About

Kunal Shah is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience in solving complex challenges and creating impactful solutions. With a Master's degree in Systems and a minor in Machine Learning, Kunal has a deep understanding of various technologies and domains, including distributed systems, cloud and container technologies, operating systems, network layer, and storage layer. Throughout his 4+ years of experience, Kunal has worked on various products and projects, including VMware Kubernetes Engine, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, and Samsung's Tizen OS. Currently, he is working as a Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce Inc., where he is responsible for developing innovative solutions and contributing to the company's growth. Kunal's past experience includes working as a Senior Member of Technical Staff and Member of Technical Staff at VMware, where he presented a lightning talk at Kubecon North America and designed K8s deployment that supports the derivation of cluster health. He also contributed to building the foundation of many microservices and proposed the design of abstracting the load balancer module to support k8s load balancer type service across clouds (AWS and Azure). Kunal's educational background includes a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Engineering from VJTI. He also holds a Certificate in Management Essentials from Harvard Business School. Kunal's technical skills include Software Engineering, Salesforce, Kubernetes, ML, Microservices, AWS, Azure, Kafka, Postgres, and infra. With 6.95 years of relevant experience, Kunal is a highly motivated and skilled software engineer who is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow.