Kunal Johar
Chief Technology Officer at OpenWater, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKunal Johar is a founder-CTO with 11+ years of experience building and scaling cloud SaaS platforms, currently leading technology and product at OpenWater where revenue has doubled year-over-year and the platform serves millions while ingesting terabytes of media. He blends deep technical roots—from DoD and NATO information-sharing projects and FISMA compliance—to hands-on product leadership, overseeing development, devops, and customer-facing operations. Kunal has a track record of turning consulting engagements into high-growth products (two clients reached Inc 500) and previously grew a consultancy to $1M ARR before exiting a unit. He is an educator and strategic advisor, bringing academic rigor from an MS in Computer Science (Information Security) to curriculum and board-level guidance. Known for blunt, productive leadership, he is passionate about fairness in business and hires people who love hard problems and pragmatic engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science Information Security, MS Computer Science Information Security at The George Washington University
Github Skills (49)
azure10
microsoft9
aws-sdk9
microsoft-azure9
sdk9
dotnet8
aws8
csharp8
client-library7
merge6
zeplin5
netsuite5
api5
cms4
pdf-files4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bootleg224/HandWritingTutor
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
getopenwater/OpenWater.Samples
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year
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