Summary
Kunal Kerkar is a founder and engineering leader with 15 years’ experience building and operating high-performance, high-volume SaaS platforms from the infrastructure up. He has led platform and infrastructure teams at scale (notably at Lummo/BukuKas) and consulted on DevOps for enterprise clients like Ritchie Bros, blending hands-on systems engineering with product-focused delivery. Kunal’s career spans fast-moving startups and mature engineering organizations where he has driven reliability, scalability, and automation across cloud-native stacks. He began his open-source journey as a Google Summer of Code contributor to the XMPP Standards Foundation, showing early interest in networking and real-time systems that inform his platform work today. Based in Vancouver, he now channels that operational and engineering depth into Tsudot Inc, where he builds next-generation infrastructure-driven products.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at Manipal Institute of Technology