Karan Thukral Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Improved lifecycle handling of application databases including proper garbage collection of wasted resources leading to cost savings & reduction in manual toil during cluster evacuations.
• Led project to improve product resiliency during a datacenter outage with a failover time of under 5 minutes.
• Created playbooks to improve the process of cluster creation and evacuation. Ran game days to test and improve the playbooks with theteam.
• Led project to enable TXT validation for custom domains including migrating existing domains without downtime.
• Implemented the build pipeline for serverless functions within the App Platform.
• Expanded support for App Platform to Toronto & London.

• Reduced deploy time of the core application from 35 minutes to under 17 minutes by leading a project that built a centralized deploy scheduler.
• Implemented Redis instance migrations across clusters in under 5 minutes.
• Built user friendly tooling for automated application failovers used during incidents and for infrastructure maintenance.
• Leveraged application metrics and ongoing incidents to make infrastructure deploys safer by implementing custom deploy strategies.
• Modernized the application platform infrastructure according to resiliency best practices by championing project to migrate 400+ services to newly created Kuberenetes clusters.
• Led project to ensure infrastructure readiness leading into the holiday season by taking into account capacity requirements and readiness of the application failover tooling.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Migrated multiple business critical applications to the new internal application platform.
• Reduced the impact of noisy neighbour using a custom Kubernetes controller to manage the creation of resource quota}, and limit ranges for application namespaces.
• Improved deploy tooling by adding rollout monitoring for daemon sets, stateful sets, resource quotas, and more through upstream contributions to https://github.com/shopify/krane.
• Reduced support burden on the team by making it easier to debug deploy failures through improved error handling for invalid Procfile entries in https://github.com/gliderlabs/herokuish.
• Reduced container build times from 5 minutes tounder a minute by leveraging the container cache, speeding up deploys and making it faster to scale up applications.
• Built a user interface for developers to monitor application health and status without requiring knowledge of the inner workings of the platform or Kubernetes.

Ottawa, Canada Area

- Working on the Developer Infrastructure team under the Production Engineering organization- Developing functionality to allow developers to access production fidelity data in their development environment- Worked on Tophat on Demand, which starts an instance of Shopify on demand on AWS using a specified branch. This allows developers to quickly tests.

Waterloo, ON

• I am currently volunteering as a Mentor for St. Davids CSS, Waterloo FIRST Team (Team Dave 3683).
• As a Mentor I’m working with my fellow mentors to help the students to come up with ideas and then design a Robot that would be able to maneuver a 24in exercise ball and score it in different areas of the field as per.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Developed features for Shopify for iPhone application and Shopify Point of Sale.
• Designed and developed better tools for the support team to help Shopify retail customers.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Developed a native iOS News application using the iOS 7 SDK and CBC backend
• Created an HTML parser in Objective C to dynamically layout views and format the content
• Collaborated with designers to ensure pixel perfect UI

Waterloo, ON

• Responsible for creation and execution of Manual Software Tests on new and existing features of Kik Messenger
• Developed test scripts utilizing iOS UIAutomation (JavaScript) and Android Calabash framework (Gherkin and Ruby)
• Worked closely with developers to identify and push issues through to verification
• Managed the reporting and tracking of bugs through web services like Trello, Fogbugz, Asana
• Developed Kik Cards (Mobile Web) applications - Kik-Tech-News and Kik-Your-Memes

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Systems Design Engineering

I recently graduated from Systems Design Engineering, which focuses not only the technical knowledge but also on the design process and.

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