Kshitiz Garg

Director of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India19 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in data and software architecture.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect and Data Analytics Specialist.
Expert in building AI-first platforms for innovation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Data and AI/ML Architect with extensive leadership experience.

Contact

stephanion2002@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Leadership And StrategyData ArchitectureData EngineeringMicroservicesCloud Native ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentArchitecture DesignPerformance Tuning

Other Skills

AI AgentsAPI DevelopmentAWSAWS Cloud ServicesAWS LambdaAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsApplication SecurityCloud ApplicationsCloud ComputingCloud InfrastructureCoaching & MentoringData StructuresDesign PatternsDistributed Applications

About

Leading Data, AI/ML & BI Platforms at Fanatics Commerce. Building data mesh architectures, self-service analytics, and AI agent platforms with a focus on data quality and democratization. 20+ years of experience spanning architecture, agile delivery, product optimization, and leadership. 15 years as a hands-on Software Architect creating scalable Java and Python applications. AWS Certified Solutions Architect and Data Analytics Specialist. Passionate about connecting with data leaders and building AI-first platforms that drive innovation.

Experience

Fanatics

2 roles

Director of Software Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Leading Data, AI/ML & BI Platforms at Fanatics Commerce, democratizing data access and accelerating Agent & LLM adoption across application engineering teams.
Previously led cross-functional teams developing supply chain products, delivering scalable solutions that enhanced operational efficiency and streamlined logistics processes.
Organized three consecutive annual Hackathon events, culminating in a GenAI-focused event in 2024 that was featured in an AWS blog post.

AI AgentsLeadership and StrategyAgile MethodologiesData ArchitectureCloud Computing

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Led the CRM technology domain, managing multiple teams responsible for microservices and data pipelines processing ~100 million customer records at scale.
Technology stack: Microservices architecture, real-time streaming, data engineering, AWS cloud services, SaaS integrations, and enterprise data management.

MicroservicesData EngineeringAWS Cloud ServicesReal-time Streaming

Human edge (enterprises)

Strategic Advisor

Aug 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Routes.life

Co-Founder

Jan 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

Gartner

Software Architect, IC role

May 2015 – Jul 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Cloud native architecture/development for various microservices and modules for Gartner.com (Email, Data Engineering, Search, QA automation framework and Personalization), mostly written in Java and Python
AWS (Batch, Lambda, Step Functions, ECR, EKS, EMR, SES, SQS, SNS, EC2, CloudWatch etc.), Spring framework, Kafka, Redis, SOLR, Docker
Security issue fixes for cross site scripting (XSS) and CSRF vulnerabilities, info leakage, content spoofing etc.
Performance tuning aspects (thread/heap dump analysis, capacity planning, JMeter, Yourkit, caching, HTTP headers- expires/etag/vary/keep-alive etc., and code fixes as granular as avoiding string concatenation in log statements by modifying code analyzers, etc.)

Cloud Native ArchitectureJavaPythonAWSSoftware Development

Fidelity international

Technical Specialist (Architect, Dev Lead)

Jan 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Architecture, design and development of the new features/enhancements, mostly written in Java (e. g. changed legacy data sources, replaced unstable polling based modules with scalable and reliable MQ based services etc)., Performance tuning of financial data movement processes

JavaPerformance TuningArchitecture Design