Siva Kiran K.

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led the launch of scalable webinar product.
Reduced cloud spend by 50% through infrastructure improvements.
Scaled engineering team from 6 to over 90 members.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong technical leadership and product development capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipSoftware Architecture

Other Skills

API ManagementAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)ApacheArchitectureBig DataCCloud ServicesClouderaCompliance ManagementDatabase DesignDatabase ManagementDebuggingDistributed SystemsEclipse

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Technical & Product Leadership, Software Architecture, Team Building & Mentoring.

Experience

Airmeet

2 roles

Director Of Engineering (Founding Member)

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Launched core product modules as part of 0 to 1 journey
Built a scalable product that supported up to 100,000 concurrent webinar sessions
Developed engineering operations playbook including CI/CD pipelines, release processes
Improved infrastructure cost-efficiency, reducing cloud spend by 50%
Drove security and compliance by leading ISO 27001 and SOC2 Type 2
Created a people-first culture, implementing two-way feedback loops, career pathing, and leadership training.
Scaled engineering org from 6 to 90+

JavaTeam ManagementDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentScalabilityAgile Methodologies+39

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

Quikr

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Jul 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Responsible for Engineering Delivery of Core, Monetization & InternalTools teams.

JavaTeam ManagementDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentTechnical Leadership

Engineering Manager

Apr 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

Responsible for Engineering Delivery of Jobs vertical.
Major contributions are -
> API (written in play) stabilization which reduced the average overall api response time from several seconds to < 50 msec
> Elasticsearch datastore optimizations, which increased the stability of the overall Play application
> Trained frontend and backend devs as full stack engineers which increased task delivery and reduced blockers

JavaTeam ManagementDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentTechnical Leadership

Lead Software Engineer

Feb 2016 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

Responsible for Engineering Delivery of Quikrx team (Ecommerce solution for Mobiles, Tablets & Accessories).
Major contributions are -
> Mobiles & Tablets vertical pages re architecture
> Removal of release dependency with other verticals which enabled independent & quick releases and increased the task delivery rate by multifold
> My offers module, which increased the customer interactions against the offers they made against Quikr C2C advertisements

JavaTeam ManagementDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentTechnical Leadership

Commonfloor.com

2 roles

Technical Lead (Founding Engineer)

Aug 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · On-site

• Responsible for engineering delivery of Core team.

Product Engineer

Oct 2009 – Jul 2014 · 4 yrs 9 mos · On-site

Built and Scaled Real Estate Vertical from Ground Up
> Led the end-to-end development of the real estate vertical, laying the foundation for a scalable and sustainable business model.
Led the design, development, and maintenance of core modules
> Listing Search, Agent Console, Lead management, Apartment Maintenance Dues, Corporate Property Board, Email & SMS Notification, Apartment Management System.