Shirin Kidwai

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Director of Engineering at Reliance Jio | ex-Deloitte

Reliance Jio
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
13+ years experience
Shri Ram College of Commerce
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Overview

I've spent 19 years on distributed databases - first at McKinsey & Company, now at Reliance Jio. Shipped 14 launches on the storage team without a rollback. Before that: Deloitte and Boston Consulting Group. Most at home with Rust and Kafka. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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Skills
performance engineeringRocksDBconsensusRustKafkaRaft
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a go-to-market co-founder for home healthcare staffing for hospital networks

The idea
Home healthcare staffing for hospital networks
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
14 years in distributed databases
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Mumbai or remote

I bring 19 years of distributed databases (currently Reliance Jio). Ideally you've led a design team. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Mumbai, Indiarustconsensuskafka
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    May 2025 - Present
    Reliance Jio · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Moved 74% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 45 minutes to under 5.
    • Wrote the RocksDB service that now handles 90 million requests a day.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Aug 2022 - Jan 2025
    Deloitte · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
  3. Software Engineer
    Apr 2019 - Aug 2022
    Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 25 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 4.
  4. Engineering Manager
    May 2017 - Apr 2019
    SAP · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 325ms to 154ms.
    • Shipped 14 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  5. Software Engineer
    Dec 2013 - May 2017
    McKinsey & Company · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 41% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 5.

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Write-up: distributed databases in practice
2025

A long-form guide to distributed databases for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Shri Ram College of Commerce
    B.Com, Electrical Engineering
    2002 - 2006

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