Kamal Soni

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Gurgaon, Haryana, India10 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a team of 100 engineers across multiple geographies.
Implemented a competency framework for career growth.
Achieved compliance with cybersecurity standards.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with a focus on SaaS and cybersecurity.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementOptimizationSecurityScalabilityApi SecurityDatabase OptimizationPerformance ManagementPerformance ImprovementApplication ArchitectureAnalytics Tools Development

Other Skills

C++JavaScriptRuby on RailsRedisSidekiqBack-End Web DevelopmentRSpecRubyGitPerformanceMulti-cloud systemsAuthorization managementApplication layer optimizationTimesheet managementIntegration with government portals

Experience

10 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Jisr i جسر

4 roles

Head of Engineering

Promoted

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

➢ At Jisr, I am leading a team of ~100 engineers, which is divided across 14 odd squads.
➢ Collaborated with C-level leadership on defining engineering OKRs tied to product roadmap and business priorities.
➢ Played a key role in scaling the team from X to 100+ engineers, across multiple geographies including Egypt and Yemen.
➢ Introduced a competency framework and bi-annual performance review process to formalize engineering career growth.
➢ Influenced hiring strategy and team structures to optimize for delivery speed and retention.
➢ Partnered with Product and Design teams to define quarterly delivery goals and architectural direction.
➢ Worked on making Jisr compliant with Essential Cybersecurity Controls defined by the National CyberSecurity Authority of Saudi Arabia.

Engineering ManagementOptimizationC++JavaScriptRuby on RailsRedis+5

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

➢ My focus other than product development was mainly on security, scalability, performance, and ease of management of our multi-cloud system.
➢ Worked on making Jisr compliant with Essential Cybersecurity Controls defined by the National CyberSecurity Authority of Saudi Arabia.
➢ Worked constantly with CxOs of the company to plan the roadmap and handle the engineering execution.

SecurityScalabilityPerformanceMulti-cloud systems

Lead Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

➢ Lead a team of ~8 engineers to solve majority of critical problems in the system ex. API security and flexible authorisation management system for our clients.
➢ Optimised database & application layer, And now same infrastructure is able to handle ~15-20X load.
➢ Enabled team members to take next level responsibilities.
➢ Introduced good practices in the team which ensures quality or production releases and resolve client queries within SLA.
➢ Introduced & Implemented Subscription model.

API securityAuthorization managementDatabase optimizationApplication layer optimization

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr

➢ Worked As Individual coordinator to enhance and stabilise existing flows.
➢ Implemented Performance and Review (OKR) management system.
➢ Designed & Implement timesheet management system and multiple integration with some of Saudi's government portals,

Performance managementTimesheet managementIntegration with government portals

Tata 1mg

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2018 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

➢ Re-engineered existing frontend/backend applications to improve the performance and scalability of the applications
➢ Implemented Experiment based subscription model which increased new subscribers by ~10X also reduced churn of existing subscribers.
➢ Engaged in designing and maintaining the application architecture, development and delivery of critical products of 1mg
➢ Implemented auto scaling infrastructure on AWS for ROR applications with Capistrano deployment.
➢ Utilised AWS services like SQS, Lambda to improve the performance of the applications.
➢ Integrated monitoring and logging tools like New Relic, DataDog, Kibana, Cloudwatch etc. with ROR applications.
➢ Tuned application performance by performing load test with 10x traffic using JMeter.
➢ Responsible for writing Rspec and high quality documentation for the applications.
➢ Mentoring and training new joiners