Kunal Kushwaha

CEO

Tokyo, Japan19 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in system software design and cloud-native platforms.
Expert in building scalable and secure systems with DevOps practices.
Currently developing an open-source AI framework for intelligent systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Architect with expertise in scalable systems and DevOps practices.

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About

Hands-on Technical Architect and Technology Leader with 20+ years of experience in system software design, cloud-native platforms, and enterprise product development. Proven success driving innovation from concept to delivery, leading global engineering teams, and architecting first-to-market products. Specialized in building scalable, resilient, and secure systems through modern DevOps practices, infrastructure-as-code, and end-to-end CI/CD automation. Skilled at designing cloud-native architectures that accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and empower developer productivity. Currently building AgenticGoKit - an open-source framework that brings agentic AI patterns and Go-based microservices together to simplify the creation of intelligent, event-driven systems. Passionate about integrating AI, automation, and cloud technologies to enhance developer ecosystems and drive digital transformation at enterprise scale. Recognized for blending strategic vision with deep technical expertise to deliver measurable business impact and foster high-performance engineering cultures.

Experience

Hcltech

Lead Specialist

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos · Tokyo, Japan

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Tokyo, Japan

Nuance communications

Principal Cloud Architect

Aug 2020 – Aug 2023 · 3 yrs · Tokyo, Japan

Harvard business review

Advisory Council member

Aug 2020 – Aug 2023 · 3 yrs

A member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, an opt-in research community of business professionals.

Ntt data intellilink

Senior Technical Architect

Jul 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Tokyo, Japan

Docker tokyo meetup

Docker Community Leader & Meetup Organizer

Jan 2016 – Aug 2023 · 7 yrs 7 mos · Tokyo, Japan

Ntt data gts, japan

2 roles

Senior Technical Architect

Promoted

Oct 2015 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Software Specialist

Oct 2012 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs

Ntt (nippon telegraph and telephone corporation)

Senior Expert

Oct 2015 – Aug 2020 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Within 23 wards, Tokyo, Japan

Working on containers stack ( Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, KubeVirt).

Startup leadership program

Fellow

Sep 2014 – Mar 2015 · 6 mos

Proware technologies corp.

Software Architect & Director of India Operations

Oct 2005 – Oct 2012 · 7 yrs · Pune Area, India

Lead and Managed Proware's India Development Center from 2008 to 2012.
Lead product development of multiple v1.0 Storage Servers (RAID Controllers SCSI-SAS & ISCSI -SAS)
Hired/Build team of 10 engineers for Product development and QA
Worked as Architect for second generation RAID controllers (proSUN) of Proware.
Conceptualized, designed, executed the project and successfully released the product.
Contributed as one of core team member in development of RAID Controller (proSUN) firmware.
proSUN RAID Controllers powers Proware's Flagship product series EPICA.

Calsoft pvt ltd

Software Devlopment Engineer

Jan 2004 – Oct 2005 · 1 yr 9 mos

Worked on IM Security product ( now owned by Symantec) . I worked on IMLinkage an IM framework on which IM Manager works. I worked for complete product cycle of IMLinkage 3.5.
Worked on Storage management for NetApp, implemented Data Migration over CIFS and NFS. I contributed in design, implementation and coordinating with QA for bug fixing.
Worked on Virtual Drive for Windows, which was mapped in Windows explorer and user can do all operations as data is on local disk. The data was stored on Server over internet. Implement most of client side and added caching and auto sync features to optimize the IO operations.