Keyur Govande
Chief Technology Officer at Depop
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKeyur Govande is a seasoned technology leader with 13 years of engineering experience who currently serves as Chief Technology Officer at Depop after a long tenure driving platform strategy and architecture at Etsy. He progressed from Staff Software Engineer to Chief Architect and VP of Engineering at Etsy, later stepping in as Co-Chief Technology Officer, demonstrating a rare combination of hands-on systems design and executive leadership. Based in London, he specializes in building scalable, reliable marketplaces and operationalizing engineering teams for rapid growth. His background includes foundational roles at PayPal and an early internship at Intel, reflecting deep roots in high-performance, transaction-oriented systems. With an MS in Computer Engineering and a BTech in Electrical Engineering, he blends rigorous technical training with practical experience shipping large-scale consumer-facing products. Colleagues would note his ability to translate complex architecture decisions into measurable business outcomes while stepping into interim leadership when organizations need steady technical stewardship.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadMaster Of Science, Computer Engineering, Master Of Science, Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (54)
hacklang10
percona10
virtual-machine10
interpreter10
hhvm10
php10
pooling10
ps10
mysql9
postgresql9
database9
clustering9
gearman9
etsy8
lru8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
keyurdg/driveshaft
Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
Gearman worker manager
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 46 commits in 2 years 11 months
poolingglusterfsworkerworker-managergearman
keyurdg/hhvm
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:21 pushes, 9 branches in 7 months
phpprogramsvirtual-machine
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.