Kunal Kanu

Managed end-to-end development of a WhatsApp live location sharing feature, defining product requirements, payloads, error handling, and UAT criteria to support a smooth rollout to 200+ active users. Streamlined stakeholder-to-engineering communication for a 4-developer team and improved roadmap execution, contributing to about an 18% reduction in support requests.

Led the full release cycle for three regional markets, writing release scripts and maintaining build checklists to ship stable builds on time. Owned production incident response and reduced average incident response time by 20% over two quarters; also used ReTA and SQL to validate BI outputs and drive feature proposals that improved engagement by nearly 15%.

Supported digital marketing and social media campaigns by optimizing content strategy and providing technical support for social platforms, enhancing digital engagement.

Delivered UI rollouts and feature fixes across Fire TV, Android TV, and mobile for platforms serving millions of users, reproducing bugs in Android Studio and pushing verified fixes through the SDLC pipeline. Supported 3 consecutive regional deployments by tracking build status across environments and unblocking the pipeline when pre-release checks flagged defects; maintained sprint artifacts and

Produced written content and creative content deliverables, including coding-related materials, for Indian Society for Technical Education.

Mentored 110+ students with an average rating of 4.8/5 and solved 1.2K+ Operating System doubts, improving students' understanding of core concepts.

Pursuing a Masters in Management at Bayes Business School with a focus on Product Management, Business Analytics, and Advanced Strategy Analysis.

Grade: 9.79 / 10

Earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Chitkara University (9.79/10), covering Data Structures, Algorithms, and Database Management Systems.