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Naveen Kumar

Co-Founder

Redmond, Washington, United States8 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led impactful projects at AWS Redshift.
  • Founded Grab My Courses, aiding 6k+ students.
  • Pioneered Spring Boot microservices at Tata Health.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with strong expertise in Cloud Computing and EdTech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Aws RedshiftSystem DesignFull-stack DevelopmentCloud ComputingBack-end Development

Other Skills

AWSAWS LambdaAnalytical SkillsApplication Infrastructure DesignAuthentication ProtocolsC++CI/CDCommunicationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Deep LearningDistributed SystemsDockerGitGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)GraphQL

About

A passionate Software Engineer with ๐Ÿด+ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€ of experience in databases, backend and full-stack development. The prospect of creating fast-paced, bug-free, scalable and reliable software is where I have found my ultimate thrill. Some of the results from my previous experiences include: โœ… Tech lead at AWS Redshift Connectivity - delivered multiple impactful projects like IdC integration, IPv6 dualstack, ODBC driver ownership, E2E client auth and driver-server protocol ownership, collaboration with leading BI tool vendors, CI/CD modernization, and more technical leadership. โœ… Enhanced monitoring capabilities of ๐—™๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ & ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ'๐˜€ synthetic testing bots by mocking Google FCM, ensuring reliable delivery of ๐Ÿต๐Ÿฒ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป notifications/minute. โœ… Established grabmycourses.com from scratch within 1 month, now facilitating 6k+ daily active student users without any advertising effort. โœ… Pioneered the adoption of Spring Boot micro-services at Tata Health, leading the effort of developing 5 new and migrating 11 legacy services. As I continue improving myself, I have explored an increasing breadth and depth of numerous tech stacks with an open mind. I am proficient with different programming languages like ๐—๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ, ๐—ฃ๐˜†๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ป, ๐—–++, and and have solid hands-on experience in AWS ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฑ services. Gradually, I have come to realize that with the right learning mindset, programming language or framework is never a limitation. Apart from the core software development role, I love exploring other domains like Agentic AI development at my leisure. My colleagues often appreciate me for being able to frame great prompts to get best results from LLM models. Currently, I am also investing time in blogging and contributing to open-source development. I get excited about opportunities where I can raise the bar for myself, leverage my skills to solve complex problems and add greater value to the firm's offerings. I love connecting with people - reach me out here on LinkedIn, or ๐Ÿ“ž +1 480 937 8474, or ๐Ÿ“ง personal.naveenkumar@gmail.com.

Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

Software Development Engineer 2

Dec 2022 โ€“ Present ยท 3 yrs 3 mos ยท Redmond, Washington, United States ยท On-site

  • โ Architected and shipped end-to-end AWS Identity Center (AWS SSO) integration across Redshift server and 5 client drivers, now live in 1000+ enterprise customers clusters with zero post-GA production incidents.
  • โ Led org-wide supply chain & CI/CD modernization, cutting release cycle from 2.5 days to 0.5 day (80% improvement).
  • โ Sole owner of Redshift client authentication, rearchitectured client-side credential provider framework, resolving 5 long-standing auth issues, and paving way for rapid integration of 2 new identity providers.
  • โ Owning Redshift client-server wire protocol stack, fixed 7 defects (including 4 day-one issues), and extended the protocol to support new compression methods and auth mechanisms with backward compatibility.
  • โ Drove IPv6 dualstack readiness for Redshift data plane, designing and implementing Redshift drivers and backend enhancements to support IPv6 traffic, coordinating cross-org delivery with Control plane teams.
  • โ Collaborated with dev teams of external BI and Analytics tool vendors like Salesforce (Tableau), Microsoft (PowerBI), Google (Looker) to help them integrate Redshift connectors, increasing mutual customer adoption by 87%.
  • โ Demonstrated high-impact operational excellence resolving 27 SEV2 issues impacting Fortune 500 enterprise customers.
  • โ Volunteered as an AWS Security guardian - completed comprehensive security assessment for 5 cross-functional projects, identifying vulnerabilities early in design phase, and ensuring compliance with AWS security best practices.
AWS RedshiftAuthentication ProtocolsSecuritySystem DesignAWSCI/CD

Meta

System Software Engineer

May 2022 โ€“ Aug 2022 ยท 3 mos ยท Greater Seattle Area

  • โ Worked with Messaging Infra Production Engineering team to enhance monitoring capabilities of the Facebook and Instagram synthetic testing bots by incorporating fallback notification support. Connected with the Push Infra stack, this highly distributed alternative channel ensures reliable delivery of an average of 96M notifications/minute.
  • Tech - C++, HTTP Protocol, Forward Proxy, GraphQL
  • โ Mocked Google FCM service to reduce third-party dependency in Meta's Messaging Foundation testing ecosystem. The new mocking service integrated with the Facebook social graph using Graph API, Apache thrift, and Async HTTP protocol (skipping forward proxy), reduced on-call dev debugging effort by 37%.
  • Tech - Hacklang/PHP, Python, Web Security
  • โ Boosted fault tolerance of global Push Notification service by adding a new fallback mechanism switch to utilize the native OS notification system supported by browsers and mobile/PC devices hosting Facebook and Instagram apps.
  • Tech - Java, Tupperware, System Design
C++GraphQLJavaSystem Design

