Kamal Patwa
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ABOUT ME
Seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience with programming
Seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience with programming
I'm a Senior software engineering manager by profession with over a decade of experience in software engineering. I have advised several startups and mentored over 30 individuals on leveling up as a software engineer and setting them up for career progression.
I have designed and implemented large-scale distributed systems, some examples
1. Ingesting, Processing, Enriching, and transforming 1.5 Billion events per day via a clickstream pipeline.
2. Designing Real-time odds and tickers applications for live odds and stock trading data to handle millions of concurrent users.
The first company I worked for ( Poshmark ) IPO'd in 2020 and I was one of the founding engineers in the India team.
The second company I worked for ( Squadstack ) grew 3x in revenue during my time there and I headed the growth engineering vertical of the company.
Hindi, English
Chennai (+05:30)
Joined December 2016
EXPERTISE
8 years experience
I have written 200+ Rake tasks for the purposes of Data Extraction Transformation and Loading. I am proficient in web scraping techniques...
I have written 200+ Rake tasks for the purposes of Data Extraction Transformation and Loading. I am proficient in web scraping techniques. I have experience in using Ruby's RestClient to consume data. I deploy and schedule my Rake tasks in Jenkins CI.
Some of the gems I have extensive experience in are:
1. Capybara
2. rest-client
3. slack-notifier
4. aws-sdk
5. remote_table
6. rake
7. google-api-client
I have organized and given talks on Ruby. One of my most recent talk was on the topic : Ruby for data Extraction.
https://www.meetup.com/chennai-ruby/events/235174004/
9 years experience | 1 endorsement
My newest passion is SQL. I just love this language. I have written 1000+ queries and have made a dozen table schemas in amazon redshift....
My newest passion is SQL. I just love this language. I have written 1000+ queries and have made a dozen table schemas in amazon redshift. Some of my queries span more than 20+ joins. I am well aware of the Normalization rules and I practice them at my workplace. Check out my profile at
https://www.codewars.com/users/kamalptw to get a feel of the difficulty of problems I have solved in SQL.
9 years experience
I have been practising HTML/CSS since grade school. Although I cannot boast of being a full fledged web developer I am well aware of the ...
I have been practising HTML/CSS since grade school. Although I cannot boast of being a full fledged web developer I am well aware of the DOM, and use CSS selectors extensively due to my web scraping background. I also have experience making stand alone Landing Pages.
2 years experience
I have experience in web scraping using python. I have also helped develop bots.
I have made simple GUI projects using python's tkinter...
I have experience in web scraping using python. I have also helped develop bots.
I have made simple GUI projects using python's tkinter module
1 year experience
I have used Selenium Webdriver in a few java projects.
I have used Selenium Webdriver in a few java projects.
9 years experience
Worked with Typescript on several projects
Worked with Typescript on several projects
5 years experience
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(2 reviews)
mcasa0802
February 2017
Kamal, was knowledgeable with the SQL query i needed and understood my question fairly quick.
Sid
January 2017
Good quick work, very understanding! Thanks
EMPLOYMENTS
Senior Engineering Manager
SQUADSTACK
2022-10-01-2024-05-01
- Hiring, Managing, Training and Mentoring a team of 15+ product engineers comprising backend engineers, frontend engineers, tech l...
- Hiring, Managing, Training and Mentoring a team of 15+ product engineers comprising backend engineers, frontend engineers, tech leads and data engineers.
- Responsible for driving engineering excellence and designing software architecture for growth engineering, integrations engineering and technical solutions engineering domains.
- Developing the product engineering roadmap and setting up a high-performing engineering team that has grown the company revenues by a factor of 3x
Python
Node.js
Jenkins
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Python
Node.js
Jenkins
JavaScript
Engineering Management
AWS
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Engineering Manager
POSHMARK
2015-09-01-2022-10-01
As an Engineering manager,
- Hiring, Managing, Training & Mentoring a team of developers and recruiting senior/junior dev...
As an Engineering manager,
- Hiring, Managing, Training & Mentoring a team of developers and recruiting senior/junior developers for roles within the company.
- Responsible for end-to-end delivery of projects and architecture of backend infrastructure to support and grow the 100M+ user base.
- Scaling the backend distributed systems infrastructure to handle 1.5 billion events per day (2.5x growth from pre-pandemic levels)
- Led optimization projects saving the company $100,000+ annually in cloud infrastructure costs.
- Continuing to be an active contributor to the codebase and addressing technical debts and architectural gaps in the system.
- Planning sprints, backlog grooming, preparing future projects roadmap, and authoring tech specs of complex projects.
As a Lead Software Engineer,
- Promoted to Lead Software Engineer after 1 year as SSE for being recognized as a top performer and a strong contributor to company success.
- Led the integration of a cashback platform to web, backend, frontend & iOS, Android apps which resulted in $1M+ ARR
- Implemented large-scale logging on web & app platforms using event logging grammar via AWS Kinesis and Apache Spark.
- Solely responsible for pipelining hundreds of millions of data points of growth performance data at individual listing level granularity.
- Continually guiding a team of developers and recruiting junior developers for roles within the company.
As a Senior Software Engineer,
- Ingested individual Product level metrics from Google & Facebook by writing Spark ETLs.(Big positive impact on Marketing Efficiency – improved it by 30%).
- Built, maintained, and scaled critical data ingestion pipelines, Orchestrating DAGs using Airflow.
Ruby
HTML/CSS
Python
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Ruby
HTML/CSS
Python
Ruby on Rails
Scala
Docker
Apache Spark
Engineering Management
AWS
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