About

Kshitij Grovor is an experienced Engineering Lead at Joveo, a technology company that specializes in programmatic recruitment advertising. With a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, Kshitij has over 3.86 years of relevant experience in software development and engineering management. As an Engineering Manager at Joveo, Kshitij has successfully led a team of 6 highly competent engineers and played a key role in breaking down a giant Monolith into microservices, taking ownership for planning, execution, and delivery for Campaign Management. He has also been a founding member of the recruitment committee, which led the engineering scale-up from 20 engineers to 130+ engineers. Kshitij has conducted 100+ interviews for a variety of candidates ranging from SDE1s to Sr Architects, created interview questions for Joveo, audited peer's questions for calibration, trained newer interviewers through the lead/shadow approach, and taken part in many debriefing sessions to analyze candidate fitment. Kshitij has also lobbied for and delivered on a switch from NoSQL (MongoDB) to SQL (Postgres) building on the company's vision for data warehousing and data access patterns. He has integrated with Apache Kafka pipelines for auditing and warehousing and has led 25+ Sprints with a consistent completion percentage of above 90%. Kshitij has delivered 5 product-led incremental platform features with minimal delays and bugs and introduced structural processes around QA handoff and code review & merging to reduce friction points of team members. In his previous roles at Joveo, Kshitij has built a comprehensive scala training & onboarding process, designed an approach to safely manage major code migrations in production environments, standardized build, lint, coverage testing, deploy and schema migration processes, and cleared out legacy hacks and redundancies. He has also built a Quickstart Library, which enabled logging, automatic distributed tracking, auto-gen swagger docs, error handling across Joveo by building a library abstraction, reduced boilerplate and meta work in building APIs, and allowed retrospective addition of features to APIs without requiring rework. Kshitij's technical skills include SQL, Scala, QA, NoSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Microservices, Postgres, test, Jenkins, and software engineering. With his strong technical expertise and leadership skills, Kshitij is a valuable asset to any organization.