Vivek Kunal Kapoor

Overview

I work on embedded systems at Wealthsimple in Toronto. Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 42% in two quarters. Before that: Ubisoft and Loblaw. Most at home with ARM Cortex-M and embedded Linux.

Answers in batches on Fridays

Experience

1. Staff Embedded Engineer

   Apr 2024 - Present
   Wealthsimple · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 457ms to 123ms.
   • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 31% in two quarters.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 6.
2. Engineering Manager

   Jul 2021 - Apr 2024
   Ubisoft · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Grew the firmware team from 5 to 30 engineers.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 6.
3. Embedded Engineer

   Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
   Loblaw · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 633ms to 94ms.
4. Embedded Engineer

   Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
   Electronic Arts · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 474ms to 70ms.
5. Embedded Engineer

   Jul 2014 - Nov 2017
   BMO · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 3.
   • Shipped 27 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.

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Education

1. University of Waterloo

   BMath, Information Technology
   2007 - 2011