About

Kanishka P. is an accomplished Engineering Manager and Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience in Backend Platforms, Search, Information Retrieval, and Data Engineering. He is a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, where he earned a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. Kanishka has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Salesforce, Amazon, Symantec, and MakeMyTrip. Currently, he is working as an Engineering Manager at acceldata, where he is responsible for leading the development of the company's backend platform. At Salesforce, Kanishka led several modules in CDP and DMP (Marketing Cloud), which are advertising/marketing products operating at planet scale involving peta-bytes of data. He worked on Big Data and Cloud Native Technologies, gaining extensive experience in AWS, Spark, Apache Airflow, Hadoop, and Kafka. Before joining acceldata, Kanishka was a Team Lead at belong.co, where he led the people search and personalization efforts along with the CTO and Data Science team. He built the core ranking platform for belong's flagship contextual people search engine and led a team of 5 people working in information retrieval, data science, and ML ops. Kanishka's tech stack is extensive and includes Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Salesforce, AWS, Search, Information Retrieval, Spark, Data Engineering, Apache Airflow, Hadoop, Kafka, Spring, Microservices, Java, Kubernetes, Backend, Python, Infra, Big Data, Test, Data Scientist, ML, Elastic Search, Integration, Research Scientist, Spring Boot, ETL, and Postgres. With 11.20 years of relevant experience, Kanishka is a highly skilled professional who has demonstrated his ability to lead and deliver complex projects. He is an asset to any team, and his expertise in Backend Platforms, Search, Information Retrieval, and Data Engineering make him a valuable addition to any organization.