Kanav Petkar
Founding Deployed Engineer at Brain Co.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKanav Petkar is a Founding Deployed Engineer with nine years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems across startups and large teams in the San Francisco Bay Area. He co-founded a YC W24 startup (Leaping) and has held technical lead and engineering roles at Rippling and Splunk, delivering multiple high-priority P0 projects and next-gen security automation work. His background spans backend systems, SRE, vehicle telematics, and tooling—work that includes a patent-pursued manufacturing measurement system presented to Toyota leadership. Comfortable moving from prototyping to deployed services, he combines founder-level product focus with hands-on delivery at scale. Based in the Bay Area, he’s open to connections and practical collaborations, and asks new contacts to include why they’re reaching out.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at University of Toronto SchoolsBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Management Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Management Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Marathi
Github Skills (10)
testing7
bdd6
golang5
react4
python4
go3
javascript3
nodes3
kubernetes2
kubernetes-node2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kvptkr/kvptkr.github.io
May 2018 - Feb 2021
Code for personal website and resume
Contributions:57 commits, 5 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 9 months
javascriptreact
matthewfollegot/MSCI-434
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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