Arvind Kalyanakrishnan

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led multiple engineering teams in AI and platform development.
Expert in building scalable systems from scratch.
Strong background in both B2C and B2B tech environments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend and Infrastructure Engineer with strong expertise in AI and SaaS platforms.

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Skills

Core Skills

Platform EngineeringApi DevelopmentPlatform DevelopmentSystem ArchitectureSystem DevelopmentData Engineering

Other Skills

API documentationmicroservicesterraformk8sazure infra managementapi gwwafbastionfirewallsnat gwcdndefender for cloudprometheusgrafanaUser Authorization platform

About

Around a decade of experience on a breadth of domains such as Data, Backend, and SRE / Infra / Platform. Have worked in 0-1 setups (Swiggy, Supr, Sarvam), as well as 1-10 and 10-100 setup (Swiggy). Enjoyed working and solving problems in B2C (Food Tech, Grocery Tech) as well as B2B (SaaS) companies. Have exposure working with e-commerce (demand side & supply side) & AI domains. Have experience leading teams of engineers, IC contribution (code, design, architecture), setting up / improving team processes, coaching & mentorship etc.

Experience

9 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Sarvam ai

Technology Lead

Jun 2024 – Feb 2025 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

AI 1.0
Leading multiple teams at Sarvam
Leading a team that owns the Sarvam Model API Platform, API documentation (openapi, mintlify) , microservices (speech, translation), API metering, API observability.
Leading a team that builds shared platform-components & SDKs - that handle metering, billing, payments, batch-job execution, cloud-marketplace integrations which are leveraged by other teams building AI model APIs, AI voice agents, Law.
Also leading a team that does platform engineering/SRE/DevOps stuff:
terraform, k8s, azure infra management
api gw, waf, bastion, firewalls, nat gw, cdn, defender for cloud, prometheus, grafana etc to name a few
implementing policy controls across the stack to achieve security & compliance - SoC2, ISO27001, Cloud Security benchmarks (MCSB).
setting up & incorporating best practices on areas like IAM, Path to Prod, Observability
Apart from this, I also frequently provide guidance to engineers across the company on technical architecture, design, tech stack choices, mentorship, project planning

API documentationmicroservicesterraformk8sazure infra managementapi gw+10

Swiggy

SDE IV

Nov 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Internal transfer within larger Swiggy Org from Supr Daily after the rebranding to InsanelyGood
Conceived, Designed, and Implemented User Authorization platform across Swiggy
Led team to build a platform to quickly boostrap dashboards (on top of Retool) for any new use-cases with AuthN/Z out of the box.
Part of Loyalty team designing, building and enhancing systems that manage Swiggy One membership

User Authorization platformRetoolSwiggy One membershipPlatform Development

Supr daily

2 roles

Tech Lead (SDE IV)

Nov 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs

Architect for rebranding Supr Daily app to InsanelyGood. As a part of this, introduced multiple new components to improve performance of the BFF layer ( API Gateway, Presentation Layer, Widget system, etc.) to support the new app experience.
Designed, Built, and scaled entire 0-1 journey of Warehouse Management System used by Supr for fulfilment operations from scratch. Wrote 15k+ LoC. Also led team of 2-3 engineers.
Actively involved in design, architecture and development of multiple big features by scoping into iterative product releases, providing milestone views, task breakdown & estimates, and parallelizing the execution.
Involved in sprint planning and prioritization, tech backlog grooming, driving effort estimation discussions and publishing timelines to biz. stakeholders
Involved in identifying and setting up relevant processes in the team like on-call, SDLC practices like unit, integration testing by getting alignment from all stakeholders, defining output metrics, tracking & improving the processes
Setting up best practices by publishing documentation for requirements gathering, design, testing etc.
Driving tech. operational excellence initiative of two systems to ensure reliability, scalability, and availability by working closely with other engineers.
Actively involved in code reviews, design reviews, coaching & mentoring engineers.
Actively involved in setting up & improving the hiring process with the manager, Have taken 100+ interviews of varying types like Machine Coding, DS Algo, HLDs. Also helped define the hiring process for Machine Coding rounds including problem statements, rubrics, output metrics etc.

API GatewayWarehouse Management SystemBFF layerSystem Architecture

Staff Software Engineer (SDE III)

May 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

2.0
Designed, Built, and scaled entire 0-1 journey of Warehouse Management System used by Supr for fulfilment operations from scratch
Designed, Built the 0-1 journey of Supply Chain System (middle mile delivery, last mile delivery) used by Supr

Supply Chain SystemSystem Development

Swiggy

2 roles

SDE II

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

Fulfilment Team
Involved in breaking legacy Monolith and building components, re-architecting the Order Fulfilment System to a Workflow Platform & Microservices architecture
Designed and led the development of Telephony Platform which is used by other teams for IVR use-cases
Developed an MVEL Rules based Action Platform which is used to take automated actions on some of the fulfillment use-cases

Order Fulfilment SystemTelephony PlatformMVEL Rules based Action PlatformSystem Architecture

SDE I

Jun 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos

Changing the way India eats!
Being one of the early engineers (24th out of 500+ now) , I got an opportunity to work on interesting problems in multiple teams:
Data Platform
Built and scaled Swiggy's first data platform from scratch
Internal analytics app in Android used by Operations, Business, and Investors
Service for response-time-critical analytics use-cases like Fraud Detection, Cross Selling, Recommendations and so on ( < 50 ms)
Spark Jobs, Dashboards and more.
Search & Discovery
Wrote few core modules like availability, enrichment for backend
Built an end-to-end pipeline for propagating changes from other systems like CMS to update the search index in NRT
Multiple backend features
Other Platform Services
Built first version of Communication engine for sending push notifications, emails and SMS
Overall, had a lot of fun! :)