About

Kaushal Cavale is a Senior Principal Engineer at Freshworks, with over 20 years of experience in product engineering and management. He is a technical founder with a strong product vision and has founded and run multiple startups. Kaushal has raised multiple rounds of funding from VC firms like Accel, Qualcomm, and SoftBank. Kaushal is a core developer at heart, with extensive experience in building multiple new products primarily in the area of office productivity suites. He leads from the front and brings a customer-oriented design focus to building products. He has diversity in experience across the USA, India, and emerging markets. Kaushal's specialties include strong people management skills, including growing and mentoring engineers and tech leads. He has a track record of delivering results even with sparsely defined requirements. He is an AI/ML full stack developer with expertise in ReactJS, NodeJS, Java, and J2EE. He has extensive experience in building cloud-based services on AWS and Google Cloud. At Freshworks, Kaushal is currently responsible for Presentations.ai, which uses the power of machine learning to analyze user input data and extract insights and meaning to build a presentation automatically. He is also responsible for PitchDeck.io, which helps founders present their pitch in a compelling way to investors. Kaushal has end-to-end responsibility for the entire product management lifecycle, and the technology stack consists of Node, React, MySQL, and MongoDB. The entire product rests on a strong multi-tiered AI/ML layer, which incorporates NLP concepts of categorization and prediction and other image and entity-based functionality that helps automate the design of a presentation. Previously, Kaushal was the CTO at Presentations.ai and the Head of Engineering at InstaColl, a SoftBank-funded, Bangalore-based startup that offers a portfolio of SaaS-based products in the office productivity space. At InstaColl, he was solely responsible for product technical architecture, design, and coding. Kaushal holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science and Technology from B.M.S. College of Engineering. His tech stack includes AI, ML, NLP, AWS, product management, MySQL, MongoDB, senior software engineering, Java, NodeJS, ReactJS, and web development. With 26.54 years of relevant experience, Kaushal is a proven leader in product engineering and management.