👋 Hi there, I'm Praveen Koka
I'm a CTO, CPTO, and software architect. I've founded and built 3 startups in IOT, analytics, and SaaS. Led teams of 5-30 members across product, engineering, and operations. Currently work as VP Engineering at an AI dev tools company in Berlin.
Work
VP Engineering
ROQ.ai (Jun 2021 - Present, 2 years 7 months)
Led multiple Engineering teams to ship an AI platform that generates and deploys webapps from plaintext prompts.
Started as Tech Lead, promoted to Director in 3 months, and then to VP Engineering a year later
Co-Founder, CPTO
Greenroom (Jan 2015 - May 2021, 6 years 5 months)
Built a Social Analytics platform processing millions of social media posts per day to generate brand & influencer insights
Raised an angel round, grew the company to ~ $2M in services revenue before moving on
Founder, CEO
Hawtlist.com (Jun 2020 - May 2021, 1 year)
Developed a highly scalable Social commerce app - hawtlist.com - where influencers can recommend products, and earn commissions when their followers purchase them
Tech Lead, Consultant
Goin.org (Apr 2015 - Mar 2018, 3 years)
Built web and mobile dev teams to create an Uber-like app for paramedical transport.
Deployed the solution on-site for a large government agency in Florida, U.S, and handed the project over to an internal Engineering team.
Co-founder, Product Engineering
Roambee (Jan 2010 - Dec 2014, 5 years)
Developed IOT hardware-software solutions for the logistics industry, with OEM vendors in China
Built TCP communication servers for IOT devices, processed streams of sensor data, and built dashboards with location aware sensor data