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Kaushik Mahorker

Kaushik Mahorker

YC founder helping e-commerce brands win their category in ChatGPT shopping

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San Francisco, California
Joined January 2025
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Summary

Kaushik co-founded Wildcard (YC W25), a YC-backed platform helping e-commerce brands win in ChatGPT Shopping by tracking AI mentions, monitoring product rankings, fixing missing product attributes, and driving sales. Wildcard integrates with top ecommerce platforms and offers early access to instant checkout via the Agentic Commerce Protocol. wild-card+1
Engineering leadership and GenAI operational experience: prior to founding Wildcard, Kaushik served as an engineering manager at Scale AI (leading a GenAI Allocation team) after software engineering roles — giving him both hands‑on systems experience and experience running small GenAI/engineering teams. fondo+1
Academic research background and practicality: Kaushik completed a B.S. in Computer Science at UCSB (Distinction in the Major — research track) and an M.S. at UCLA with research and writing on applied ML/vision topics. His academic poster and Medium posts reflect both research experience and an interest in making ML systems practical. ucsb+2
Active open-source maintainer and engineer: public GitHub activity (personal profile and Wildcard repos) shows contributions to developer tooling (agents.json, DeepContext MCP) and integrations that target practical agent workflows—evidence of strengths in full‑stack engineering, developer APIs, and agent tooling. github+2

Work

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Writing

NoScope: Scaling Neural Network Queries to the Real-World

August 1, 2020

Medium piece describing NoScope — bridging deep learning research and real-world applications, focusing on reducing operational costs for neural-network-based systems.

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EWISE: A New Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation

May 1, 2020

Medium write-up discussing approaches to word sense disambiguation and related research summaries.

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Creating Customizable Texturized VR Environments from Real World Images (Undergraduate research poster)

January 1, 2019

Undergraduate research project and poster exploring techniques to create texturized VR environments from real images; presented at UCSB CS Undergraduate Research Poster Session (Distinction in the Major).

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Hobbies

Basketball (high school athlete and interest) elestoque+1

Photography / personal social posts (Instagram) instagram