Nishant Kumar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly StableAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in building low-latency distributed systems.
Proven leadership in managing global engineering teams.
Innovator in real-time ad serving technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer in Ad Tech and Data & AI sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsLarge Scale SystemsAdvertisingEngineering Process

Other Skills

Ad TechAerospikeAlgorithmsApache KafkaApache SparkArchitectureBig DataBusiness RequirementsCC++CassandraCentOSCoaching & MentoringCommunicationCore Java

About

I have a strong passion for science and technology. * Extensive experience in conceptualizing, designing and implementing highly available, large-scale, low-latency distributed systems capable of handling millions of requests per second with millisecond latency. * Skilled in managing vast amounts of data, including petabytes. * Possess a strong understanding of operating systems, intricate system design, networking, and hardware. * Proven track record in leadership, project management, team development, and recruitment. * Experienced in building, nurturing, and overseeing small to medium-sized teams dispersed globally. Specialties: Distributed Systems, Large-Scale Systems, Big Data, Real-Time Low-Latency Systems, SQL, NoSQL, JVM, System Tuning, Application Profiling, Algorithms, Data Structures, Scala, Java, C++, Golang, Lua, C#.

Experience

13 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

Data Infra (Data & AI platform):
Leading:
Gateway Platform (GAAP)
Takeout/DMA
Data Integration Library (DIL)
AI assited migration pipeline - LLM, MCP, RAG, AST, AI

Distributed SystemsLarge Scale SystemsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Gen aiTechnology RoadmappingHigh Availability Architecture+10

Kayzen

2 roles

Principal Engineer

Apr 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Shaping technology selection and roadmap for the company
Developed In-house fast and scalable web server framework "Pawan" which is the backbone of our real-time ad server which handles millions of ad requests per second in millisecond latency.
Developed a near real-time critical budgeting system that efficiently handles the ad budget.

Distributed SystemsEngineering ProcessAdvertisingTeam LeadershipLeadershipRedis+9

Technical Lead

Jan 2019 – Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

I lead the RTB (Real-time Bidding) Platform team & Infrastructure team which works with large-scale low latency distributed systems handling millions of QPS in millisecond latency and processing petabytes of data in our own private data centers.

Distributed SystemsEngineering ProcessAdvertisingTeam LeadershipLeadershipRedis+8

Applift

2 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Aug 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Technical Lead of RTB (Real-time Bidding) Platform -
Building highly available(HA) large-scale low latency systems that handle ~Million Request/sec with millisecond latency.
Managing multi-datacenter infrastructure having hundreds of server.
Managing & mentoring team of developer/QA/DevOps.
Collaborating with the business & product.

Engineering ProcessTeam LeadershipRedisApache KafkaAlgorithmsPresentations+5

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2015 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked in Real-time Ad-serving bidder platform team on high performance large scale low latency multi tier distributed systems (CentOS, Nginx + LUA, Aerospike, Cassandra, HA, Elastic search, Spark Streaming, Kafka, InfluxDB, clickhouse, MySQL etc).

AlgorithmsPresentationsCommunicationAd Tech

Samsung electronics

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2015 – Nov 2015 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked in X-Ray & Ultrasound team. Developed back-end servers for two ultrasound models.

AlgorithmsPresentations

Software Engineer

Sep 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked in DICOM platform team in HME (Healthcare & Medical equipment) group. Developed DICOM base libraries and SDKs (Windows, C++, CLI, C#, Boost, RPC, WCF, DICOM).

Algorithms

Kony labs

Associate Software Engineer

Sep 2012 – Aug 2013 · 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Mobile App developer for Banks (Eclipse, Web services, Tomcat, web scraping)
Web scraping (Java, X-path)

Indian institute of technology, kharagpur

Summer Research Intern

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

I worked here as a summer research intern. My research topic was "Designing, developing, and implementing a delay-tolerant routing protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSN)" (Ubuntu, C++, Tcl, AquaSim, gnuplot).