the San Jose Mercury News, Wired, Huffington Post and The Street. • Led investor pitches and was instrumental in closing a seed round of $1.35M from extremely notable Silicon Valley angel investors. • Ensured SEC compliance and helped developed a successful Advisory Board. • Secured partnerships with major Fortune 500 companies and maintained relationships with clients • Generated a waitlist of 5k+ and oversaw a public launch in 2015. "TipdOff Taps Bill Crane as Acting Vice President of Engineering"​ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tipdoff-taps-bill-crane-acting-124700826.html "TipdOff Raises Over One Million in Seed Financing, Appoints Industry Experts to Advisory Board"​ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tipdoff-raises-over-one-million-124700410.html "Millennials use tech tools to jump into investing"​ http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27297064/millennials-use-tech-tools-jump-into-investing "10 Great Investing Sites and Apps for Millennials"​ http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/mutual-funds/articles/2015/04/29/10-great-investing-sites-and-apps-for-millennials Put the landing page back up here for nostalgia: https://tipdoff.herokuapp.com/ ### Software / Electrical Engineer @ Lockheed Martin Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA Held a Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance and did classified development work for multiple programs. • Coded Perl scripts to poll data via SNMP from various network devices (Juniper / Cisco) in a Wide Area Network. Used Splunk to analyze and correlate data from the scripts and provide real-time statistics about the user and provider edge. • Designed front-end JavaScript (D3.js) UI elements for networks. • Enhanced C/C++ multithreaded network applications in accordance with various protocols (TCP, UDP, FTP, NORM) on embedded Linux hardware. Coded C++ device simulators and multithreaded controllers to provide local control and status to a C# GUI. ### Co-founder @ Intreeka Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 • Responsible for designing and building Intreeka’s platform. • Handled business aspects of Intreeka including marketing, pitches, and strategic planning. ### Software / Electrical Engineer @ Lockheed Martin Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 College intern ### Software Engineer @ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Menlo Park, CA High school intern / programmer. ## Education ### Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Southern California ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science University of Southern California ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kooshsaxena - Portfolio: http://www.kooshsaxena.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/koosh JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/koosh/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12