About

Kunal Somaya is an accomplished Engineering Leader with over 16 years of experience in architecture, design, and building high-scale systems, managing teams across cross-functional environments. He is a PMP Certified, PSM1, and Master’s in Business Administration with experience in eliciting, analyzing, and documenting the requirements for business processes, policies, and information systems. Kunal is regarded for his excellent qualitative, organizational, and managerial skills. Kunal has worked as a liaison among business stakeholders to understand business problems and opportunities in the context of requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. He is looking forward to a challenging opportunity with an organization that rewards performance and helps him enhance his horizon in engineering management. Kunal's skillset includes PHP, C#, JavaScript, Golang, MySQL, MongoDB, Aerospike MSSQL, PostgreSQL, CakePHP, Zend Framework, Silex Framework, jQuery, NodeJS, AngularJS, GIT, SVN, Agile Methodology, SDLC, Requirement Analysis, Project Scheduling, Cross-Functional Supervision, Team Building, and Mentoring. Kunal has 16+ years of technology experience in the latest trends and techniques of web development technologies. He is a decisive leader capable of leading and managing large project teams with distributed skill-sets, with proven capabilities in setting goals and mentoring. Kunal has strong technical and business management skills. Currently, Kunal is a Senior Engineering Manager at Talview, where he leads the team to build solutions and expanding the capabilities of AI Powered Proctoring & the Recruit platform. He is responsible for handling one of the high revenue generating product lines of the organization. He collaborates with Software Engineering, Operations, and Product Management to develop tools and processes to accelerate high-quality software development. Previously, Kunal has worked as Deputy General Manager and AGM - Engineering at BookMyShow, where he led the Engineering team for Movies & TVOD Vertical. He was responsible for creating, executing, and tracking project plans covering task identification, resource assignment, effort estimates, timelines, scheduling, etc. He drove continuous improvement in the process, through complete re-engineering, and helped reduce the turnaround time of the process. Kunal holds an Executive MBA from Welingkar Institute of Management and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer from June 2004 Fr. Agnels, Mumbai University. He also has a Diploma in Computer Stream from Bombay Institute of Technology. Kunal's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer