Summary
Kiran Hegde is a lead consultant and seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native applications. He blends strong engineering fundamentals—DDD, BDD, and TDD—with pragmatic product empathy, prioritising customer value before feature build. Kiran has led teams across payments, automotive personalization, and enterprise middleware, driving automation that reclaimed developer time (e.g., eliminating manual stats work and saving ~10 hours/week) and accelerating releases through CI/CD platforms. Technically fluent in Java, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure and observability stacks, he repeatedly turns complex integrations (Visa/Mastercard, Apple Pay, 3D Secure) into production-ready services. A hands-on leader and mentor based in Bengaluru, he pairs technical depth with a knack for operational simplification that amplifies team delivery.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
English, Hindi, Kannada, German