Kunal Amin

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Director of Engineering at Vista Ops · Kubernetes, Go

Vista Ops
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
IIIT Hyderabad
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Overview

Director of Engineering at Vista Ops, focused on platform engineering. Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

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Skills
observabilityBazelKubernetesGoCI/CD
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Hiring a senior backend engineer for the developer platform team - Bengaluru

Role
Senior backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
₹36-70 LPA
Team
Developer platform, 18 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with observability Production experience with Bazel Comfort with ambiguity
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp ₹43-51 LPA. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Bengaluru, Indiagokubernetesbazel
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Apr 2025 - Present
    Vista Ops · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 42% in two quarters.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 333ms to 170ms.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
    Deloitte · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Moved 65% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Platform Engineer
    Mar 2019 - Feb 2022
    Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Wrote the Go service that now handles 39 million requests a day.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 22% in two quarters.
  4. Senior Platform Engineer
    Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
    Salesforce · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 43% in two quarters.
    • Led the migration of 64 services to Bazel.
  5. Platform Engineer
    Jun 2015 - Nov 2017
    Airtel · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 4.

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Education

  1. IIIT Hyderabad
    B.Tech, Information Technology
    2009 - 2013

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