Satwik Kansal

A bit about me

I like taking complicated things apart until they are simple, then building them back up properly.

That habit shows up in two places. In my client work, it means systems that keep working when real conditions push on them: AI applications that behave predictably, and trading software that recovers on its own after a crash or a disconnect. In my writing, it means explanations that start from first principles, which is how wtfpython began.

Today I run Zobyt, a remote-first team building finance and AI software for clients around the world, and I still write code every day. Before that I led development of automated trading systems at a Swiss fintech, built an LLM workflow engine at an AI-infrastructure startup, and worked on the payments stack at Myntra.

Outside client work I have mentored hundreds of developers on Codementor, spoken at PyCon India and EuroPython, mentored for Google Summer of Code, and written technical content for IBM, Packt, Educative and others.

I live in Bengaluru and work with people across time zones, with daily overlap with Europe and the US-East morning.

Satwik Kansal

Quick facts

  • Based inBengaluru, India
  • CompanyZobyt
  • Projects delivered200+
  • Mentoring5.0 across 100 reviews
  • LanguagesEnglish, Hindi
  • Emaildiscuss@satwikkansal.xyz

The path so far

  1. 2022 - now
    Founder & lead software engineer, Zobyt

    Finance-and-AI software consultancy. Trading infrastructure, AI and LLM systems, data products and web3 work.

  2. 2020 - 2024
    Lead developer, automated trading systems, Hyperion Fintech AG, Switzerland

    Automated trading systems and strategy infrastructure, working directly with the founders.

  3. 2021
    Senior software engineer, AI infrastructure, Mantium

    Built the workflow engine composing LLMs and other models into pipelines.

  4. 2020 - 2022
    Senior backend engineer, Freelance, through a vetted talent network

    Backend engineering on fintech, AI and blockchain MVPs.

  5. 2020
    Co-founder, CheerDocs

    A self-hostable knowledge-base SaaS, built during lockdown.

  6. 2019
    Founder in Residence, Entrepreneur First

    Explored a startup idea in shared mobility and location intelligence.

  7. 2018 - 2019
    Software engineer, payments, Myntra

    Services on the payments stack of a large e-commerce platform.

  8. 2018 - 2020
    Founder, DevWriters

    Technical writing for IBM, Packt, Educative, Codementor, Scout APM and Xplenty.

  9. 2018
    Author, Packt

    Hands-on Reinforcement Learning with TensorFlow, a video course listed on O'Reilly.

  10. 2017 - 2018
    Google Summer of Code, coala

    Student, then mentor. Also started wtfpython and spoke at PyCon India and EuroPython.