About

Kavita Kanojiya is an accomplished Tech Lead and Engineering Manager with nearly 10 years of experience in two startup environments. She is an agile-minded leader with a proven ability to provide unique insights into scaling in product vision, development agility, and hiring. Currently, she is an Engineering Manager with EdCast, an AI-powered knowledge cloud for Unified Discovery, Knowledge Management, and Personalized Learning with ~3M+ users, aimed towards upskilling the enterprise workforce. In her current role, Kavita leads a team focused on AI, enterprise search, and enterprise authentication. She likes solving problems, whether it be debugging critical production bugs or scaling a feature that has become sluggish with increasing usage. She focuses on computational ideas rather than specific technologies/languages, although her primary exposure lies with Ruby/Rails, Python, Postgres/MySQL, and ElasticSearch. Kavita's experience includes setting and enforcing standards, running Agile teams, and driving continuous software improvement initiatives. In addition to her experience, she earned a degree in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University and completed an Advanced Machine Learning Nanodegree with Udacity. Prior to her current role, Kavita was a Senior Software Engineer at EdCast, where she contributed to the LXP core product. She was initially hired after EdCast’s Series A round as employee #22 (#7 in Engineering). She has also worked as a Software Developer at Kiprosh, a software development providing IT Solutions, ranging from E-Commerce, CRM to B2C products. Kavita's project highlights include establishing company-wide policy for creation of architecture documentation for every feature before development, re-implementing multi-tenant, multi-lingual enterprise search using ElasticSearch 7 with a focus on relevancy, speed, and horizontal scalability, and designing user session management to harden security. She has also built a bulk user import and provisioning solution that reduced import time from an hour to two seconds. Kavita has a diverse TechStack that includes Senior Software Engineer, AI, Search, Ruby, Elastic Search, AWS, test, Software Engineer, Python, MySQL, ML, Postgres, Integration, qa, Jupyter, Selenium, Redis, and GCP. She has relevant experience of 8.36 years.