Kanika Deepika Rana

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CTO at Orchard Labs · RTOS, C

Orchard Labs
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
NIT Surathkal
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Overview

CTO at Orchard Labs, focused on embedded systems. Built the experimentation framework 20 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Visa and Paytm. Chess on lunch breaks.

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Skills
Android performanceRTOSARM Cortex-Membedded LinuxC
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Looking for a security engineer who has worked on ARM Cortex-M at scale

Role
Security engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
₹50-55 LPA
Team
Firmware, 9 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with Android performance Production experience with embedded Linux Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp ₹24-73 LPA. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. CTO
    Jan 2023 - Present
    Orchard Labs · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 32 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 34 a week to 4.
    • Led the migration of 76 services to embedded Linux.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
    Visa · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 882ms to 56ms.
    • Moved 82% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
    Paytm · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Wrote the Android performance service that now handles 78 million requests a day.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2016 - Jan 2019
    Qualcomm · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Grew the firmware team from 5 to 14 engineers.
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 354ms to 114ms.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Jun 2014 - Jul 2016
    EY · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Backed 22 founders at pre-seed and seed.

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Education

  1. NIT Surathkal
    B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
    1999 - 2003

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