Kanishka Khaitan

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 12 years of experience in software engineering.
  • Proven track record in technical leadership and mentoring.
  • Expertise in system architecture and design best practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce architect with extensive experience in system design and technical leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipSystem ArchitectureSoftware Development

Other Skills

Algorithm DesignAlgorithmsApache KafkaArchitectural DesignCoaching & MentoringCoding StandardsCommunicationCompany wide tech best practicesCore-Architecture Design LeadershipCorrectness TestingData PipelinesData StructuresDesign DocumentsDistributed Caching SolutionDistributed Systems

About

Results-oriented Principal Software Engineer with over 12+ years of experience excelling in the development and leadership of architecture design for high-quality software solutions for platforms. Demonstrated expertise in enhancing system reliability and optimising operational costs. Proven track record as a strong team leader and mentor, consistently driving technical innovation, optimising performance, and ensuring code quality. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.

Experience

14 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Moveworks

Engineering

Jun 2024Present · 2 yrs

Vymo

2 roles

Principal Member Of Technical Staff

Promoted

Oct 2019Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • ● Sales Agent Task-Nudging System: Designed and developed a task-nudging
  • system for the sales agent, which had an adoption of 25% of nudges being actionable, collaborating closely with the PM to define success metrics and initiated several experiments to make nudges insightful.
  • ● User Behaviour Monitoring Initiative: Pitched the project to monitor user behaviour data, got buy-in, did the tool (Amplitude, Segment) selection. Got company wide adoption to be used as standard in product decisions.
  • ● Legacy Code Refactoring and Deployment: Refactored critical path of legacy code, addressing tight coupling with underlying databases, and executed successful deployment across locales with zero down time.
  • Company Wide Impact:
  • ● Core-Architecture Design Leadership - Played a key role as part of the three
  • member core design team , overseeing company-wide design and architecture, mentoring 12+ Senior TL/ & TLs
  • ● Performance reviews and calibration - Defined and implemented a comprehensive career ladder for engineering and QA, addressing calibration gaps and setting clear expectations. Actively participate in all the calibration meetings and give feedback to ensure we make data backed decisions and it scales up as the org grows.
  • ● Company wide tech best practices - Introduced the practice of tech documentation, design best practices, collaborated on documentation of software development workflows, monitoring how-tos for each stack (team size-2)
Sales Agent Task-Nudging SystemUser Behaviour Monitoring InitiativeLegacy Code Refactoring and DeploymentCore-Architecture Design LeadershipPerformance reviews and calibrationCompany wide tech best practices+2

Tech lead

Nov 2017Oct 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • ● Self-Serve Data Warehouse for BI: Designed end-to-end warehouse using Vertica, catering to client personas with standard analytics dashboards.
  • ● Designed and implemented a distributed caching solution (using Aerospike) to bring down the overall latency of the homepage which on an average was 500 ms to 40ms.
Self-Serve Data Warehouse for BIDistributed Caching SolutionSystem Architecture

Parag’s social enterprise initiative, with fise tata trust.

Technical consultant

Feb 2017Jul 2017 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Kitablet is an e-Library for children from grade 1-8 to encourage early readers and help them think and reflect in an enjoyable and meaningful manner.
  • Volunteered to work as technical consultant for Kitablet. Reviewed the architecture of the project to ensure scalability, robustness and maintainability of the software.

Amazon

2 roles

Software Engineer- II @Amazon Pay

Promoted

Apr 2012Aug 2016 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Pay with Amazon(PwA) is a fast, easy and secure way to pay online and on mobile. The role required to work with the Product and Technical Program Manager to finalise the requirements, work on the design and lead the team to the deliverable.
  • ● Merchant Registration Portal: Managed an eight-person team to create a simplified, customizable merchant registration portal for third-party merchants at PwA. Collaborated on end-to-end product design and development.
  • ● Multi-Language Features for International Launches: Led a team of four in designing and developing multi-language features for PwA's rapid launches in European countries. Collaborated with nine geographically dispersed teams.
  • ● PwA Development: Built the initial version of the developer API for PwA, actively participating in design discussions for consistency and long-term scalability.
  • ● Marketplace Payments Integration:Led a two-person team in introducing marketplace payments, facilitating multiple vendors' participation. Managed key design and development tasks.
Merchant Registration PortalMulti-Language FeaturesMarketplace Payments IntegrationSoftware Development

Software Engineer I @Retail International/Category Expansion

Jun 2010Mar 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Worked on Amazon Category Expansion initiatives, introducing new product
  • categories globally on Amazon.com. Led successful retail business launch in Spain and optimised workflows across North America, Europe, and Asia, reducing manual efforts and accelerating launch pace.

Picsquare

Intern

May 2009Nov 2009 · 6 mos

  • PROJECT
  • Development:-
  • Renderman: Developed a generic framework from scratch that renders the final product images from a given set customization options given by customers. These final images are used at picsquare.com to create various products that picsquare requires for the production flow
  • Preview Generation Tool: Developed a tool to generate the preview of user customized products in real time to enable user to view an image close to the final product to be delivered at his/her doorstep. This tool is currently being used for testing purpose only.
  • Automation: automated the image correction using Adobe Photoshop
  • Testing:-
  • Performance testing: automated the testing with the help of Apache Jmeter to ensure the images are delivered for the preview within the target time.
  • Correctness testing: automated the testing to ensure the correctness of the Renderman and Preview generation tool.
RendermanPreview Generation ToolPerformance TestingCorrectness Testing

Education

Savitribai Phule Pune University

M.C.A. — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2010

Banaras Hindu University

B.Sc. — Mathematics

Jan 2004Jan 2007

St, John's School, Marhauli

Jan 1989Jan 2003

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