Kanishka Khandelwal

CTO

London, England, United Kingdom13 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Proven track record in AI-driven projects.
Expertise in optimizing backend systems for high performance.
Strong leadership in managing cross-functional teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Fintech and E-commerce.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Machine LearningDistributed Systems

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithm DesignAlgorithmsAndroidAntBashCC#C++CVSComputer ScienceCore JavaData StructuresDebuggingDesign Patterns

About

Experienced Principal Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Experience in designing and developing distributed backend systems. Skilled in Computer Science, Optimizing Performance, C++, python and OOP. Strong program and project management professional with a B.E. focused in Computer science and engineering from Jadavpur University.

Experience

13 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr

Current Experience

Google

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Led the Google Ads Billing Setup which aims to provide frictionless and intuitive onboarding and setup experience to all advertisers across all of Google Ads buying platforms.
Led a team of 10+ Engineers, focussing and their growth and development.
Delivered $XXXM of cost savings by landing the highest priority project in the org.
Reduced advertiser friction by XX person years with careful evaluation and automation/optimization of advertiser workflows.
Collaborated with Payments, Risk, Sales among multiple PAs and xfn teams to deliver impact.
Strategized reduction in tickets volume by the use of AI (gemini) over the historical data.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2022 – Jun 2023 · 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Amazon

SDE 3

Jan 2022 – Jul 2022 · 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Working as a lead for a couple of teams.
1. Working to improve the delivery location prediction using Machine learning along. Leading a team which primarily works on this service which is a Tier 1 service with highest guarantees for availability as well support very high throughput (>10k TPM)
2. Playing the role of the team lead for a core Shipping platform team maintaining and enforcing the Sales and Quantity Limit restrictions for all transactions on the e-commerce space of Amazon.

D. e. shaw india private limited

5 roles

Principal Engineering Manager

Promoted

Dec 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Lead Tech

Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 · 11 mos

Working as an architect and implementing a real time data enrichment framework from scratch.

Project Leader / Manager

Promoted

Jul 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Worked in core trading team both on the financial domain and technology side. Worked on projects involving distributed systems, real-time processing, multi-threaded systems along.
Key technologies explored are C++, python along with middleware and serialization systems.
As a Project leader, manage a team of 4 working on infrastructure projects key to the Front Office trading.

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Promoted

Jul 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

Member Of Technical Staff

Mar 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

Adobe

MTS II

Jul 2013 – Mar 2014 · 8 mos · Noida Area, India

Software developer in the Acrobat team.
Developing Windows store apps for Metro Acrobat
Working as a member of the Acrobat Performance Team to look for ways to improve the launch time numbers .