Rushikesh Patade

Summary

Founding Engineer at Soca, building the backend, state layer, and infra for a Go matching pipeline. Six years of shipping — from Assembly and PyTorch to Flutter and Rust — across VectorShift, Fyle, and Black Cherie Media. Outside of work, building ludexel, a multi-engine platform that turns a prompt into a playable game, on top of fabri, my own local-memory and agent-orchestration framework.

Experience

• Founding Engineer · Soca

  Jun 2026 – Present
  Full-time · Hybrid
  • Built core components of a multi-stage Go matching pipeline — candidate generation through LLM-based judging to constrained allocation — designed for relevance and fairness at scale.
  • Authored backfill/migration scripts to roll out engine updates safely across existing data, maintaining data sanity as schemas evolved.
  • Hardened a Postgres-backed task queue: at-most-once claims, stale-job reclaim, configurable timeouts with detached ack/fail contexts, closing silent match-loss paths.
  • Tuned the DB pool against a constrained pooler to kill pool-exhaustion failures; built an LLM cost/usage observability ledger capturing per-call token spend.
  • Designed the end-to-end state and data layer from scratch — a realtime sync bus over React Query (server state) + Zustand (client state) — setting the patterns for data flow, caching, and live updates.
  • Built data-heavy admin surfaces on it: a Curator Console (approve/reject matches, engine-health views) and a Cost & Usage page with server-side search/pagination.
  • Re-architected a two-app Turbo workspace into a single Nx polyglot monorepo (Go + Deno edge + Python + Vite).
  • Stood up distinct staging/prod environments end-to-end with isolated secrets, plus per-PR preview environments with auto-teardown.
  • Wired LiveKit Cloud agent deploys per environment with runtime secret injection.
  • Led a CI/CD overhaul: explicit GitHub Actions deploys, one-click redeploys, and a schema drift-guard syncing CI integration tests with engine migrations.
  • Owned releases as merge/promotion gatekeeper (dev→prod), reviewing teammates' PRs; resolved LiveKit voice-agent issues — recording egress, transcription, dispatch races, and a staging regression.
  Go · React.js · TanStack Query · Zustand · Postgres · Nx · LiveKit · GitHub Actions
• Senior Software Engineer · VectorShift

  Jan 2026 – May 2026
  Full-time · Remote
  React.js · Redux Thunk
• Software Engineer · VectorShift

  Jan 2025 – Dec 2025
  Full-time · India
  React.js · Redux Thunk
• Member of Technical Staff 1 · Fyle

  Jul 2024 – Dec 2024
  Full-time · Remote
  Angular · Testing
• Technical Lead · Black Cherie Media

  Feb 2024 – May 2024
  Full-time · Hybrid · Pune District, Maharashtra, India
  Technical Project Leadership
• Frontend Intern · Fyle

  Jun 2023 – Dec 2023
  Internship · Remote
  Testing · Teamwork

Selected projects

• ludexel

  In development · live product

  Python · Astro · C · Agents
  Prompt to playable game, across engines. A multi-engine game platform. Type a prompt, get a playable game — starting with the Game Boy Advance, with platform plugins in the works for UEFN, Roblox, and Minecraft. Astro landing, Python SDK, agent-driven content pipeline.

  ludexel.rushour0.com
• fabri

  Python · Qdrant · LLM
  Local memory + orchestration for custom LLM agents. SCOPE-style tactical and strategic memory over execution traces. Qdrant-backed, polyglot subprocess tools, agent-as-tool composition. The runtime behind ludexel's content agents.

  github.com/Rushour0/fabri
• Nakshekadam

  SIH 2022 — Winner · 10★

  Flutter · Dart
  SIH 2022 winning project. Smart India Hackathon 2022 winner. Cross-platform Flutter app addressing a national problem statement — my most-starred repo and the first real ship.

  github.com/Rushour0/Nakshekadam-SIH
• IoT-Architecture

  3★

  Mermaid · Systems
  A curated hub of IoT architectural patterns. Reference architectures and patterns for IoT systems, written in Mermaid so the diagrams live next to the reasoning.

  github.com/Rushour0/IoT-Architecture
• appwrite_ui_auth

  7★

  Flutter · Dart · Appwrite
  Flutter auth template library. Drop-in Appwrite authentication UI + flow package for Flutter — email, OAuth, session handling wired up so a new app can start from a signed-in state.

  github.com/Rushour0/appwrite_ui_auth
• ssd-implementation

  PyTorch · Computer Vision
  VGG16D + SSD, from scratch in PyTorch. Single-Shot Detector built ground-up on a VGG16D backbone. An exercise in reading the paper and typing every layer, not calling torchvision.

  github.com/Rushour0/ssd-implementation

Trajectory

• 2020
  First commits. Started shipping code publicly on GitHub. Small tools, game clones, learning by breaking things.
• 2022
  Nakshekadam wins Smart India Hackathon. Cross-platform Flutter app takes SIH 2022 — the moment building for real users clicked.
• 2024
  The LLM / agent shift. Full turn toward agent systems, orchestration, and the tooling around large models.
• 2026
  ludexel and fabri. Building a multi-engine game platform on top of a local memory + orchestration framework. Prompt in, playable game out.

Toolbox

Languages

Python · TypeScript · Dart · Rust · C · C++ · Assembly · Lua · Java

Runtimes

Node.js · Astro · Flutter · PyTorch · pygame

Systems

GBA / devkitARM · UEFN / Verse · Roblox · Cloudflare Pages · Docker · Qdrant · MongoDB · MinIO

Practice

Agent orchestration · Content-addressed storage · Retro/embedded tooling · Computer vision · Editorial UI

Additional work — selected repositories