Kishore Kannan

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Director of Engineering at Cisco | ex-Razorpay

Cisco
Noida, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
15+ years experience
SRM Institute of Science and Technology
English, Hindi
Co-founder
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Overview

22 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Cisco, where I lead the storage team. Shipped 13 launches on the storage team without a rollback. Before that: Razorpay and Kotak Mahindra Bank. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

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Skills
C++RustconsensusRaftNext.jsperformance engineering
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need an operations co-founder: freight matching in the US

The idea
Need an operations co-founder: freight matching in the US
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
9 years in distributed databases
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Noida or remote

I bring 22 years of distributed databases (currently Cisco). Ideally you've run operations in Africa. Full-time from day one.

Noida, Indiac++performance engineeringrust
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Jul 2023 - Present
    Cisco · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 21% in two quarters.
    • Built the experimentation framework 18 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Software Engineer
    Feb 2020 - Jul 2023
    Razorpay · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 475ms to 157ms.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2017 - Feb 2020
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Shipped 14 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
    • Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
  4. Staff Software Engineer
    Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
    Capgemini · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 26 minutes to under 5.
    • Grew the storage team from 6 to 23 engineers.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2012 - Aug 2015
    SAP · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Led the migration of 50 services to C++.

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Education

  1. SRM Institute of Science and Technology
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2000 - 2004

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