Kedar Basutkar
Senior Frontend Engineer
Lucidity
Pune, India
About
I’m currently a Senior Frontend Engineer at Lucidity, solving multi-cloud block storage optimization problems. I specialize in crafting lean, scalable solutions that deliver exceptional user experiences.
Performance is central to my work, with a strong focus on optimizing web vitals; I have strong expertise in SSR, SSG, resumability, and deep knowledge of DOM APIs and the browser ecosystem, which I leveraged to shape the product at Fable and Lucidity.
I also love building side projects. Most recently I built VideoAI, a search engine for videos that leverages vision models, vector databases, and embeddings to enable natural language content queries.
Beyond that, I’m an active hackathon participant and tech speaker, having delivered talks at international conferences on performance, frontend engineering, and AI.
Experience
Lucidity
Fable
Eaton Aerospace
My Apps
VideoAI
A tool that lets you treat videos like a database, allowing you to instantly search and retrieve video content using natural language queries!
Convo Digest
A local-first solution based on RAG using embeddings to privately analyse community conversations. Built using Ollama, Vectra (Vector DB), Llama 3.1, React, and Node!
Roadmap Runner
Simplify learning software development with expert-created roadmaps, progress tracking, consistency analysis, leaderboards, and social sharing for accountability!
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Tech Talks
Natural Language Meets Video: Querying Videos Like a Database 
Watch on YouTube
Presented at Devconf India 2025 Conference
Exploring Resumability: How It Makes Instant Loading Apps Possible
Presented at FOSS United Bangalore Annual Meetup
Need for Speed: Best Practices for Web Performance Optimization
Presented at React Pune, Laravel Pune and Laravel Mumbai communities.
Achievements
Winner - Lucidity Champions Award - April 2025
- Solved pain-points wrt to developer experience such as making CICD pipelines and test suite run faster, fixing visual regression bugs, etc.
- Improved processes by mentoring teammates on design specs and execution.
Winner - Lucidity Champions Award - January 2025
- Within 3 months of joining, delivered high-value projects including Job-based VM Onboarding and Linux VMs Bulk Onboarding.
- Contributed significantly to hiring by creating hiring rubrics & leading design-round interviews.
1st Runner Up - Fixit Hackathon 2024
- Built a RAG-based Knowledge Base to enable natural language search and summarisation over product documentation. This solution later got integrated in our product.
- Earned strong stakeholder appreciation for delivering a production-ready prototype during the hackathon
Winner - Treasure Hacks 3.0 Hackathon
- Achieved first place at TreasureHacks 3.0 Hackathon among 600+ participants.
- Launched RoadmapRunner, an app that streamlines software development learning, attracting over 450 users.
Winner - DIPEX 2020
- Achieved first place in a state-level competition with over 200 participants for designing and building a 3D printer from scratch.
Top 8th Team - CrossKnotHacks Hackathon
- Made it to the Top 8 list of CrossKnot Hacks out of 75+ participants.
- Built DevCase, an app to generate a developer portfolio website seamlessly.
My Blog
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Skills
Typescript
React.js
Java
Next.js
Node.js
Express.js
Go
HTML
CSS
Tailwind
Javascript
