Kiran Polavarapu

Co-Founder

Dublin, California, United States22 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-Founder of a fintech startup focused on blockchain.
Expert in performance engineering and automation frameworks.
Strong leadership in engineering and technical architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on performance engineering and blockchain technologies.

Contact

kiran@mesta.xyz LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

BlockchainFintechPerformance EngineeringJava

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AutomationC++Cross-border TransactionsDistributed SystemsDocker SwarmFull SDLCHadoopJMeterJavaScriptKubernetesLinuxLoadRunnerMySQL

About

🚀 Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Mesta—a seed-stage fintech company reinventing cross-border payments with blockchain and stablecoins. Backed by VC investors, we’re on a mission to reshape global finance. 📢 We’re Hiring! Looking for our first US-based Software Engineer to join the core team. If you’re an engineer passionate about blockchain, fintech innovation, and making a global impact, let’s connect. 👉 Apply now: https://www.mesta.xyz/careers or DM me directly.

Experience

22 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Mesta

Co-Founder and Head of Engineering

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Currently hiring our first US Engineer! Passionate about blockchain fintech? Reach out to me directly or apply via our LinkedIn job posting.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Distributed SystemsFull SDLCAgile MethodologiesWeb ApplicationsBlockchain+1

Bill

Staff Performance Engineer

May 2023 – Dec 2023 · 7 mos · United States

Salesforce.com

Lead Performance Engineer

Nov 2010 – Oct 2023 · 12 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco, CA · On-site

Participate and lead architecture discussions with UI Architects and Developers.
Provide technical leadership and training for UI coding principles, performance best practices, performance profiling tools and techniques.
Design and implement scalable and secure automation frameworks for performance optimization and monitoring.
Lead RCA and deep-dive profiling of critical customer performance issues.
Report daily/weekly performance and usability metrics across various features and clouds.
Develop performance monitoring frameworks that work across testing and production.
Design and implement performance, scalability, reliability and load tests using industry standard tools and custom developed software written in Java.

JavaPerformance TuningWeb ApplicationsPerformance TestingKubernetesJavaScript+11

Slac national accelerator laboratory

Lead Web Application Architect/Developer

Jul 2007 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Implement SOA web applications on top of PeopleSoft Financials and Human Resources
Provide technical and architectural leadership in Web Application Scalability and Performance Optimization, Webservices and other Web 2.0 technologies

Test AutomationLoadRunnerJMeter

Stanford university

Business Application Developer

Jan 2006 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos

Developed/Maintained several business applications for internal use and lead Integration project with PeopleSoft Financials.

Predictionlogic, inc

2 roles

Consultant

Promoted

Jun 2005 – Dec 2005 · 6 mos

- ASP.NET/AJAX/C#/SQL Server 2005 based Natural Language Market Sentiment Analysis system. (RIA with real time quotes, sentiments)

Software Developer

Jun 2005 – Dec 2005 · 6 mos

Coas, oregon state university

Summer Intern

Jun 2004 – Sep 2004 · 3 mos

Developed Traceability system for Fisheries using C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server.

Oregon state university

2 roles

Research Assistant, EECS

Promoted

Jan 2004 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 5 mos

Worked with Dr.Alan Fern and Dr.David G Ullman on developing inter issue data
structures for Intelligent Decision Management Environment (A NASA funded project).