Parveen Kaler
Engineering Leader Earnin Canada Site Lead @EarnIn
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WORK HISTORY
Engineering Leader Earnin Canada Site Lead @EarnIn
CA
Leadership & Team Management: Lead three engineering teams (12+ direct reports) responsible for critical layers of EarnIn\'s mobile product and transaction ingestion. Spearhead efforts on:Orchestration Service for iOS and Android home screens. Ensuring data freshness and data-as-a-product.Mobile UI ownership of home, customer support, and settings screens. Optimizing for usability and retention.Ingestion Service integration. Efficiently consuming bank transactions from providers like Plaid and publishing to downstream services.Key Projects & Achievements:Customer Experience Optimization: Reduced customer support tickets by 50%, improving 12 month retention by an absolute 5%.Data Freshness Improvements: Improved worst case data freshness from an abysmal 6hours to < 1min for the orchestration service. Reduced DynamoDB/Redis/Kubernetes costs by 90%.Custom Internal Tools Development: Led the creation of an internal tools platform (TypeScript, Next.js, React), effectively replacing Retool and improving development workflows.iOS Technology Migration: Led a comprehensive iOS app migration from UIKit to SwiftUI, modernizing the app architecture for better performance and maintainability.SRE Leader: Consistently manage the highest number of pages and incidents, ensuring rapid response and resolution.Kafka/Confluent Infrastructure Ownership: Managed Kafka topic design and company-wide implementation while negotiating key agreements with Confluent, optimizing streaming data infrastructure.Culture & Growth Leadership: As the first Vancouver hire, built a cohesive and collaborative team culture that aligns with EarnIn’s Palo Alto headquarters while embracing the values of the local office.
EDUCATION
Simon Fraser University
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science
SKILLS
ABOUT PARVEEN KALER
Product-focused engineering leader with extensive experience in recruiting, onboarding, and growing high-performing engineering teams. Adept at collaborating with product and executive leadership to define culture, vision, and strategy, while also being hands-on with execution and delivery.Proven ability to manage managers and mentor cross-functional team members, fostering growth and success at all levels.More than 20 years of software development experience across many platforms including AWS/Kubernetes, iOS, Android, Web, Mac, PC, Xbox 360, Sony PS3, and Sony PSP. Polyglot programmer with hands-on experience shipping code in numerous languages and frameworks.Strong cloud computing and distributed systems experience. Built and operated orchestration and ingestion fintech services at consumer scale. Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, DynamoDB, Redis at scale.Over 16 years of experience building mobile applications, including large-scale enterprise projects serving millions of daily active users. Owned the Product Page of Walmart\'s US iPhone App. Currently own the Home Screen of EarnIn\'s Mobile Apps.Skilled in leading startup teams from inception to version 1.0, including building growth strategies, managing product and project lifecycles, setting metrics, and engaging directly with customers.Based in Vancouver, Canada where I completed a Bachelor of Science in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University.
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