Kavya Negi

Overview

I've spent 18 years on distributed databases - first at Airtel, now at Loom Works. Moved 85% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Most at home with performance engineering and Raft. I write a small newsletter about distributed databases.

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Mar 2025 - Present
   Loom Works · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Moved 79% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 689ms to 70ms.
   • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 23 a week to 3.
2. Director of Engineering

   Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
   Philips · 2 yr · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 41 minutes to under 4.
   • Shipped 27 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
3. Director of Engineering

   Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
   Bosch · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 28 a week to 2.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 4.
4. Engineering Manager

   Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
   McKinsey & Company · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 33% in two quarters.
   • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 508ms to 137ms.
5. Staff Software Engineer

   May 2015 - Aug 2018
   Airtel · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Led the migration of 13 services to RocksDB.
   • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.

Projects

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Education

1. BITS Pilani

   B.E., Computer Engineering
   2004 - 2008