Kushal Khatri
Greater Los Angeles
Summary
CTO with 18 years of experience leading high-performance engineering teams and building
cutting-edge technologies in e-commerce and AdTech space. Proven track record in architecting large-scale
systems, fostering innovation, and driving consistent business growth through technology. Passionate about evolving engineering cultures, aligning technology with business strategy, and shaping AI-driven product experiences.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
CTO
Feedonomics (BigCommerce)
11.2023 - Current
VP of Engineering, Platform
BigCommerce/Feedonomics
06.2019 - Current
Senior Director of Engineering
Feedonomics (BigCommerce)
05.2021 - 12.2021
Director of Engineering
Feedonomics (BigCommerce)
03.2020 - 05.2021
- Partner with cross-functional executives and leaders to build cutting-edge e-commerce technology processing hundreds of TBs of data and trillions of rows monthly, driving 20% YoY business growth
- Scaled Engineering Org from 5 to 50 members
- Helped shape business vision and product strategy
- Directed development of scalable infrastructure to support consistent growth
- Shaped Product roadmap in collaboration with Product leadership
- Represented P&E strategy with partners, customers, and industry forums
- Re-architected infrastructure for enhanced performance and scalability
- Championed engineering culture and process maturity across teams
Tech Lead
Ad.Com Interactive Media AKA Web Design & Consulting Service
05.2016 - 06.2019
- Spearhead design and development of openRTB Real-time bidder on Lua/Redis/Nginx stack facilitating 350K+ QPS with fast response times across multiple geos
- Develop data analytics algorithms around impression winning patterns and user profiling to optimize RTB bidder and maximize profit
- Lead, manage and work hands-on with onshore and offshore tech teams to roll out various new products from design to testing phases
- Work with various stakeholders to understand business and user needs, transform ideas into product design and enhancements
- Attend tech conferences and seminars to learn and implement latest and greatest in the industry
Senior Software Engineer
Ad.Com Interactive Media AKA Web Design & Consulting Service
11.2010 - 05.2016
- Lead Design and development of AdMedia's self-serve Advertising platform along with Ad-matching engine for display, video, text and social media campaigns
- Developed a web crawler using LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) practices
- Developed various ad-tech applications and products like Browser Extensions, overlay, etc modelling ideas of online advertising
Web Developer
GSI Commerce Inc.
07.2009 - 11.2010
- Developed efficient web applications to help automate process of Supply Chain Management
- Worked on transforming applications written with C into partially automated web applications
PHP/MySQL Developer
Sperka International LLC
05.2008 - 06.2009
- Developed and maintained e-commerce websites including implementing shopping carts, site-wide search features, etc
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University Of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA2009
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
BSAITM (MD University)
Haryana, India2007
Skills
PHP, Lua, JavaScript, jQuery, Java, C, ActionScript 3
Data Storage
MySQL, Redis, Apache Cassandra, Memcache, MongoDB, Informix
Tools, Frameworks & Servers
CodeIgniter, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch/Logstash/Kibana (ELK), OpenResty, SVN
Linux, Nginx, Apache
JIRA, Confluence
Timeline
CTO
Feedonomics (BigCommerce)
11.2023 - Current
Senior Director of Engineering
Feedonomics (BigCommerce)
05.2021 - 12.2021
Director of Engineering
Feedonomics (BigCommerce)
03.2020 - 05.2021
VP of Engineering, Platform
BigCommerce/Feedonomics
06.2019 - Current
Tech Lead
Ad.Com Interactive Media AKA Web Design & Consulting Service
05.2016 - 06.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Ad.Com Interactive Media AKA Web Design & Consulting Service
11.2010 - 05.2016
Web Developer
GSI Commerce Inc.
07.2009 - 11.2010
PHP/MySQL Developer
Sperka International LLC
05.2008 - 06.2009
Master of Science - Computer Science
University Of Southern California
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
BSAITM (MD University)
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