Kanav Kalra — CEO

Engineering leader with nearly 15 years of extensive experience across ideation, architecture, design, and development of scalable and robust systems. Adept at driving business transformation through innovative technological solutions, fostering collaboration, and delivering impactful results. Proven expertise in crafting strategies and roadmaps that align with business objectives, while ensuring cost efficiency and seamless consumer experiences. Skilled in building, mentoring, and empowering high-performing teams to navigate complex challenges and deliver excellence. Areas of Expertise : • Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, refining tech stacks, and driving innovation to enhance user experience and support business growth. • Proven ability to deliver secure, scalable, and customer-focused technology solutions. • Hands-on experience in architecture, design, and technical reviews for web and mobile platforms. • Strong leadership in managing projects end-to-end, from ideation to execution. • Effective stakeholder management, collaborating closely with the CTO to define and implement technology roadmaps. • Scalable architecture design and implementation • Engineering excellence and uptime reliability (99.9%) • Cloud technologies (AWS) and CI/CD • Agile methodologies and project management • High-traffic portal/mobile app development • Team leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration • SDLC optimisation and technology innovation • Hiring, Quarterly roadmaps and planning Highlights : • Led and contributed to multiple teams across platforms, including Makaan.com, PropertyForYou, and Housing. • Led infrastructure planning for Housing systems, scaling seamlessly to handle 10x traffic spikes during IPL campaigns and ensuring flawless system performance under peak loads. • Achieved 99.9% uptime through system reliability improvements and proactive engineering • Led efforts to help scale main Housing service to ~1500 TPS. • Led efforts to containerise Ruby on Rails applications, improving scalability and operational workflows • Delivered critical initiatives like Business Metric Suite and response time optimisation Tech Stack : Programming : Java, Spring Boot, hibernate, REST, RabbitMQ, Microservices, ROR Datasources : Mysql, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Solr, redis, Aerospike Cloud/Infra : AWS, EC2, ALB, RDS, S3, DocumentDB, SQS, SNS, DR/BCP Tools : Docker, GIT, Eclipse, Nginx, JIRA, ELK, Newrelic, Datadog, Jenkins, CI/CD, Pagerduty, Prometheus, Grifana

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with expertise in scalable systems and cloud technologies.

Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Experience: 16 yrs