Grab my courses

Founder

May 2021 โ€“ Present ยท 4 yrs 10 mos ยท United States

  • โ Grab My Courses (GMC) facilitates college students grab the courses that they are really interested in. A lot of colleges have very limited seats and way too many students competing for those seats. We intend to help such students by notifying them about open seats in their preferred courses. It also provides a platform to help students exchange their courses with fellow classmates.
  • โ Currently, this utility is available for ASU only and was developed from scratch and maintained by me alone for almost more than a year. Now we have expanded to a team of 4 developers working vigorously to expand our offerings to other schools. We were able to help 2k+ students last year. Students have access to multiple notification modes like email, text, push, or voice call notifications depending on the subscription they opt for (beta feature).
  • โ Tech stack: Spring Boot, ReactJs, Bootstrap, MySQL, Twilio for voice call notifications, Amazon Web Services (AWS) like Simple Email Service (SES), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Simple Notification Service (SNS), Relational Database Service (RDS), Lambda, Route 53, Cloudwatch, Elastic Beanstalk and Amplify.
  • Github repo: https://github.com/grabmycourses/grab-my-courses-frontend
Spring BootReactJsMySQLAWSFull-Stack DevelopmentCloud Computing

University technology office at arizona state university

Full Stack Developer

Feb 2021 โ€“ Dec 2022 ยท 1 yr 10 mos ยท Arizona, United States

  • โ Syllabus Creator app: Volunteered to revamp the legacy Syllabus app. The new app would be used by faculties and admin staff across ASU to create and upload syllabi for 1000s of classes offered by the university.
  • Tech - React, AWS Lambda, Jenkins, Terraform
  • โ ASU public course catalog: Achieved higher outreach for ASU by implementing the new public course catalog (link attached).
  • Tech - React, Typescript, Bootstrap, RESTful APIs
  • โ Class search Admin dashboard: Developed a new dashboard that is now being used by curriculum admins for updating class search portal information across all 11 ASU campuses.
  • Tech - React, Bootstrap
  • โ ERP Integration APIs for Peoplesoft team: Implemented APIs that generate daily reports - syncing ASU financial data from Workday. This integration enabled 2 new financial dashboards, enhanced transparency in the system, and bridged the information gap between the university's stakeholders.
  • Tech - Java, Mulesoft, Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD pipeline, AWS
ReactAWS LambdaJavaMulesoftFull-Stack Development

Tata health

Back End Developer

Jun 2017 โ€“ Dec 2020 ยท 3 yrs 6 mos ยท Bengaluru Area, India

  • โ Achievements: Server-side Architecture, Design, and Development; Maintenance, Code reviews & Mentoring
  • โ Spring Boot adoption Initiative: Single-handedly, initiated the adoption of Spring Boot as a replacement for existing Spring services; Apart from working on a new tech that hardly had any proper documentation at that time, I also had the responsibility of standardizing project configurations for future developers at the company. This reduced development and DevOps efforts by 32%.
  • โ Ownership: Delivered 5 Spring Boot micro-services from architecture design to deployment, thus owning 5 core features of our healthcare startup product- Chat, Appointment, Specialist consultation, Consumer onboarding, and SSO. I worked on these 5 services alone for almost 1-2 years and had the responsibility of maintaining them thereafter.
  • โ Development and Maintenance: Contributed to a total of 16 robust, secure and scalable microservices; these multi-tenant RESTful APIs now support over a million customers and 200+ doctors; Some of the most impactful tasks included Database PII and PHI encryption and query optimizations.
  • โ Customer Support: As part of customer issues resolution, I fixed a total of 289 critical customer support ticket issues, closing 87% of issues on the reporting day itself.
  • โ Third-party integrations: Being a startup we had many 3rd party service integrations in place. I engineered complete backend integration of 3rd parties like Justdial (increased new leads by 31%), Pusher (reduced live chatโ€™s latency by up to 250%), and Vauchar (boosted sales and user engagement by 44%).
  • โ Tech stack: Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Maven, Git, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Solr, Jira
Spring BootJavaMySQLBack-End Development

National highway authority of india

Summer Intern

May 2016 โ€“ Jun 2016 ยท 1 mo ยท Nagpur Area, India

  • โ Full-stack website development, Analysis, and research on "RFID based FASTag solution" adopted by the Government of India for Electronic Toll Collection on National Highways

Education

Arizona State University

Master of Science - MS โ€” Computer Science

Jan 2021 โ€“ Dec 2022

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Bachelor of Technology - BTech โ€” Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 2013 โ€“ Jan 2017

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya - JNV

11th and 12th Standard

Jan 2011 โ€“ Jan 2013

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya - JNV

6th to 10th standard @ JNV Haridwar โ€” Primary schooling

Jan 2006 โ€“ Jan 2011

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