Palash Kala
Product & Engineering at Composio
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPalash Kala is a product-focused engineering leader with nine years of experience building AI-driven consumer and enterprise products, currently leading Product & Engineering in San Francisco. He blends hands-on backend engineering (notably contributing fixes and reliability improvements to the ONOS open-source network OS) with product instincts honed across startups and high-growth teams at CRED and Nintee. Palash has co-founded and iterated deep technical experiments—from AI agents for playable ads to hyper-personalized marketing—learning when to pause ideas based on market signals and unit economics. His work repeatedly moves products from prototype to measurable outcomes (e.g., boosting retention and payment success rates), and he pairs behavioral design, data pipelines, and experimentation to drive product decisions. Unusually, he combines telecom-grade Java systems experience with modern AI/agent product builds, making him effective at shipping reliable, scalable features that meet real user needs.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayYoung India Fellowship Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Young India Fellowship Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Ashoka University
English, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Marwari, Korean
Github Skills (8)
javas10
computer-engineering10
java10
operating-system10
refactor9
refactoring9
debugging8
openflow8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opennetworkinglab/onos
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Open Network Operating System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Palash primarily focused on improving code quality and preventing potential errors within the ONOS project, an Open Network Operating System. Their contributions involved identifying and fixing vulnerabilities such as null pointer dereferences and missing null checks. They also addressed code inefficiencies and refactored existing logic to enhance maintainability and prevent runtime exceptions, as evidenced by the changes in multiple Java files related to core network functionalities.
operating-system
palashk290195/felicity-seek-find
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:60 pushes, 12 branches in 2 months
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