Ankit Kinra
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkit Kinra is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable cloud services, currently driving the Memcached engine for Google Cloud Memorystore. He previously helped bootstrap Azure Data Catalog at Microsoft and has held backend and infrastructure roles across Dropbox, NexTag, and other firms, giving him deep expertise in distributed caching and data platform internals. Based in Redmond, he blends product-focused engineering with hands-on systems work, taking features from prototype to beta in large cloud environments. His background includes a Master’s from the University of Minnesota and early-career full-stack experience that informs pragmatic design decisions. A detail that sets him apart is a track record of contributing to foundational platform components (like managed cache engines) rather than surface features, favoring reliability and operational maturity.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Netaji Subhas Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Delhi College of EngineeringUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesBhartiya Vidya Bhavan
English, Hindi
Github Skills (14)
google-cloud-platform10
appengine10
google-cloud10
gcloud10
gcp10
hpc9
client-library8
memcached7
nest6
golang5
strongly-typed5
elasticsearch5
elastic4
elasticsearch-net1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/gomemcache
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
Go Memcached client library #golang
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 3 months
golanggolang-librarymemcached-clientclient-librarymemcached
ankitkinra/hpc-toolkit
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Cloud HPC Toolkit is an open-source software offered by Google Cloud which makes it easy for customers to deploy HPC environments on Google Cloud.
Contributions:64 pushes, 31 branches in 7 months
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