Kavya Ramya Gopalan

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Principal Engineer at Lakemont Solutions | ex-Visa

Lakemont Solutions
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
Christ University
English, Hindi, Kannada
Open to work
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Overview

15 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Lakemont Solutions, where I work on the developer platform team. Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 361ms to 115ms. Grew the developer platform team from 4 to 37 engineers. Board member at a local non-profit.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in B2B SaaS
  • Questions about B2B SaaS
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Fund-of-funds solicitations
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Decks without a clear ask

Best reached early in the week

Skills
BazelKubernetesservice meshGoobservability
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Open to Platform Engineer roles at Series A proptech companies

Target roles
Platform Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
E-commerce, Healthtech
Work mode
Remote
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Indian citizen, open to relocating
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series B) where B2B SaaS is core to the product.
Not interested in
Agencies and outsourcing firms

15 years in platform engineering. Strongest at observability and Kubernetes. Serving notice now.

Bengaluru, Indiakubernetesgoobservability
Open

Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    May 2023 - Present
    Lakemont Solutions · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
    • Backed 27 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 4 boards.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2021 - May 2023
    Visa · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped 29 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
    • Led the migration of 43 services to Kubernetes.
  3. Platform Engineer
    Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
    Axis Bank · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Wrote the observability service that now handles 62 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 2.
  4. Senior Platform Engineer
    Jan 2016 - Oct 2019
    Postman · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped 27 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
    • Led the migration of 77 services to service mesh.
  5. Platform Engineer
    Jun 2012 - Jan 2016
    KPMG · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Wrote the Go service that now handles 26 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 2.

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Education

  1. Christ University
    BBA, Computer Science
    2006 - 2010

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