# Kanishtha Surana

> IIIT-H | Ex-Adobe, Compass, PhonePe | Backend Software Developer. Looking for new opportunities.

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kanishtha

Experienced (~5 years) backend Software engineer with experience in Java and C++. Have previously worked for Adobe, Compass and PhonePe in my journey.
My technical skills extend to Distributed systems, System design, Apache Kafka, Postgres, MongoDb, Redis, Apache Druid, SpringBoot, Hibernate, Dropwizard, Restful Api's, CI/CD , Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, empowering me to tackle complex challenges and drive impactful results.
Currently based out of New York on a valid work visa (L2), looking for opportunities.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2024 – Present | New Jersey, United States

### SDE-2 @ PhonePe
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
PhonePe is a Walmart owned digital financial services platform for consumers and businesses across India offering services across investments, insurance, lending, and e-commerce; 200M monthly active customers, 100M transactions/day.

Worked on an in-house Ads management platform. The platform powers digital ads to end users based on different targeting options. The platform handles peak load at 60K requests/second.
• Worked on reporting and A/B experimentation for ads, results being reported to advertisers enabling data driven decisions and effective reach to target audience.
Tech stack: Java8, SpringBoot, Kafka, Druid DB, Redis, Postgres DB

### SDE-2 @ Compass
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Compass is a US based technology-driven real estate platform, helps clients buy, sell, or rent properties; performed 200K transactions with 230B in gross dollar value in 2022.

Worked on the Communications platform enabling communications between real estate agents and their clients. Worked on the following services in the platform:
• Developed a texting platform as service from scratch to handle conversations between agents and client via Twilio.
• Email service - subscription/unsubscription, scheduled/immediate email deliveries; handled 200M events/day.
Tech stack: Java8, SpringBoot, Golang, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, Postgres DB

### MTS-2 @ Adobe
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Worked in Adobe Campaign Standard product; is a comprehensive marketing automation platform by Adobe that enables businesses to create, coordinate, and deliver personalized campaigns across various channels like email/ push.

• Re-designed and implemented the consumers of Kafka based Pipelining service for Adobe’s Campaign
Standard. Achieved 3x throughput gains and better Monitoring and Observability.
Tech stack: C++, Java, Kafka, Redis, Postgres DB

### MTS-1 @ Adobe
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Noida Area, India


## Education
### Master of Technology - MTech in Computer Software Engineering
IIIT Hyderabad

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Information Technology
Jaypee University of Information Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05