Arjun Khanna

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CTO at Northwind Learning · Prometheus, incident response

Northwind Learning
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
IIT Madras
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Overview

Currently at Northwind Learning, where I lead cloud infrastructure with a team of 36. Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 453ms to 121ms. Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 38% in two quarters. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

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Skills
GoPrometheusKubernetesincident response
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6 backend engineer roles open on the infrastructure team in Pune

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
₹24-55 LPA
Team
Infrastructure, 12 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with Prometheus Production experience with Kubernetes Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp ₹28-80 LPA. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Pune, Indiagoprometheusincident response
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Experience

  1. CTO
    Jan 2025 - Present
    Northwind Learning · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 6.
    • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 59 million requests a day.
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 37 a week to 4.
  2. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Nov 2022 - Nov 2024
    Meesho · 2 yr · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Led the migration of 18 services to Go.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
    Morgan Stanley · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Sit on 7 boards.
    • Led or co-led 32 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2015 - Dec 2018
    Accenture · 3 yr · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Led the migration of 47 services to Go.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Sep 2014 - Dec 2015
    Bosch · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Previously an operator for 10 years before investing.

Projects

Side project: a recipe search engine
2026

Built with Prometheus and Kubernetes. 2472 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. IIT Madras
    B.Tech, Mathematics
    1995 - 1999

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