Dhaval Ketan Shah

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CTO at Nectar Cloud · Platform engineering

Nectar Cloud
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
NIT Warangal
English, Hindi, Kannada
Open to workHiring
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Overview

I've spent 18 years on platform engineering - first at Bajaj Finserv, now at Nectar Cloud. Shipped 8 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback. Grew the developer platform team from 5 to 39 engineers. Before that: BigBasket and McKinsey & Company. Most at home with Backstage and CI/CD. Marathoner (8 so far).

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in platform engineering
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Questions about platform engineering
  • Second opinions on CI/CD decisions
  • Working sessions on Backstage
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Best reached early in the week

Skills
BackstageobservabilityCI/CDKubernetes
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Platform Engineer in creator tools, Bengaluru or hybrid

Target roles
Platform Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Consumer apps, Healthtech
Work mode
Remote
Available
Immediately
Work authorization
Indian citizen, open to relocating
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on Kubernetes with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

18 years in platform engineering. Strongest at CI/CD and observability. Can start in about six weeks.

Bengaluru, Indiabackstagekubernetesci/cd
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HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Hiring a founding mobile engineer for the developer platform team - Bengaluru

Role
Founding mobile engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
₹50-55 LPA
Team
Developer platform, 16 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with CI/CD Production experience with Kubernetes Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp ₹18-73 LPA. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Bengaluru, Indiaobservabilitykubernetesbackstage
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Experience

  1. CTO
    Oct 2022 - Present
    Nectar Cloud · 4 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 28 a week to 4.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 894ms to 144ms.
    • Led the migration of 31 services to Kubernetes.
  2. Senior Platform Engineer
    Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
    BigBasket · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Grew the developer platform team from 5 to 32 engineers.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Nov 2015 - Jan 2019
    McKinsey & Company · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped 16 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
  4. Senior Platform Engineer
    Dec 2013 - Nov 2015
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 565ms to 78ms.
  5. Platform Engineer
    May 2012 - Dec 2013
    Bajaj Finserv · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 6.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 40% in two quarters.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from developer platform
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling platform engineering.

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Education

  1. NIT Warangal
    B.Tech, Computer Engineering
    2004 - 2008

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