Kavin Parekh

Associate Partner

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led a 9-member team in AI-driven personalization.
  • Developed high-performance systems with sub-100 ms latency.
  • Pioneered innovative travel planning solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a MarTech and Data Engineering expert with a focus on AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentData EngineeringAi DevelopmentData Analysis

Other Skills

ScalaJavaPythonRedisAerospikeRocksDBSparkKafkaS3DeltaAvroDockerReactJSDjangoNeo4J

About

Leading a 9-member team across backend, data, and applied AI to build large-scale personalisation systems that power recommendations, MarTech decisioning, and emerging agentic travel experiences. Strong focus on technical depth and engineering rigor: careful translation of research ideas into production systems, deep ownership of distributed systems , technical and business metric monitoring, relevance/regression testing, data quality and production excellence.

Experience

Makemytrip

4 roles

Associate Director

Promoted

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Leading a 9-member team across backend, data, and applied AI to build large-scale personalisation systems that power recommendations, MarTech decisioning, and emerging agentic travel experiences.
  • Own and scaled the Experience Engine for cross-sell and recommendations across high-traffic surfaces such as home, funnel, and post-booking journeys, serving hundreds of millions of requests with sub-100 ms P99 latency. Drive both the platform architecture and the business-facing decisioning capabilities.
  • Led the team building an agentic AI Trip Planner that generates 1-click bookable itineraries under real-world cost, time, and distance constraints, combining orchestration and ranking to achieve 70%+ successful delivery.
  • Led the orchestration brain for ContextOS — the execution layer for agentic workflows, responsible for agent planning, memory, execution state management, etc. Delivered the first production use case through an Audience Agent that enables marketing teams to create target audiences using natural language,
  • Lead the engineering charter for MarTech and user decisioning platforms powering millions of personalised triggers per day, including retargeting, cross-sell, fare-drop alerts, and lifecycle engagement use cases.
  • Own the org-wide Feature Store and real-time data APIs that serve personalisation use cases at more than billions of requests per day with sub-70 ms P99 latency, creating a common foundation for reusable features, online inference, and high-scale decisioning.
  • Strong focus on technical depth and engineering rigor: careful translation of research ideas into production systems, deep ownership of distributed systems , technical and business metric monitoring, relevance/regression testing, data quality and production excellence.
  • Stack: Scala, Java, Python, Redis, Aerospike, RocksDB, Spark, Kafka, S3, Delta, Avro, Docker, ReactJS.
ScalaJavaPythonRedisAerospikeRocksDB+9

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2023Feb 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

Principal Software Engineer

Apr 2021Mar 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

Lead Software Engineer

Dec 2019Apr 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Amazon

2 roles

SDE 2

Promoted

Apr 2017Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Designed and developed integrations of multiple vendors for brand safety and other contextual targeting into the Amazon demand side advertising platform.

SDE

Nov 2015Apr 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Designed and developed multiple components of ContX - a contextual recommending pipeline for offsite advertising of products sold on amazon.

Healthkart.com

Software Engineer (Analytics & Marketing)

May 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Developed an end-to-end customer segmentation tool . Segments can be created on the basis of customer behaviour and transaction history. Technologies used - Django, Neo4J,Vertica, Pentaho
  • Developed a reporting tool using django to fulfil first level business requirements.

Infibeam.com

Software Developer

Jun 2012Apr 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Developed a widget to recommend accessories using solr on the product detail page of a mobile phone.
  • Developed a dashboard using d3.js to give a bird's view of business operations.
  • Developed several tools to assist in content management.

Education

Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information and Communication Technology

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Dalmia Public School

Jan 1996Jan 2008

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