About

Kavin is a Principal Software Engineer at MakeMyTrip, where he manages a team of backend, frontend, and data engineers to deliver personalized recommendations for travelers at scale. He is passionate about using the vast amount of data available at MakeMyTrip to provide customized recommendations for travelers. Kavin is actively seeking talented individuals who are interested in solving challenging problems in the travel recommendation space. At MakeMyTrip, Kavin is responsible for building trip-based recommendations that are used to cross-sell based on the traveler's browsing activity and bookings. He leads the team responsible for the datasets and APIs used for recommendations. Kavin also owns the data catalog and serving layer of the in-house built feature store and is leading a team of developers to increase the usage of the feature store to power data-driven applications across the organization. Kavin's previous experience includes working as a Lead Software Engineer at MakeMyTrip and as an SDE 2 at Amazon. At Amazon, he designed and developed integrations of multiple vendors for brand safety and other contextual targeting into the Amazon demand-side advertising platform. Kavin holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information and Communication Technology from Dhiru Bhai Ambani Institute. He also attended Dalmia Public School. Kavin's technical skills include software engineering, frontend and backend development, and senior software engineering. With over 11 years of relevant experience, Kavin is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a passion for using data to provide personalized recommendations for travelers.