Karan Kumar — CEO
Experienced Technical Lead with 7+ years of experience designing scalable, resilient systems using Golang, PHP, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, and cloud-native tools. At Shiprocket, led the backend for SR Direct, handling 50K+ AWBs/day and 500K+ tracking events. Built the SR Promise microservice using Golang with a plug-and-play SLA architecture, reducing latency by 60% and infra cost by 30% through a hybrid MySQL + precompute model. Introduced a circuit breaker pattern across courier integrations, reducing AWB assignment failures by 85% and improving platform stability. At SHL, architected the candidate-job recommendation engine by metadata-driven precompute pipeline, enabling faster, ML-ready recommendations. Known for balancing delivery speed with architectural integrity, mentoring engineers, and driving systems thinking across teams. Passionate about building performant APIs, clean code, and platform-level scalability.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong backend development skills.
Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Experience: 8 yrs
Skills
- Scalability
- Strategic Planning
- Operational Excellence
- Microservices
- Software Development
- React.js
- Nodejs
Career Highlights
- Led backend for SR Direct, handling 50K+ AWBs/day.
- Reduced latency by 60% and infra cost by 30%.
- Mentored engineers and drove systems thinking across teams.
Work Experience
SHL
Technical Lead (2 yrs 10 mos)
Shiprocket
Software Engineer (2 yrs 3 mos)
Talentica Software
Software Engineer II (1 yr)
Real Time Data Services
Software Developer (1 yr 11 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Technology at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana