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title: "Mohit Khairnar - Intermediate Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Mohit Khairnar, SDE-2 @ Q2 | Ex - OLA Krutrim | Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Observability | SIH’23 Winner | IIIT Bhopal ’24 | LeetCode (1670+) based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, codex, and gemini. Explore public work links including github."
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# Mohit Khairnar on Tal

## Headline

SDE\-2 @ Q2 \| Ex \- OLA Krutrim \| Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Observability \| SIH’23 Winner \| IIIT Bhopal ’24 \| LeetCode \(1670\+\)

## About

I am a Software Development Engineer with a strong background creating distributed and scalable backend systems\. I hold a B\.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIIT Bhopal \(CGPA 8\.71\)\. Over the past few years, I’ve worked extensively with Go, Python, Redis, Kubernetes, and distributed system design, contributing to: \- Building and scaling centralized IAM services for Krutrim Public Cloud, reducing latency to 8ms and improving security resilience\. \- Implementing cross\-account access and policy evaluation engines handling thousands of concurrent requests\. \- Designing secure and performant systems with caching, containerization, and horizontal scaling\. Beyond professional experience, I’ve also: \- Built Pro\-Judge, an online code judge platform with Dockerized sandboxing and scalable backend on AWS ECS\. \- Won the Smart India Hackathon 2023 for creating an AI\-based chatbot, AyurMitram\. \- Developed NASA’s 3D Solar System clone \(FRONTIER\) with models of Mangalyaan and ISS\. I’m passionate about cloud computing, distributed systems, and backend engineering, and I enjoy solving complex system challenges at scale\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

codex

gemini

github copilot

openai

## Work experience

Intermediate Software Engineer at Q2, Nov 2025 \- Present · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Development Engineer 1 \- Cloud at Krutrim, Jul 2024 \- Nov 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos, IAM Service: \- Developing the centralized IAM service for Krutrim Public Cloud, ensuring seamless user access, security and permission management across all Krutrim cloud services\. \- Integrated IAM service with Krutrim AI Cloud which handles complete Authentication and Authorization for onboarding users\. \- Developed OTP functionality for Krutrim AI Cloud, streamlining the user signin flow\. \- Integrated OLA Maps with the Krutrim AI Cloud to support the onboarding users on cloud to access the OLA Maps SDK\. \- Designed and developed the core components of an IAM service, focusing on user management, role\-based access control \(RBAC\), policy enforcement, and related mapping services\. \- Created and Optimized the policy evaluation engine to efficiently handle simultaneous requests from thousands of users, bringing the response time to 13\-15 ms\. \- Improved security resilience of IAM services by implementing strong caching strategies with Redis, reducing server load by 30%\. \- Developed the feature for cross account access which will restrict some resources to certain entities of trusted accounts\. \- Developed Programmatic Access feature for the IAM user by assuming the role attached and allowing permissions accordingly\. Cloud Metering Service: \- Developed the Heartbeat Service, a cloud\-native microservice within the cloud metering ecosystem, responsible for consuming and processing events from Kafka topics\. \- Designed and implemented batching and concurrent processing mechanisms using Go Routines to handle high volumes of events efficiently while maintaining system reliability\. \- Integrated event\-driven autoscaling using KEDA, leveraging Kafka consumer lag metrics to automatically scale the service based on workload demand\.

Software Engineer Intern at Krutrim, Mar 2024 \- Jun 2024 · 4 mos, \- Led the creation of initial phase of Centralized IAM service, specializing in user management, access control, and policy enforcement\. \- Developed core microservices such as users, groups, roles, policies and equivalent mappings\. \- Additionally, created a Ceph cluster deployment automation to automatically create a multi\-node/host ceph cluster to provide scalable and fault\-tolerant storage solutions for the cloud service\.

Software Engineer Intern at ByteLearn\.com, Dec 2022 \- Feb 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Remote, \- Developed a maintainable system for categorizing educational content using Python class\-based and mockup category implementation, resulting in a 30% reduction in development time for adding new content categories\. \- Demonstrated exceptional problem\-solving skills by resolving over 550 bugs in the backend, which included class\-based implementations and Jinja string templates, leading to a 20% increase in the overall stability of the system \- Created more than 5 categories using the Python class\-based implementation and Jinja string template engine of Python for generating dynamic text\-based formats and integrating them in JSON files\. \- Collaborating with the team and working with Jira, Bitbucket, and other Atlassian project management tools\.

Cloud Facilitator at Google Developer Student Clubs, Oct 2022 \- Jan 2023 · 4 mos, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Cloud Lead at Google Developer Student Clubs, Aug 2022 \- Jul 2023 · 1 yr, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, \- Organized and hosted sessions for the knowledge of cloud computing, especially for Google Cloud Platform \(GCP\)\. \- Provided necessary guidance to enthusiastic learners of the college\. \- Conducted activities such as quizzes related to basics of Google Cloud Platform\.

Full Stack Developer Intern at BurdenOff Consultancy Services, Jun 2022 \- Nov 2022 · 6 mos, Remote, \- Worked in core development team for building product which analyzes & optimizes time for businesses\. \- Authored backend modules named as channels, events and workflows for Global and Tenant server of backend using Typescript and GraphQL resulting in 30% reduction in server response time\. \- Optimized database queries with functions for ArangoDB, resulting in reduction in query execution time & improved overall database performance, thus improving the user\-experience\. \- Utilized Lit\.dev and Vite to build high\-performance web\-components, leading to a 15% reduction in page load time and improved overall frontend performance by employing Material Design 3\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Electronics And communication engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Bhopal

GNC English Medium School

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/mohittk

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