About

Ketan Anand is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over 13 years of relevant experience in developing large scale web applications with agile software development methodology. He is currently responsible for owning global classifieds product for OLX across markets such as India, LATAM, Middle East, Africa and parts of Europe. Ketan is a highly functional and efficient team leader who has built and led multiple teams to create distributed and highly available systems. He has a focus on creating highly functional and efficient teams to achieve business/product goals. Ketan also coaches and guides team members for career growth and skill development, as well as performs performance evaluation, appraisals and shares feedback through continuous conversations. Ketan is an active contributor in backend-development and has worked on multiple platforms including PHP, NodeJS(Restify), and Erlang. He also plays the role of architect to create scalable and robust services/products. Ketan leverages AWS managed services & open source software to the fullest to build scalable and performant solutions. He also focuses on automation, continuous integration & deployment. (CI/CD) Ketan's past experience includes working as a Senior Engineering Manager at OLX and a Lead Software Engineer at Quikr. At Quikr, he developed tools and solutions for improving speed/performance and scalability of various Quikr services - Web, Mobile, and App. His role entailed implementing projects on building better technology infrastructure for the company and developing infra solutions and SOA based modules. Ketan holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Bharati Vidyapeeth. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, CI/CD, AWS, Backend, P2P, Software Engineer, Mobile, Web, product manager, Research Scientist, PHP, iOS, Integration, NodeJS, Android, and infra.