Kunal Akshay Kumar

Overview

Based in Montreal. I lead distributed databases at Electronic Arts. Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion. Led the migration of 36 services to C++. Before that: Meta and Electronic Arts. Most at home with C++ and performance engineering. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Sep 2022 - Present
   Electronic Arts · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
   • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 39% in two quarters.
   • Grew the storage team from 6 to 29 engineers.
2. Engineering Manager

   Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
   Meta · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
   • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 33 a week to 1.
3. Engineering Manager

   Mar 2018 - Jun 2021
   Electronic Arts · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
   • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
4. Senior Software Engineer

   Dec 2015 - Mar 2018
   Cohere · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
   • Built the experimentation framework 17 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 5.
5. Software Engineer

   Dec 2012 - Dec 2015
   Accenture · 3 yr · Full-time · Montreal, QC
   • Wrote the Raft service that now handles 90 million requests a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 507ms to 77ms.

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Education

1. Rotman School of Management

   MBA, Business Administration
   2014 - 2016
2. Western University

   HBA, Mathematics
   2007 - 2011