About

Kunal Khatri is an accomplished software engineer with over 6 years of experience in building Enterprise and SaaS products. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Trifacta, a Data Preparation platform available as both SaaS and Enterprise offering. Kunal has worked on varied efforts involving major backend work in a micro-service architecture, such as orchestration, optimization and execution of data transformation jobs in batch processing engines, improvements in job execution pipeline, etc. Some of his key responsibilities include designing and driving feature work for different Trifacta’s offerings, mentoring interns and guiding junior engineers, and helping with growing the team and building knowledge within the Bangalore office. Kunal has also worked as a Software Developer Engineer III at Splunk, where he built next-generation features for Splunk’s web-based application for the IT domain called IT Service Intelligence (ITSI). He designed and built scalable RESTful APIs for large distributed ITSI backend, and fixed other necessary backend components for the application, such as Migration Interface, Object Dependencies Management Queue, Access Control, etc. Kunal worked with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and the team to plan product releases and decide features requirements. Kunal holds a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree in Computer Science from SRM University. He has a diverse set of technical skills, including AWS, Python, Spark, Java, Javascript, GCP, Backend, Databricks, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kafka, Microservices, Bamboo, Selenium, test, SQL, Search, CI/CD, qa, Pandas, Jenkins, ui, Web, and Senior Software Engineer. With 7.70 years of relevant experience, Kunal is an inquisitive software engineer seeking to build scalable ingenious products, be a part of a skilful collaborative team, and continue to learn and grow.