Kinjal Riddhi Salunkhe

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Engineering Manager at Accenture · Distributed databases · RocksDB, Raft

Accenture
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
IIT Guwahati
English, Hindi, Marathi
Co-founder
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Overview

Based in Pune. I lead distributed databases at Accenture. Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion. Reduced cloud spend on storage by 24% in two quarters. Most at home with Rust and Iceberg. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Questions about distributed databases
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Requests to fix your code for free

Best reached early in the week

Skills
Icebergperformance engineeringRocksDBRustRaftC++consensus
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a design-minded co-founder for pharmacy logistics for independent clinics

The idea
Pharmacy logistics for independent clinics
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
15 years in distributed databases
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Pune or remote

I bring 13 years of distributed databases (currently Accenture). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Have a working prototype and design partners.

Pune, India · remote OKraftc++performance engineering
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2024 - Present
    Accenture · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 25% in two quarters.
    • Grew the storage team from 5 to 21 engineers.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 45 minutes to under 6.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Jun 2022 - Apr 2024
    Oracle · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 24% in two quarters.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
    MakeMyTrip · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Moved 89% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 38 a week to 3.
  4. Software Engineer
    Aug 2015 - Jan 2019
    Flipkart · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 21% in two quarters.
  5. Software Engineer
    Jun 2014 - Aug 2015
    Swiggy · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 42 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 4.

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Education

  1. IIT Guwahati
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2009 - 2013

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