Vikash Kumar

Software Engineer

Redwood City, California, United States13 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

4.5 years in software development for storage and databases.
Key contributor to shared nothing solutions in cluster environments.
Expertise in Linux Kernel and UNIX system programming.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Linux Kernel/user Space DevelopmentDistributed Database SystemCluster ManagementScalability

Other Skills

CC++Cluster environmentCore JavaEclipseHTMLHigh AvailabilityJavaJavaScriptLinuxMySQLOperating SystemsPHPPerlProgramming

About

● 4.5 years of experience of software development in “storage domain and Distributed database system” ● Experienced in Linux Kernel/User space development and UNIX system programming. ● Key member of team that delivered shared nothing solution. ● Experienced in debugging and resolving scalability and performance issues. ● Hands on different automation tool salt, Terraform ● Debug-ability enhancements for Cluster Volume Manager. Skills : Programming Languages: C, C++ Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, AIX Tools: gdb, kdb, dbx, q4, crash,mdb Other Area: Data Structures, Algorithms, Object Oriented Systems Development, High Availability, Replication.

Experience

Pubmatic

Senior Principal Software Engineer II

Jun 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 9 mos · Redwood City, California, United States · On-site

CC++LinuxHigh AvailabilityStorage VirtualizationLinux Kernel/User space development+1

Symantec

2 roles

Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2014 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

> Worked on a Shared nothing solution feature in cluster environment. It enables cluster wide network sharing of local storage.
> Worked on scalability and resiliency feature for large node cluster (Upto 256 Nodes)
> Worked on Veritas cluster Agents that allow Cluster Server to monitor system and application resources.
> Developing and maintaining cluster wide reconfig operation (like join/leave/panic) protocol of nodes within a cluster.
>Working on supportability improvements in large cluster environment to detect and process hangs and panics as early as possible.
> Work involves enhancements for deploying large node clusters with reliability to scale up compute.

Cluster environmentScalabilityResiliencyVeritas cluster AgentsSupportability improvementsCluster management