Ravi Kant

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in distributed technologies and cloud computing.
Led initiatives to enhance customer-facing iCloud products.
Mentored team members, fostering growth and technical expertise.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems expert with a strong focus on E-commerce and Software Development.

Contact

raviworks25@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsSoftware Development

Other Skills

AWSAWS CloudFormationAWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)AWS LambdaAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon CloudWatchAmazon DynamodbAmazon EBSAmazon EC2Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Amazon S3Amazon VPCAmazon Web Services (AWS)Ansible

About

I am crazy about Distributed tech and its paradigms. Love to explore the space and Up for a discussion on the same anytime. • I currently work on customer facing products in the iCloud space. Exploring the space and leading a bunch of initiatives to make the apps better. Tech- Go, Python, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Kafka, AWS, GCP • Actively involved in mentoring; grooming mentees about various aspects - from team's tech architecture to reviewing code/work, assisting in their future career growth aspirations thereby ensuring their absorption in the team and helping in their growth. • At Amazon I was working for a high throughput (65M+ TPS), low latency (under 5 ms) Storage and Computation platform powering the retail business - the platform is offered as a hosted service, to power Amazon’s retail and digital businesses, which is used by more than 400 teams across Amazon for high performance storage, caching, and new business object derivation services. Tech involved - Java, Python, AWS(IAM, S3, EC2, Dynamo, VPC, SQS, SNS, Lambda and few others), Distributed KV store. • Earlier worked in the retail promotions team driving platform enhancement for internal and external tools for promotion creation ranging from daily price discounts up to Black Friday Deals and providing resolutions for an enriching experience involving technologies of Java, AWS, SQL and Unix • Prior to that, I worked as a consultant on Banking product and on Single Sign-on web portal hosting about 285 applications for the end users. Tech involved - Core Java, Web services

Experience

13 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

1 yr

Current Experience

Salesforce

Engineering Lead

Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Apple

Sr. Engineer - Cloud

Apr 2022 – May 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

I worked on customer facing products in the iCloud space. Exploring the space and leading a bunch of initiatives to make the apps better.
Tech- Golang, Python, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Kafka, AWS, GCP, Redis

GolangPythonCassandraPostgreSQLKubernetesSplunk+8

Amazon

Sr. System Development Engineer

Feb 2016 – Apr 2022 · 6 yrs 2 mos

I worked on design, development of features, tools and automations for the Storage and Computation platform which involves deep dive on things and easing out the bottlenecks on the platform. The platform was built atop a distributed hash table and provided a distributed storage solution.
I worked on identifying opportunities for making service more reliable, resilient and working on the plan & implementation/development of features that resolves the underlying issues with the platform
A part of the job also included identifying the factors and levels of scalability and type of infrastructure needed and perform end to end service and system readiness activity for peak events and to handle the peak events with complete ownership
I worked on tasks that spanned across teams and involves interaction with senior leadership(Sr. Managers & Directors) about identifying opportunities, setting up goals and evaluate progress measures
I have also been actively involved in mentoring team members about team's tech architecture for knowledge and development and also on their future career aspirations thereby ensuring their absorption in the organisation and helping in their growth. I oversee and review their work, provide constructive feedback, help them to discuss out their blockers / issues and provide implementable solutions
Prior to this team, I worked as an Engineer in the retail promotions team in Amazon, driving platform enhancement for internal and external tools for promotion creation ranging from daily price discounts up to Black Friday Deals and providing resolutions for an enriching experience

JavaPythonAWSDistributed KV storeCloud ComputingDistributed Systems

Oracle in financial services

Technical Consultant

Jan 2015 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

I worked as a consultant on the company’s product - Flexcube, which caters to different Banks, to serve several technical requirements with the help of JAVA and Web Services
Oracle Web Logic server was used to install the web service and test it and Java packages and functions were used to implement and develop the solutions

Core JavaWeb servicesSoftware Development

Accenture services pvt. ltd

Software Engineering

Jan 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

Java/J2EE Developer role in the team hereby developing an online Portal through which we provide Single Sign-on functionality to about 285 applications to the end users.
The single sign on functionality is applied with the help of HttpSession, cookies etc.
Have worked on several technologies - Core Java (OOPS concepts, Multithreading, Collections, JDBC coding ), J2EE, UNIX, Web Services, shell, javascript, in the project.
The project environment is agile, where daily scrum meetings / calls are involved. I have worked on stringent timelines to close the daily tasks and communicating it to the team members across the globe.

Core JavaJ2EEUNIXWeb ServicesJavaScriptSoftware Development