About

Lokesh Motwani is a seasoned Director of Engineering at Simpl, with a wealth of experience in building products that cater to people's needs. He is an entrepreneur and seed investor passionate about developing software solutions that enable individuals to do things they could not do before. Lokesh's expertise in understanding people's needs and combining them with his solid software engineering skills makes him a magician in the field. With over 14 years of relevant experience, Lokesh has a great entrepreneurial experience of running two seed-stage startups. He has hands-on exposure in product development, product management, customer research, and marketing. Lokesh is adept at defining tech roadmaps for teams and defining product strategy and experience for problems involving AI/ML, Big Data. Lokesh has worked as a Senior Technical Architect at Solv and as a Founder, CTO/CPO at Ketchup, a location-based social network for finding friends and content in a hyper-local space, enabling advertisers for location-aware advertising. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from SIST Chennai and attended Mayoor School, Ajmer. Lokesh's tech stack includes senior software engineer, big data, ML, AI, JavaScript, Kafka, product manager, Java, research scientist, software engineer, NodeJS, Hadoop, microservices, AWS, P2P, Spark, test, data scientist, iOS, integration, mobile, and backend. Lokesh is a dynamic and innovative leader who is always looking for ways to improve his team's performance and produce exceptional results.