# Krishna Kalubandi > Engineering @ Ramp | ex-CitSec, Robinhood | UCSD Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/krishnakalubandi Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience building products and platforms at hyper growth startups, big finance and tech companies. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Ramp Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States Building the future of source-to-pay with an exceptional engineering team. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Citadel Securities Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States Senior Platform Engineer on Petabyte Scale Regulatory Data Platform team specializing on all things related to data quality, business analytics while sharing overall platform responsibilities from handling releases to incident management. Below are few key projects that I was involved with during my time. - Built and owned end-end data validation framework across all firms orders, trades and transactions that highlighted critical data quality issues in a timely manner to business operations. - Bootstrapped business data layer on top of existing books and records system enabling new use cases from real time analytics to end of day reporting across the organization. - Helped co-ordinate large data warehouse migrations while delivering on business goals. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Robinhood Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States Product facing Backend Engineer at Robinhood with experience on high-impact projects across multiple product areas, including Brokerage, Core Experience, and Customer Care. During my time at the company, I was involved in - Several successful 0->1 product launches, including Robinhood Lists and Profiles, 24/7 Phone and Chat Support, and In-App Survey. - Delivering significantly to infrastructure improvements like enhancing our real-time market data quality, splitting a monolithic system into microservices with a strong ownership model, and setting up load testing framework to improve our load tolerance. - Engineering leadership in a range of areas, including reducing on-call burden, prioritizing high-quality software while meeting business timelines, providing mentorship to junior engineers, and acting as a technical lead to empower the team to solve ambiguous technical problems. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of California San Diego Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater San Diego Area Teaching Assistant for Introduction To Computer Security course by Prof. Stefan Savage. I helped with assignments that introduce students to buffer overflow, heap spraying, side channels, web and network level vulnerabilities. Other responsibilities include writing grading scripts, evaluation, holding office hours and conducting discussion sessions. Technologies Used: C, GDB, Bash, Python, OpenFlow, POX ### Software Engineering Intern @ MuleSoft Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Mulesoft got acquired by Salesforce. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-20/salesforce-agrees-to-buy-mulesoft-for-about-6-5-billion Part of the AnypointMQ team that maintains the message queue feature of Mulesoft's AnyPoint platform. Anypoint Message Queue is a Distributed Message Queue datastructure that comes with a drag and drop connector as a part of Mulesoft's Anypoint Studio. I was involved with developing the full stack feature of delay queues and also worked on message groups feature. I also worked on our internal tools and testing frameworks in the spare time to make the ops work easier. Technologies Used: SpringBoot, React, Node.js, Jenkins, Docker. ### Intern @ Postman (API Tools) Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bengaluru Area, India Postman is recently valued at 2B after Series C. https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/11/api-platform-postman-nabs-150m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/ Worked primarily on Node.js and Sails.js. Developed and deployed installable rate limiting module based on Redis. Worked on exception reporter and code-to-collection parser packages. Analysed performance on production systems through flame graphs. Other works include building Gitlab integration on collections and improving logging pipelines. Technologies Used: Node, Docker, Travis, ELK stack ### Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Hyderabad Area, India Contoso Cabs Developed a Xamarin Cross Platform application that helps users book a cab by comparing across multiple providers. Implemented integration with Cortana via Canvas and Voice Commands on Universal Windows Platform. Implemented the experimental Cortana Insights feature on UWP and Android platforms. Integrated Ola, Uber, Google Maps and Bing Maps API’s along with a custom Node.js backend logic as a secure RESTful API hosted on Azure. Followed Agile Scrum SDLC under the guidance of Chief Architects and Subject Matter Experts at Microsoft. Also worked with onsite product teams for the access to the latest build versions of Cortana and Windows. Technologies Used: C#, Xamarin, Node, Azure, Android, Windows UWP ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science UC San Diego Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 ### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Information Technology Vellore Institute of Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/krishnakalubandi --- Source: https://flows.cv/krishnakalubandi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/krishnakalubandi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22