Pixzest — Zest for Innovation
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Who we are

A studio that keeps unreasonable standards

Pixzest is led by engineers who spent years building at PayPal, Samsung, Sixt, Ola and CRED. Since December 2023 we've put that experience to work for founders, enterprises, and everyone in between.

Leadership

Engineers who have shipped at real scale

More than 25 years between them at PayPal, Samsung, Sixt, Ola and CRED — payments, devices, mobility and fintech, built for millions of people.

Jyothish K

Solution architecture · Backend · AI/ML

Jyothish brings more than fifteen years of building software across the stack — front-end, back-end and, more recently, AI/ML. The work began at Samsung, leading the team behind Presentation Mode, a real-time collaborative presentation app, and continued through the booking experience at Ola and the rent-a-car features of the Sixt One app.

At PayPal, Jyothish architected a server-driven UI platform and led the eleven-person team that shipped it; its SDK went on to serve more than 12 million users a month at a 99.99% crash-free rate. That work and the years at Samsung produced three granted patents. Since 2023 the focus has been SaaS products built end to end — back-end, apps, device firmware and GenAI.

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Amal Chandran

Mobile · Android, iOS & Flutter · AI/ML

Amal has spent more than a decade building mobile apps used by millions. Six years at Ola took in a rewrite of the driver app, Ola Store built from scratch, and the SDK that animates cabs and routes across Google Maps in an app with more than 100 million downloads.

Since then Amal has led iOS development at Fincent and UX and feature work at CRED — real-time group buying, then a cross-platform Flutter app — and built MAVI, an AI system that turns interface images into code.

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What we stand for

Six things we actually hold to

Not a poster in the hallway — these are the arguments we have internally, written down.

01

Purpose-driven

Every pixel exists for a reason. We start with the why and work outward.

02

Radical honesty

Transparent communication, including the parts nobody enjoys saying out loud.

03

Obsessive craft

We never ship work we wouldn't put our own name on the bottom of.

04

Deep empathy

We design for real people with real constraints, not for the portfolio shot.

05

Curiosity first

We stay students. The best creative work is the best-informed work.

06

Ownership culture

Everyone on the team carries the outcome, not just their slice of it.

The team

The people who do the work

A small, senior group. The person you meet in the kickoff is the person on your project.

Jyothish K

Solution Architecture · Backend · AI/ML

Designs the architecture behind what we build and leads engineering, from backend services to AI features.

Amal Chandran

Mobile · Android, iOS & Flutter · AI/ML

Leads mobile — native Android and iOS, and cross-platform Flutter — with a focus on fast, polished apps.

Kamal Jaiswal

Business · Product Management · AI

Shapes what we build and why, connecting business goals to product roadmaps and the right uses of AI.

Hitesh Kumar

Mobile Applications · AI · Digital Marketing

Builds mobile applications, and brings AI and digital marketing together to help products grow.

Govind Ajith

Backend · Data Streaming · Data Pipelines

Builds backend services and the streaming pipelines that move and process data as it happens.

Vikraman Sreedharan

Product · Strategy

Works with clients on product strategy — what to build, in what order, and how to measure it.

Karan Rajesh

Data Analyst

Turns raw data into the analysis, reports and dashboards that teams can act on.

Vipin Edamunda

Platform QA · Program Management

Keeps delivery on track and quality high, from platform testing to programme planning.

Technologies

The stack we build with

From mobile and web front-ends to backends, data platforms and the cloud they run on — the technologies our team works in every day.

  • Mobile

    Native where it counts, cross-platform where it pays off.

    • Native Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose)
    • Native iOS (Swift, SwiftUI)
    • Flutter
    • React Native

  • Web

    Fast, accessible front-ends built on a typed stack.

    • React.js
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • HTML & CSS

  • Backend

    APIs and services that stay maintainable as they grow.

    • Node.js frameworks
    • Spring Boot
    • Python frameworks
    • REST & GraphQL APIs
    • WebSockets

  • Databases

    The right store for each job, relational to real-time.

    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL
    • MongoDB
    • Redis
    • Supabase
    • Firebase

  • Data streaming & processing

    Pipelines that move and transform data as it happens.

    • Apache Kafka
    • Apache Spark
    • Apache Flink
    • Apache Iceberg

  • Analytics & BI

    Dashboards and reports people actually use.

    • Power BI
    • Tableau
    • SQL analytics

  • AI & ML

    Models and AI features taken from prototype to production.

    • Python
    • Large language model APIs
    • Computer vision
    • Model fine-tuning

  • Cloud & DevOps

    Infrastructure and delivery pipelines that stay out of the way.

    • AWS
    • Google Cloud
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Fastlane)

  • Quality & testing

    Automated where it can be, careful where it must be.

    • Playwright
    • Selenium
    • Appium
    • Unit & integration testing
    • Performance testing

Want to build something together?

We're always up for a conversation with ambitious teams — even the ones still figuring out what they need.