hey, i am kush

i love building things that don't waste our time but rather give it back to us so that maybe we can build nuclear cells to solve the energy crisis?

for around three years, i've been deeply involved in early-stage startups, developing products from the ground up. my journey spans from building digital twins for constellations of satellites to building a co-pilot for your professional life and a few interesting things in between. each project is a step toward building technology that brings humans closer, not further apart.

i am @notthatkush on twitter and @kushthakker on linkedIn. i couldn't get the same name everywhere, but that's okay!

i'm building "co-pilot for professional life" at brace.so when i am not heading product at tenderfix ai, a german b2b procurement saas startup.

things i worked on

  • brace: building co-pilot for professional life (founder)
    • conducted 80+ customer interviews to validate product-market fit
    • built prototype with social integrations reaching 44 beta users
    • developed natural language search called "global search" to surface relevant connections
    • created smart relationship manager with interaction tracking and recommendations
    • built ai agents considering social dynamics like power dynamics, human psychology, and other social aspects for better outreach
  • tenderfix: head of product at b2b saas for procurement industry
    • leading product team to change decades-old stiff procurement industry with some new paradigms
    • built proprietary ingestion, recommendation and delivery pipeline to automate procurement process
    • piloting the tech with one of the largest German safety enterprises processing 90000+ tenders a year
    • shipped a product which reduced average tender processing time from 35 minutes to 3 minutes as well as collected constant feedback to improve the relevance of recommendations
    • built internal tools like Vulcan (test bench, which 3x'd the speed for us to push things to prod and deliver to end user) and Vision (internal insights dashboard) to support product development so there is equal data backing with intuition
  • galaxeye space: head of product operations for multi-sensor satellite startup
    • built event-driven infrastructure handling terabytes of data from ground stations
    • developed lora-based drone telemetry system for real-time data visualization
    • created galaxeye blue, leveraging satellite imagery and computer vision for aquaculture industry
    • developed digital twin for satellite constellation, automating orbit strategy prediction
    • built console using open-source satellite imagery for location-based insights

passions and interests

  • human-computer interaction (hci)
  • ideating on "prame design": combining product design and game design
  • reading (currently reading Our Mathematical Universe, previously read CAPS LOCK)
  • listening to podcasts (favorites: acquired, startalk, managing madrid)
  • video games and football
  • someone who enjoys talking to new people and know thier stories

my blog

welcome to my digital garden. here, i share my thoughts on technology, startups, and personal growth.