Kaustav Chakravorty

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led DBaaS product portfolio for Flipkart's cloud platform.
Pioneered large-scale adoption of TiDB on Kubernetes.
Architected microservices for critical Fintech products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS architect specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed DatabasesKubernetesScalable ArchitectureBack-end Web Development

Other Skills

High Availability ArchitectureTiDBDistributed Systems

About

I am a Principal Software Architect with ~20 years of experience in building highly scalable, reliable, distributed backend systems. I have expertise in distributed databases, cloud-native architectures, microservices, and architecting for multi-DC and hybrid cloud environments. As part of Flipkart's Cloud Platforms Group, I have been at the forefront of a massive, company-wide cloud infrastructure transformation journey. From IaaS centric infrastructure where each team would manually deploy and manage their software, we moved to a cloud native infrastructure with Kubernetes and Managed Services at its core. I led development of the DBaaS portfolio of products which consisted of Distributed SQL, Traditional SQL, In-Memory and Wide-Column databases. Collectively, they now serve 1500+ internal clients, including the some of the most critical and demanding services. The widespread adoption of the DBaaS services has improved developer productivity, increased reliability, and have helped enforce best practices and compliance requirements across the company.

Experience

19 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

9 mos

Current Experience

Atlassian

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Jul 2025 – Present · 9 mos

Divyam.ai

Founding Team Member

Mar 2025 – Jul 2025 · 4 mos

Flipkart

4 roles

Principal Software Architect

Oct 2024 – Mar 2025 · 5 mos

Leading the DBaaS product portfolio for Flipkart’s internal cloud platform
Leading the efforts to define the architecture for stateful microservices with active-active data centers. The goal is to provide strategic rebalancing and bursting capability, enabling Flipkart to leverage its multi-DC and hybrid cloud investments to enhance its infrastructure agility and resilience posture.

High Availability ArchitectureKubernetesDistributed DatabasesScalable ArchitectureTiDBDistributed Systems

Senior Software Architect

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs

I own the DBaaS product portfolio for Flipkart’s internal cloud platform, consisting of four database products - Distributed SQL, Traditional SQL, In-Memory DB, Wide-Column DB. They power 1500+ services with a data footprint of multiple petabytes.
Built the Distributed SQL DBaaS product from scratch. This was one of the early large-scale adoptions of TiDB (starting in 2020), and among the first to run TiDB on Kubernetes. Currently the product is powering 75+ critical use cases at Flipkart, with 130TB+ data footprint.
Built the In-Memory DB DBaaS product from scratch. This is among first production deployments of Aerospike on Kubernetes in the world, and one of the largest deployments of Aerospike in India. Currently it serves 300+ critical use cases at Flipkart, and has scaled up to 95 million requests per second.
Led the efforts to modernize the Traditional SQL DBaaS product. This involved developing a custom operator to run MySQL on Kubernetes, and using MySQL group replication.

High Availability ArchitectureKubernetesDistributed DatabasesScalable ArchitectureTiDBDistributed Systems

Software Architect

Promoted

Aug 2017 – Sep 2021 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Founding member of Flipkart’s Fintech team, architecting the microservices that now power products like Buy Now Pay Later.

High Availability ArchitectureBack-End Web DevelopmentScalable Architecture

Software Engineer

Feb 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Helped build Ping, a now-discontinued consumer-to-consumer chat system integrated into Flipkart’s shopping app.

High Availability ArchitectureBack-End Web DevelopmentScalable Architecture

Juniper networks

Software Engineer

Nov 2007 – Feb 2015 · 7 yrs 3 mos

Developed fault-tolerant storage solutions, enabling Juniper’s routers to self-recover from file system corruptions. Reduced failures and product returns significantly, earning the Excellence Star Award.
Optimized memory management for Juniper’s SRX product family, enabling the mapping of a large amount of device memory within the constrained 2GB virtual memory space on the MIPS32 processor architecture. This enabled the Packet Forwarding Engine to work with more modern hardware accelerators. This improved feature scalability and retained the competitive edge.
Designed & implemented control plane software for Power over Ethernet (PoE) in Juniper’s SRX product line.