Rinkal Kevat

Rinkal Kevat is a seasoned creative product developer and technologist with over 15 years of experience, known for leading stellar teams in creating products catering to millions of users in India for their entertainment needs.

His expertise lies in data management and content product development, focusing on scalable, hybrid, fault-tolerant systems distributed across multiple geographical locations, which form the core of BookMyShow's technology infrastructure.

Rinkal's projects including Personalization & Recommendation engine, Buzz Feed, Seat occupancy and penetration tracker, Review & Ratings, and Clickstream, now cater to over 80 million users, facilitating their entertainment bookings seamlessly.

His technical specialties include MS SQL, MySQL, NoSQL, Big Data, Hadoop Eco system (Kafka, Storm, HBase, Hive), MongoDB, Elastic Search, Data Caching (Redis, Memcache), Queue Management Systems, Microsoft .NET, PHP, C#, and currently focusing on Golang for robust processing.

Rinkal holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering, both secured with First Class distinction from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat.

Throughout his career, Rinkal has held key positions in reputable organizations such as Senior Director Engineering at WazirX, DGM Product Engineering, Assistant General Manager of Engineering, Technical Team Lead, and Sr. Software Engineer at BookMyShow.com. Additionally, he was also a Co-Founder at Crew Technologies.