Rahul Founding eng @ HeroStuff, ex- @ProductHunt. Shipping Bakd.work, Maaa.app & KofeFlow.com. Found bugs in Apple, Google & Meta. Apple WWDC'17 Scholar.

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Rahul Founding eng @ HeroStuff, ex- @ProductHunt. Shipping Bakd.work, Maaa.app & KofeFlow.com. Found bugs in Apple, Google & Meta. Apple WWDC'17 Scholar.

Career

Rahul studied at Sri Sairam Engineering College, Chennai (Bachelor of Engineering) and DeepLearning.AI & Stanford Online (Machine Learning Specialization).

Founding Engineer at Hero: AI bulk listing tool for eBay and Facebook Marketplace from 2024-04 to 2026 in RemoteDesigned and built core Django/GraphQL systems powering mobile, web and browser-extension clients, with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Celery and Redis supporting listings, pricing, billing and marketplace workflows. Built neural-network pricing systems using marketplace
Senior Engineer / Associate Team Lead at ProductHunt from 2017-11 to 2024-01 in RemoteBuilt Promoted Products end-to-end across data models, GraphQL APIs, background jobs, analytics, admin tooling and frontend; it became one of Product Hunt's largest revenue products. Progressed from Junior Engineer Intern to Associate Team Lead over six years, leading engineers aWorked with Ryan Hoover and Andreas Klinger 🦾.
bakd.work

Bakd — good work, good words.

Your work, backed by the people who know it. One good page.

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Homing in on bug bounties

Rahul M is 19 and hunts at night. There are days when he returns empty-handed, after hours of trawling through the internet. On others, he gets lucky and spots that elusive bug which allows a hacker to access your closed Facebook group or worse. The engineering student from Chennai then files a report with the company, collects a handsome cash prize or finds a mention in their Hall of Fame

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maaa.app

Maaa — Someone’s looking out for you.

Gentle reminders. A familiar voice. Right in your Mac’s notch. Meet Maaa, a little home in your Mac.

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kofeflow.com

Kofe Flow - Private Pomodoro Timer for the Mac Menu Bar

Focus from your Mac menu bar with a calm timer, local analytics, and no productivity-system clutter.

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