# Kanav Petkar

> AI Product Engineer @ Brain Co.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kanavpetkar

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## Work Experience
### Founding Deployed Engineer @ Brain Co.
Jan 2025 – Present | Dubai, United Arab Emirates

### Co-Founder @ Leaping
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
YC W24

### Technical Lead @ Rippling
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
shipped 3 significant P0 projects, 1 P1 project

### Software Engineer @ Rippling
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer Intern @ Rippling
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Backend Engineering Intern @ Splunk
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States
Working on Splunk's next-gen automated security anomaly and detection platform.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Autonomic
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Sending commands to vehicles and receiving signals from them too!

### Site Reliability Engineer Intern @ Autonomic
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Developing the infrastructure to power all Ford Connectivity Solutions!

### Writer @ Reach For The Top Inc./Schoolreach Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Canada Area
Reach for the Top is Canada's high-school trivia challenge. I helped write trivia questions for the 2018 and 2019 edition of Reach for the Top Ontario Provincials and Nationals, played by highschoolers across Canada

### Software Engineering Intern @ Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Developed friction weld measuring system and got to present it to upper Toyota management in Japan before it was filed for patent.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Capgemini
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Canada Area
Developed RPA solutions for OPG and other governmental orgs as a part of a contract team.


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Management Engineering
University of Waterloo

### High School
University of Toronto Schools


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kvptkr

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Last updated: 2026-04-05