Lokesh Mogali

Software Engineer With 3.5 years of professional software development experience across fast-paced startup and enterprise environments, I have shipped scalable edtech platforms, live one-on-one multiplayer systems, and secure enterprise products, alongside building custom ML models and AI-driven business solutions. Scholastic achievements include CAT 99.4%ile (2022), CodeKaze AIR 77 (2023), and JEE Advanced AIR 5001 (2017).

Founding Engineer, FullStack at Maidaan (2023-10 – 2025-06)

• Directed technical strategy and authored the engineering roadmap, managing a lean team to scale the core platform for thousands of concurrent users.
• Overhauled the core product from a single-format MCQ tournament into an extensible plugin engine. Built an async tournament system powering 10+ game formats and optimized the client-server pipeline (batch fetching, caching, asset pre-rendering) for low-latency UI transitions.
• Architected a real-time 1v1 Live Gaming Arena using Firebase and Node.js. Engineered custom matchmaking, online presence tracking, and stateful disconnect fallbacks for 12+ titles, driving a marked lift in D7/D30 retention.
• Rebuilt the web app end-to-end (frontend, data models, APIs, backend), cutting Time to Interactive (TTI) by 80% and accelerating the feature development lifecycle.
• Built a tournament lifecycle dashboard with automated report cards, WhatsApp nudges, and Discord commentary (Cloud Functions, headless Chromium, Gemini AI), taking ops from a 3 person per tournament job to 1 person running 15–20.
• Replaced manual deploys with CI/CD on Cloud Build, releasing to autoscaled Cloud Run/App Engine on merge, and moved recurring jobs to cron-triggered Cloud Functions.

Software Developer 1 at Progress Software (2021-10 – 2023-05)

• Implemented OpenEdge's Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) feature, enforcing role-based mask policies (partial, full, custom, null) at the database layer across ABL,.NET, Java, and SQL clients with zero application-side code changes.
• Mitigated a CWE-114 (Process Control) vulnerability by implementing ESAM's (External Security Administration Manager) execution-path verification mechanism, restricting OpenEdge to executing code only from approved, trusted locations.
• Secured first place in a company-wide hackathon with an AI-driven POC that auto-summarizes meetings, extracts action items, and generates milestone timelines.

Machine Learning Intern at Kizora Software Pvt. Ltd. (2021-01 – 2021-06)

• Built an ML pipeline to automate manual data entry – an image-processing stage to normalize/extract checkboxes across varied templates and scanning conditions, feeding a custom CNN trained on 5,000+ images for checkbox-state classification.
• Deployed the model via a Django web app for real-time document processing.

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering – Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (BITS PILANI) (2017-08 – 2021-05)