Summary
Krish Palaniappan is a seasoned full-stack architect and CTO with over nine years of experience building and operating B2B and B2C products, currently leading engineering and AI exploration at Snowpal. He blends hands-on development across Go, Flutter, TypeScript, Rails and cloud-native stacks with product ownership, API-first backends on AWS Marketplace, and mobile app delivery used by thousands of customers. Krish has a long history of architecting scalable systems and refactoring legacy platforms for performance and maintainability across domains from federal healthcare to payroll and e-commerce. He routinely wears every hat—engineering lead, architect, product manager and growth operator—so he can ship end-to-end solutions and reduce time-to-market. Recently he’s focused on integrating modern AI toolchains (OpenAI API, Weaviate, AWS AI products) into Snowpal’s next phase, pairing practical product instincts with emerging ML dependencies. A practical polyglot and frequent problem-solver, he also packages learnings into low-cost courses and API products to help other teams ship faster.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Hospitality Information Systems, Master's Hospitality Information Systems at University of Houston
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
High School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Gill Adarsh Matriculation Higher Secondary School
English