Kunal Kapadia

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

12+ years in software engineering and distributed systems.
Led the launch of a successful fintech product in 4 weeks.
Expert in architecting scalable systems using modern technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in building scalable distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsProduct Development

Other Skills

AWS servicesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSBanking partner integrationCC#C++CodeshipCompetitive ProgrammingDockerDocker ComposeELKEngineeringExpress.jsFirebase

About

• Software Engineer with 12+ years building distributed systems, a large part of it involved building 0-1 products and teams. Biased towards code readability. • Have good understanding and experience in server-side development - Architecting highly reliable, scalable & maintainable distributed systems. • Good hold over Data Structures and Algorithms. Reads actively on Database, Microservice, High level architecture design and scalability concepts. Was involved in Competitive Programming - Spoj, CodeChef and TopCoder. • Enthusiastic about new cutting edge technologies, exploring Blockchain recently

Experience

Fi

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Architected and led the development of complex, scalable systems using golang, gRPC, AWS services, PostgreSQL and Redis.
Built and led the engineering team of 10+ engineers across 2 different business units.
Created data-driven roadmaps for tech prioritizing features aligned with the long term strategic product and business goals.
Designed and led Networth product launch from conceptualization to production in 4 weeks for Global Fintech Fest ‘24. It went on to become the second highest product within Fi in terms of user engagement.

GolanggRPCAWS servicesPostgreSQLRedisDistributed Systems+1

Founding Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2019 – Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Designed and developed segmentation engine as platform to target user groups for multiple use cases across different orgs within the company.
Designed and developed Nudges system to drive user personalization and increase visibility & adoption of features. Generic enough to be used as per different product contexts.
Designed and developed a referral system from scratch and it went on to hit significant scale within 2 days breaking our system limits.
Designed and developed deposits (Fixed Deposit, Recurring Deposit and Smart Deposit) via a banking partner integration.
Designed and developed rewards redemption platform to convert fi points to Vistara miles and ITC green points.

Segmentation engineNudges systemReferral systemBanking partner integrationRewards redemption platformProduct Development+1

Dunzo

Tech Lead

Dec 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

Wazirx (by crowdfire and acquired by binance)

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2017 – Sep 2018 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

WazirX is India's largest crypto currency exchange by Crowdfire. It was built from scratch by a team of 7. Launched in March 2018 and become India's largest crypto, in terms of trade volume, by September 2018 and got acquired by Binance in Nov 2019.
Architected and implemented -
➤ WRX coin - https://support.wazirx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000497354-WRX-Coin-Details-How-to-earn
➤ Referral system allowing user to earn WRX via referrals. Also credit 50% of trading commission to the referrer - https://wazirx.com/referral
➤ Contest leaderboard. Automated winner announcement via email, and WRX distribution as per the rank - https://wazirx.com/contest
➤ Entire KYC Workflow from uploading of identity docs to profile verification by admins. Also setup auto KYC to activate profile instantly.
➤ WRX Miner program to reward users depending on the value of trades - https://wazirx.com/wrx-mining.
➤ Wazirx P2P - Allowing user to buy USDT to trade cryptos, or sell USDT and cash out in INR. This was due to RBI ban leading to delinking of bank accounts - https://wazirx.com/peer-to-peer
➤ Instant INR withdrawals via Cashfree to user's bank account. Also verification of bank account details.
➤ Introduced Maker-Taker model in existing trading system thereby rewarding users whose order lead to filling of order book.
➤ Migrated an existing monolith in Ruby to Go leading to almost 10X improvement in API response time.
Tech - Go, Ruby, MySQL, SQS, RabbitMQ, Gin, Docker, Kubernetes, Mixpanel, Periscope, New Relic, Sysdig, ELK

GoRubyMySQLSQSRabbitMQDocker+3

Crowdfire

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Crowdfire as a product helps small businesses market themselves or their products on social media.
➤ Built Publish Platform supporting 5 social networks, which publishes around 100K posts daily. Mentored and led a team of 2 for the same.
➤ Rewrote critical microservices in Go to handle high load and reduce latency.
➤ Developed an internal nodejs starter kit to be used for every new microservice.
➤ Refactored and increased code coverage in existing microservices.
➤ Dockerised existing microservices to deploy on Kubernetes.
➤ Scaling microservices using concurrent solutions, message queuing and developing low latency API's.
➤ Developed scraping service in Golang as a side project which eventually went on to replace existing python implementation as it could handle high workload with around 30% latency improvements.
➤ Explored Machine Learning. Was facilitator for ML team.
Tech - Go, Node, Python, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Aerospike, SQS, RabbitMQ, Gin, Express, Hapi, GAE Task Queue, Docker, Kubernetes, Mixpanel, Periscope, New Relic, Sysdig, ELK

GoNodePythonMySQLRedisMongoDB+2

Fropcorn

Founding Software Engineer

Aug 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

First employee. Fropcorn is a hyper-local entertainment company that delivers content to people on the move.
Graduated from 1st batch of GenNext Reliance-Microsoft Accelerator Program.
Selected among Top 30 Team - Tech30 @ YourStory's TechSparks.
➤ Built entire Fropcorn Backend from scratch which included microservices responsible from placing order to streaming content. Also wrote unit and integration tests with 90% test coverage overall.
➤ Built Fropcorn’s consumer facing mobile site for exploring media content and placing orders.
➤ Built Order Completion Android App which is handed over to the local vendors for completing orders paid by cash.
➤ Setup the continuous integration system via Teamcity.
➤ Mobile site Analytics using Mixpanel
➤ Application monitoring of nodejs services and Perf Monitoring of servers via NewRelic
➤ Logging, error tracking and alerts via Loggly.
Tech - Node.js, Express.js, Parse.com, MongoDB, Mocha, Chai, AngularJS, LESS, Ionic Framework, Cordova, Android

Node.jsExpress.jsMongoDBIonic FrameworkProduct Development

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Development Engineer in Test

Jun 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

➤ Owned overall test infrastructure and code coverage at Data Protection Manager (DPM) team.
➤ Automated Scale Testing of backup to tape feature from physical DPM.
➤ Stress and reliability testing of backup to tape over SynthFC from virtualized DPM.