About

Kunal Solanki is an experienced Engineering Manager and Solution Architect with a career spanning over 12 years in Telecom, E-commerce, Product development, and Digital transformation of legacy systems. He has a proven track record of building and architecting systems for scalability, reliability, and reusability. With 5+ years of experience in Engineering Leadership roles, Kunal has translated product visions from why to what to how, and has been responsible for engineering leadership and stakeholder management. Kunal has built a high-performance engineering team of 40+ from the ground up, taking care of hiring, mentoring, and scaling up the team to lead successful deliveries. He possesses a diverse skill set that includes Spring Boot, Microservices, RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL), NoSQL (Cassandra, Mongo), Redis, Multithreading, Elastic search, Design patterns, Data structures, and Algorithm, APIGEE, Splunk, Git, Solution Architect, Technical Leadership, and Hiring high-performing engineers. Currently, Kunal is an Engineering Manager II at Google, where he brings his extensive experience to lead and manage engineering teams to deliver high-quality products. Prior to this, he worked as an Engineering Manager at TomTom, where he led a team to enable availability of all the addressing features in Global Maps and scaled the legacy product to microservices and event-driven architecture to improve the address ingestion and provide auto-scalability. Kunal has also worked as an Engineering Manager at Accolite, where he led the design, delivery, and architecture of an Omni Channel B2B eCommerce platform for Cart Management, Order Processing & Tracking for T-Mobile USA. He designed a search and reporting platform using elastic search, resulting in a 100X improvement over the existing system. Kunal was also responsible for client engagement to lead domain, functional, and technical delivery and played a key role in digital transformation initiatives. Kunal holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from D. Y. Patil Pratishthans D. Y. Patil College of Engineering, Pune. He is proficient in Senior Software Engineering, Microservices, Search, Elastic Search, Redis, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Spring Boot, Spring, and Mobile technologies. Overall, Kunal has 13.79 years of relevant experience in the industry.