Kiran Aswath

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering for PetaByte scale data platforms.
  • Architected Customer Data Platform for real-time customer engagement.
  • Improved data ingestion efficiency by 40%.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with extensive experience in data engineering and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipBig DataCloud ComputingEngineering Management

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAmazon EC2Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)Amazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkApplication ArchitectureDistributed SystemsEnterprise ArchitectureEnterprise SoftwareGlobal Delivery

About

Experienced Engineering Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Highly skilled in leading Data platform engineering teams that handled PetaByte scale data in public cloud (AWS) and in engineering products and platforms for scale to solve key customer problems globally. Strong software development professional with an Engineering degree and Diploma in Advanced Computing from CDAC.

Experience

Gupshup

Senior Director Of Engineering

Dec 2021Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Architected and led the team that built a Customer Data Platform (CDP) and Marketing Automation Engine from scratch on public cloud (AWS) in service of Gupshup’s evolution into a Conversational Cloud player (on top of its existing CPaaS offering)
  • CDP built to enable businesses to have rich conversations with their customers using the profiles and activity events collected from various sources. It is architected to handle Billion+ events and hundreds of millions of profiles in near real-time and to serve profile requests in milli seconds. Also includes the Segmentation engine to segment profiles in near real-time
  • Marketing automation engine is being built to handle campaigns (both one-off and automated based) at enterprise scale of millions of messages over multiple channels
Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipBig DataEnterprise ArchitectureDistributed SystemsCloud Computing+2

Intuit

5 roles

Group Development Manager - Leader of Intuit Data Platform (IDC)

Sep 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Responsible for engineering leadership for a 40+ Intuit Data Platform team in IDC, which included Ingestion and Data Catalog engineering.
  • As part of this role,
  • Conceptualised, built and migrated all of Ingestion using Unified Ingestion Platform, which is an event based ingestion platform that handles peta byte scale of data, 3 Billion events / day and Terabytes of new data / day. This effort helped in enabling near real time ingestion of data, decreasing the ingestion on-boarding time through self-serve, significantly improving the freshness of the data in the lake (From 48 hours to 1 hour), Cut the ingestion costs by 40%.
  • Led the team in defining the strategy and execution plan for the data catalog product, which is about building a better discoverable and searchable data using a Open source data catalog solution
Engineering LeadershipBig DataApache SparkAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache Kafka

Group Development Manager - Leader for Ingestion Platform

Feb 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Responsible for leading the engineering of Ingestion platform that is used to ingest Peta Byte scale data into the data lake. As part of this role, was mainly responsible for leading a 20+ member engineering team. As part of this role, took over the responsibility of engineering for all of Ingestion platforms and also effectively lead a highly visible and important migration program of Ingestion platform to public cloud to AWS

Group Development Manager

Aug 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Responsible for leading the engineering for a very complex and highly visible program to revamp the experience of Sales, Care & Business Operations agents across various segments of Small Business Group (SBG). As part of this effort lead the team that built a Near Real Time pipeline that enables agents to get access to real time data in one place. Also responsible for engineering many complex business processes that the agents use to serve our customers. This was a 3-4 year program that involves engineering teams from various BUs of Intuit to collaborate to retire 100+ legacy tools the agents use and consolidate all this in the Target state architecture.

Group Development Manager

Feb 2013Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Responsible for leading engineering for the Global aspects of QuickBooks Online as part of which we launched the product worldwide and enabled accounting for very complex markets like France, India, Australia and Canada. Also undertook the complex effort of enabling the product to support languages other than English. To enable faster launch of the product in various regions, re architected the product using the variability engineering concepts.

Senior Development Manager

Dec 2009Jan 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Responsible for Internationalizing and Globalizing Intuit's QuickBooks Online (QBO) product and launching it in countries outside of US like UK, Singapore. Lead a team of highly skilled engineers that wrote the complex accounting logic for enabling Small Businesses in countries outside of US to run their business while meeting the local accounting norms. This work was key for Intuit to go Global and significantly expand the business outside of US.

Mindtree

4 roles

Program Director for SITA

Promoted

Dec 2007Nov 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Played the role of Delivery manager for a key program for SITA which involved re-developing the Airline Passenger services products using SOA based architecture. Program's end objective was to retire SITA's mainframe systems and develop the Reservation, Check-in, Weight & Balance & other key modules in a SOA based architecture. My responsibilities were to kick start this program for SITA in MindTree and lead a team of 100+ engineers.

Offshore Development Manager for eBay

Oct 2005Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • As a Development Manager for eBay from Mindtree, handled many key initiatives for eBay. Was responsible for setting up the Offshore center for eBay and grew the team to 120+ engineers at its peak.

Offshore Engineering Manager for Elance

Nov 2002Sep 2005 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Responsible for leading the offshore development for Elance which focused on Services Procurement Management. Lead a team of highly skilled engineers with a peak size of 70 engineers
  • Played the role of a technical lead and developed many modules for the product in a SaaS model.

Lead for Hindustan Lever Projects

May 2000Oct 2002 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Tata infotech

Sr. Developer

Sep 1997Apr 2000 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Education

CDAC

ACTS — Diploma in Advanced Computing

Jan 1997Jan 1997

University of Mysore

B.E — Electronics & Communication

Jan 1992Jan 1996

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