About

Rinkal Kevat is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Director of Engineering at WazirX, India's biggest Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange. With over 15 years of work experience, Rinkal is a creative product developer and technologist, leading teams to build highly scalable and fault-tolerant products that help millions of users in India book their tickets to entertainment. Rinkal's expertise lies in data and building content products, and his projects have become stepping stones of high growth and serve as the backbone of BookMyShow’s core tech stack. He has led several successful projects, including Personalization and Recommendation Engine, Buzz Feed, Seat Occupancy and Penetration Tracker, Review and Ratings, and Clickstream, which now serve over 80 million users. Rinkal's specialties include MS SQL, MySQL, NoSQL, Big Data, Hadoop Ecosystem (Kafka, Storm, HBase, Hive), MongoDB, Elastic Search, Data Caching (Redis, Memcache), Microsoft .NET, PHP, C#, and he is currently working on Golang for robust processing. Prior to his current role, Rinkal was the DGM Product Engineering at BookMyShow, where he led a team of dynamic engineers to look after all aspects of content catalogues and Personalization and Recommendations for sales optimization. He also assisted in creating a dedicated BI department for more in-depth reporting of data. Rinkal holds a Master's degree and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat. His tech stack includes Bitcoin, Search, SQL, Web3, MemCache, Big Data, Integration, Web, Redis, Golang, PHP, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, Elastic Search, Kafka, Software Engineer, and Apache Hive. Overall, Rinkal has a relevant experience of 17.71 years and is a valuable asset to any organization in the tech industry.