Aditya Chowdhry

About

I'm a software engineer. I've worked across most of what a product company builds: user-facing features, growth, backend systems and the platforms underneath them. The common thread is building products people can rely on.

At Urban Company I worked on customer-facing features, the matchmaking system, and platform and infrastructure. At Gojek I was on the platform team. At Probo I worked on growth, platform and infrastructure, and later led engineering. Most of my writing comes from those years.

Now I'm building KoshaX, an AI assistant that helps people keep track of personal and shared commitments. I'm also curious about how engineering changes as agents write more of the code.

NowCo-founder, KoshaX
Worked acrossProduct, growth, backend, platform
BeforeProbo, Gojek, Urban Company
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Work

KoshaX Co-founder

Now

An AI assistant that helps people keep track of personal and shared commitments.

koshax.com →

Probo Head of Engineering

Growth, platform and infrastructure, then led engineering. Scaling for cricket-match traffic is where most of my writing comes from.

Read the Cricket Scale series →

Gojek Platform team

Internal tooling to create, deploy and monitor services, and the move from VMs to Kubernetes.

Urban Company Software Engineer

Customer-facing features, the matchmaking system, and platform and infrastructure.

How I build

A few things I keep coming back to.

01Keep things simple

Simple designs outlive clever ones.

From “Software Engineering: Living With Uncertainty” →
02Unix philosophy

Small, focused pieces that do one thing well, composed through clear interfaces.

03Think in systems, not tasks

Build with the whole picture in mind, not just the task in front of you.

From “Thinking in Systems: A Builder’s View” →
04Ownership is shared, not assigned

It grows when people feel safe, supported, and informed enough to step up.

From “Democratizing Ownership: The Secret to Scalable Teams” →

Earlier

  • Studied at GTBIT, Delhi (2012–16). Brought competitive programming to campus and ran the CodeChef chapter.
  • ACM ICPC Kolkata regionals 2015. Won IEEEXtreme at GTBIT.
  • Top 20 at IndiaHacks 2016. Microsoft Student Partner.

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Say hello

Happy to talk scaling, platform teams, AI agents or KoshaX. DMs on X are the fastest way to reach me. If your team needs hands-on help, see consulting.

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