Kinnar Kansara
Staff Software Engineer at Turo
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolKinnar Kansara is a Staff Software Engineer in Fremont, CA with over 10 years of experience building backend services and cloud-native systems across Java, Python, and JavaScript stacks. He has progressed from hands-on full‑stack and Android development to technical leadership roles, currently shaping platform engineering at Turo after contributing to Venmo’s migration from Python 2 to 3 and building a gRPC/Protobuf crypto microservice. Kinnar blends deep Java EE and Spring expertise with modern DevOps practices—Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS—to deliver reliable CI/CD-driven production systems. He’s comfortable across databases, reporting, and front-end technologies, and has led teams through both Agile and Waterfall lifecycles while owning estimates and delivery. Notably, his early work migrating platform stores to lightweight SQLite and later optimizing Venmo’s backend shows a pragmatic focus on performance and portability. He holds an MS in Information Systems from Northeastern and a B.Tech in IT, pairing academic rigor with decade-long practical impact.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at NIRMA UNIVERSITYMaster of Science - MS, Information Systems, Master of Science - MS, Information Systems at Northeastern University
Hindi, Gujarati, English
Github Skills (10)
mongoose3
nodejs2
expressjs2
crowd2
mongodb2
apl1
javascript1
science1
computer-science1
testing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kinnarrk/ami
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:29 commits in 1 month
kinnarrk/CrowdFlow
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
Crowd Funding Platform developed with Node.js, Express.js and MongoDB
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
expressjsnode-jsjavascriptexpressfunding
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