About

Kunal Singh is a Principal Engineer at Ola with over 10 years of relevant experience in distributed system application development in a high throughput and high availability environment with large data sets. He has extensive experience in high-level and low-level design of new components from scratch, evaluating various data stores, data pipelines, component interactions, and finalizing contracts between various components. Kunal has worked on Java-based microservice development in the Dropwizard framework with Guice, Maven, and Git, as well as REST API design with underlying tech stacks like Redis, Apache Kafka, Elastic Search, RestBus, and Hibernate. He has also worked extensively with various design patterns in Java, solid design principles, writing maintainable and extensible code, usage of best design practices, object-oriented modeling, and design. At Ola, Kunal is responsible for solutioning and designing Ola Cars backend, which is Ola's buy, refurb, and sell platform for used cars. In his previous role as a Software Development Engineer at Ola, he designed and built a platform for OLA Infra, Workflow Execution Engine for onboarding and executing any state-based business flow which supports complex business logic validation, executes business actions, and publishes events. He also helped build the industry's first automated insurance claim settlement pipeline for OLA Leasing cars that undergo accidents and an automated workflow management framework that replaced Atlassian JIRA, which was used for ticketing management for Ola Fleet workshops and yards. Kunal has also worked at Flipkart as a Software Development Engineer 2, where he worked on the Flipkart offer Platform and helped build the offer configuration tool used to create all offers on the Flipkart platform. Kunal holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College and completed his high school education from Kendriya Vidyalaya. He is skilled in Java, Software Engineering, Redis, Elastic Search, Kafka, Microservices, Search, Backend, Web, Senior Software Engineering, Infra, PHP, MySQL, Spark, Mobile, and UI.