Kishore Yekkanti
Senior Engineering Manager at Etsy
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolKishore Yekkanti is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Dublin with 14 years of experience building and scaling SRE, platform, and infrastructure teams across startups and high-availability consumer services. He currently leads Core Runtime infrastructure and traffic teams at Etsy, owning availability for thousands of VMs, telemetry pipelines, CDNs, DNS, VPCs and firewalls, and driving technical strategy and team autonomy. Previously a VP of Engineering and founder/technical lead at multiple startups, he has deep hands-on experience in cloud architectures (AWS/GCP), CI/CD, containers, Terraform and microservices that enabled frequent zero-downtime deployments. He pairs strong people leadership—building remote-first cultures and clear OKR-driven teams—with pragmatic technical stewardship, moving organizations from monoliths to resilient distributed systems. An active contributor to open source healthcare tooling, his work on OpenMRS improved data validation and integrity in patient records, reflecting a practical focus on reliability and user-facing error clarity. He brings an operator’s mindset to engineering leadership: automate everything, measure continuously, and empower teams to make decisions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer Science, B.Tech, Computer Science at Sri Krishnadevaraya UniversityMontessori High School
Hindi, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
openmrs10
java10
spring-boot10
testing10
ehealth9
medical9
activerecord6
jbehave6
bamboo6
mongodb6
http-response6
mongoid6
integration-testing6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openmrs/openmrs-core
Nov 2011 - Dec 2012
OpenMRS API and web application code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:100 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Kishore's contributions focused on improving the OpenMRS API and web application. They addressed issues related to missing descriptions during program saving and person attribute type creation, implementing validation checks for various fields. These changes involved modifying existing Java code and test files to enhance data integrity and user experience by providing more informative error messages. The user's work directly impacted the accuracy and reliability of data within the OpenMRS system.
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kishoreyekkanti/markettrade
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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