Kunal Kandekar
Founder at Keeda Labs
San Ramon, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKunal Kandekar is a founder and seasoned software engineer with over 14 years of industry experience and a 20+ year background in R&D across distributed systems, developer productivity, social networking, mobile and web apps. He led developer-facing initiatives at LinkedIn—kickstarting Code Intelligence and building widely used tools like CodeSearch and a web-based developer portal—and now runs Keeda Labs focused on security, social media and AI-driven developer tooling. Kunal combines hands-on engineering, systems thinking and product instincts to identify large-scale opportunities and align teams to deliver measurable impact. He’s an inventor with 40+ issued US patents and a penchant for using technology to nudge culture toward “doing the right thing.” Based in the San Ramon/Bay Area, he pairs startup grit (engineer #3 at Kale) with enterprise-scale experience driving performance, scalability and developer happiness.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Fergusson CollegeMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityO-Levels, O-Levels at Sayfol International SchoolBachelor of Engineering Instrumentation & Process Control, Bachelor of Engineering Instrumentation & Process Control at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune
Marathi, Hindi, English, French
Github Skills (36)
partitioning10
aerospike10
apache9
lifecycle9
spark9
data-stream9
dcos9
pjsip9
kafka9
streaming9
replication9
management9
batch9
stream-processing8
freeswitch8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kunalkandekar/Viva-Voce
Jan 2012 - Mar 2013
P2P VoIP app in C++ using ADPCM-encoded audio, SIP, SDP and RTP over UDP/IP.
Contributions:2 reviews, 12 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
adpcmrtpencodedaudiounitp2p
kunalkandekar/quicktrace
Jan 2012 - Apr 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 8 years 3 months
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