I build AI products and the systems that make them scale.
I’m Kushal Patankar, a founding engineer working across applied AI engineering, scalable AI infrastructure, and distributed systems. I turn AI capabilities into reliable products and build local-first personal software outside of work. Currently building tools for local businesses at Zoca.
Personal software
All projects →Local-first personal software and independent experiments I design and build outside of work.
Selected work
3 projectsZocaProduct engineering at Zoca: the Front Desk voice agent, content and website systems, AWS infrastructure, and developer experience.BrihaspatiLLM application development at Brihaspati: personalized content, memory retrieval, and a Django backend handling 100K+ daily requests.DübverseBuilt AI application infrastructure for Dubverse, with Celery and Redis media processing across 600K+ hours of content and 1M+ users.
Latest writing
AI Coding and Django Permissions: A Nine-Run CSV Export PilotNine Gemini 4 Carbon runs through Pi preserved a Django export's staff-only policy. A linked permission map was read; an unlinked one was ignored.Who Are Our Frameworks For Now?How framework conventions shape AI code changes, with an admin-only CSV export example and a test plan for checking permissions.Why I Upgraded the Screen I Visit Most After the TerminalMy new tab was already my most-visited screen after the terminal. That is why I upgraded it with work links, dev servers, and a compact feed.