# Kunal Deshpande

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kunaldeshpande

Building applications and platforms that impact users and enterprises across the globe. I thrive in an environment where individuals are empowered to create positive impact through technology.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer, Platform @ Cribl
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco
Building the core platform to help organizations unlock the value of all observability data.

### Staff Software Engineer, Data / ML Platform @ Change.org
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco
Built a scalable recommendation system to automate distribution of high quality petitions to a relevant audience, tools to scale and streamline data and ML workflows.

* Set up a distributed system to enable large scale processing of petition, user and event data
* Implemented ETLs to capture, normalize and partition data in cloud object storage
* Designed and built a location and topic based recommendation system to automate distribution of high quality petitions to a relevant audience, optimizing conversions
* Designed and built tools to streamline research and deployment of ML/statistical models by simplifying and unifying the process of dataset & feature generation
* Mentored engineers on architecture and effective software engineering practices

Technologies
Scala, Spark, Elastic MapReduce, S3/Delta Lake, Kafka, Airflow

### Senior Software Engineer, Platform @ Crunchbase
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco
Built a scalable search platform allowing users and organizations to discover, research and follow companies.

* Designed and developed the transactional graph service supporting user contributions and data integrations
* Designed and developed the saved search and notifications services
* Contributed to metadata design, search and streaming ETL based on the CQRS pattern
* Mentored engineers on architecture and effective software engineering practices

Technologies
Scala, Akka (akka-streams, akka-http), Slick, jOOQ, PostgresSQL, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Redis

### Senior Software Engineer, Platform @ Boostable
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco
Built a cooperative marketing platform to empower merchants on online marketplaces. Boostable was part of YC W14 and acquired by Metric Collective in 2016. 

* Designed and developed the marketing platform by partnering with Facebook and Twitter
* Collaborated with cross functional teams (design, ad operations, sales & marketing) to envision the merchant and marketplace facing products
* Mentored engineers on architecture and product

Technologies
Scala, Javascript, Play framework, Slick, AngularJS, MySQL

### Senior Software Engineer, Applications @ Turn
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built the campaign and data management applications enabling marketers to plan, manage and execute campaigns efficiently. Turn was acquired by Amobee in 2017.

* Key early contributions to the campaign and data management applications
* Inventor of a system that allows advertisers to construct dynamic behavioral taxonomies by evaluating a stream of online events http://www.google.com/patents/US20140278748
* Lead engineering initiatives for Facebook and Video advertising
* Designed and developed a system to dynamically optimize creatives based on behavioral signals
* Mentored engineers on architecture and product

Technologies
Java, JavaScript, Spring, Hibernate, AngularJS, Oracle

### Applications Developer (Research Assistant) @ The University of Texas at Arlington
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
Developed a RESTful faculty/researcher profile service using PHP and MySQL

### Applications Developer (Intern) @ Qualcomm
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
Developed a data-center resource monitoring tool and an interactive on-call calendar for the enterprise services group.

Technologies: PHP, Javascript, Oracle & more


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Arlington

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Information Technology
University of Mumbai

### Bombay Scottish School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kunal-deshpande-32a4595

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Last updated: 2026-04-12