Kajal Rekha Singh

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Engineering Manager at Elmstead Logistics · Distributed databases · Rust, performance engineering

Elmstead Logistics
Noida, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
7+ years experience
IIM Ahmedabad
English, Hindi
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Overview

Currently at Elmstead Logistics, where I lead distributed databases with a team of 54. Built the experimentation framework 29 product teams use to ship changes safely. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

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Skills
consensusRustperformance engineeringRaftRocksDBC++

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Elmstead Logistics · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Led the migration of 80 services to performance engineering.
    • Shipped 13 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
    • Grew the storage team from 3 to 32 engineers.
  2. Software Engineer
    Mar 2021 - Feb 2024
    Freshworks · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Wrote the RocksDB service that now handles 2 million requests a day.
  3. Software Engineer
    Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
    Cognizant · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 26 a week to 3.
    • Wrote the Raft service that now handles 11 million requests a day.

Projects

Write-up: distributed databases in practice
2026

A long-form guide to distributed databases for people starting out.

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Education

  1. IIM Ahmedabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2022 - 2024
  2. IIT Bombay
    B.Tech, Mathematics
    2015 - 2019

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