# Kannav Mehta

> Palantir | IIITH CS

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/kannav

I am a graduate from IIIT-Hyderabad where I studied Computer Science. I have an interest in high performance computing and large scale distributed systems.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2023 – Present | Greater London, England, United Kingdom
I have worked on the following components inside https://www.palantir.com/platforms/foundry/
1. Worked on the re-architechture of the metrics backend for foundry, made query p99 to go from 1.5sec to 300ms. Added support for aggregations and aggregated monitoring in the platform.
2. Implemented a concurrency control mechanism in foundry's job orchestration backend to auto-detect concurrency limits for downstream services in order to achieve optimal throughput with optimal latency
3. Contributed to a re-architecture of Foundry's internal event queue mechanism ; interfacing with the storage stack down to the transactional layer https://github.com/palantir/atlasdb; 10x less load.
4. Added support for checkpointing in the event sourcing mechanism for scheduling service. Allowed us to remove long standing bugs which saved customers money in accidental builds. Reduced service startup time from 1000s to 10s. Enabled development of newer features to be built on top of checkpointing.
5. Re-writing the internal event broker service to allow for more scale. 
6.  Led database migration for job orchestration service , architecting schema redesign and caching
optimizations that reduced database read rates by 85%. Designed cross-database transaction coordination and event
bridge layer enabling zero-downtime cutover.
 
If you find these interesting, come work with us https://www.palantir.com/careers/

### Teaching Assistant @ International Institute of Information Technology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India
TA for the Operating Systems and Networks Course
TA for the Distributed Systems Course

### Undergraduate Researcher, Computer Systems Group @ International Institute of Information Technology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Worked on projects in multiple domains. Some of them HFT systems on FPGAs, autonomous HFT systems

### Undergraduate Researcher, CVIT(Independent Study) @ International Institute of Information Technology
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
- 6DoF estimation from RGB images/video

### Core Engineering Intern @ Tower Research Capital
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Gurugram, Haryana, India
• Reduced the total outgoing HTTP2 headers size by 53% by adding Huffman Coding and HPACK Compression
• Created a system for real time analysis and detection of fake volume in over 17 cryptocurrency exchanges using Python
• Worked on a Market-Data Arbitration Framework that determines the optimal number of connections to be created to
the cryptocurrency exchange in a continuous and automated fashion

### Tech Team: Member @ Open Source Developers Group: IIIT Hyderabad
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Open Source Contributor at Boost C++ libraries @ Google Summer of Code
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Worked on a generic Tensor Library for Boost.uBLAS, by adding multi-dimensional read/write views of tensors that can
be used interchangeably in arithmetic expressions
• Added support for creating subtensors using indexes, slices while ensuring compatibility with the existing API

### Software Developer Internship @ Spinlogics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Used Django Rest Framework and React to develop a web-based automated trading platform for stocks and
cryptocurrencies by analyzing candle-stick patterns and over 20 technical indicators
• Used Celery, RabbitMQ and Redis for handling multiple jobs concurrently and used Telegram API to provide push
notifications to users


## Education
### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-30