Currently @ Kore.ai · Engineering Lead

Upendher
Musham

I turn messy problems into systems that scale, teams that ship, and ideas that survive contact with production. 8+ years of building things that actually work — and occasionally break in interesting ways.

Engineering Product Ownership Team Management Entrepreneurship Certified Scrum Master
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Who I Am

Engineer.
Builder.
Professional Overthinker.

I'm Upendher Musham — Engineering Lead at Kore.ai, where I help turn ambitious AI ideas into systems that don't fall over at 2 AM. I've spent 8+ years at the intersection of solid engineering and "wait, what if we just shipped it?"

From processing ₹150 crore/month in payments to co-founding a startup, I bring a full-stack perspective — not just in tech, but in business impact. The best engineers understand the why, not just the how. (The worst ones understand neither and blame the cache.)

When I'm not architecting microservices or growing teams, I'm reading, travelling, or hunting for the next problem worth solving. Certified Scrum Master. Google Hackathon winner 2019. Still undefeated against poorly written Jira tickets.

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I don't just write code — I build products, grow teams, and fix problems that refuse to stay fixed.
The best engineers know the why. The great ones also know when to stop refactoring and ship.
Career

Experience

A track record of leading teams, shipping under pressure, and making scale someone else's problem.

June 2024 — Present
Technical Lead
Kore.ai
  • Leading engineering team for AI-powered conversational solutions — making agents that don't embarrass us.
  • Driving architecture decisions and cross-functional collaboration across teams that actually talk to each other.
June 2024 — Present
Technical Specialist
Cognida.ai
  • Tore apart a monolith and rebuilt 3 core components as microservices. Scalability went up; everyone's blood pressure went down.
  • Led a team of 5 shipping high-performance solutions on aggressive timelines.
  • Contributed to an AdTech platform — better targeting, faster pipelines, fewer "why is this slow?" Slack threads.
January 2021 — June 2024
Engineering Lead
CAW Studios · Hyderabad
  • Built Cashflo 2.0's entire back-end infrastructure from scratch — zero to crores, no drama.
  • Processed an average ₹150 crore/month in payment transactions. (Yes, we triple-checked the decimal places.)
  • Grew and led a team of 30+ engineers across frontend and backend.
  • Integrated PayU & Cashfree payment gateways without losing sleep. Much.
  • Built a dynamic HTML template manager — because nobody should hand-craft emails in 2024.
June 2018 — December 2020
Co-founder & Director
Reevona Pvt Ltd · Hyderabad
  • Co-founded and led a startup from scratch, building India's first real-time interior designer marketplace platform.
  • Designed a data-driven feedback loop that made the product noticeably stickier.
  • Built bidding & conversation algorithms and real-time chat systems.
  • Implemented video call software for live vendor-customer interactions.
May 2017 — May 2018
Software Developer
iB Hubs · Hyderabad
  • Worked with technical team and implemented many SEO strategies to improve the website's visibility and traffic.
  • Involved in cross team collaboration and marketing initatives to improve organization's visibility and brand awareness.
Technical

Skills

Depth across the full stack — from infra to UI, with opinions on all of it.

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Leadership
Scrum Master Team Management Product Thinking Mentorship
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Backend
NodeJS Express NestJS PHP / Laravel Python WebSockets
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Cloud & DevOps
AWS EC2 AWS Lambda SNS / SQS S3 Docker Kubernetes API Gateway
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Databases
MySQL PostgreSQL DynamoDB Redis
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Architecture
Microservices Kafka REST APIs Event-Driven
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Frontend
React Bootstrap CSS jQuery
Right Now

What I'm Focusing On

Past projects taught me how to ship. These are what I'm building next.

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Live

Pawgram

A social network built for pet owners — because your dog's personality deserves more than a single Instagram story. Share moments, connect with fellow pet parents, and build a community around the creatures that actually run the household.

Social Platform Pet Tech Community
Visit pawgram.pet →
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Stealth Mode

Autonomous Voice Agents

Building voice agents that handle real conversations without sounding like they're reading a FAQ page. Think less "press 1 for support," more "I already handled it while you were on mute."

Voice AI Autonomous Agents Conversational AI

Updates coming soon. The agents are busy rehearsing.

Get In Touch

Let's Build
Something Great

Startup idea or just a good conversation — my inbox and WhatsApp are open.

mushamupendher@gmail.com