Kishore Kumar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

Founded India's largest ICPC training camp.
Achieved significant speedup in C++ stdlib optimization.
Won multiple global engineering hackathons.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in databases and performance engineering.

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DatabasesDistributed SystemsBig DataOperating SystemsLinuxCMakeC (Programming Language)Numerical Linear AlgebraRacketMongoDBExpress.jsReact.jsNode.jsAtlasDocker

About

Database & LLM stuff @ Databricks. Once a competitive programmer (Codeforces Master, ICPC Asia-West Finalist). I also once founded India’s then-largest ICPC training camp. I write about databases, ML, finance, and performance engineering. I like making code run a lot faster than it should. Been pretending to do research since 2022.

Experience

4 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Databricks

2 roles

Software Engineer IV

Promoted

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

Building our unified online schema migration infrastructure for multi-cloud, multi-DBMS environments at scale.

Software Engineer III

Jul 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

Wrote the Scala-DSPy library and designed an agentic RCA framework for database incidents, setting org-wide LLM integration patterns. Improved SQL query scoring and optimization systems across MySQL & TiDB environments. Won 3 consecutive global eng hackathons (#2, #1, #2).

Uber

Software Engineer

May 2023 – Jul 2023 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Designed and implemented a parallelized, fault-tolerant data pipeline with redundancy, DQ checks, and monitoring. Built using PySpark, Piper and HDFS enabling the secure migration of 50+ TB, our team's largest migration to date.

International institute of information technology hyderabad (iiith)

3 roles

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2023 – May 2023 · 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Computer Systems Organisation Teaching Assistant.

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2022 – Dec 2022 · 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Algorithm Analysis and Design Teaching Assistant.

Programming Club Coordinator

Jan 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Founded India’s largest ICPC training camp involving 4000 students across top IITs, BITS & IIITs.
Designed challenging problem sets for contests with 20k+ global participants on platforms like CodeForces and CodeChef.
Delivered many lectures on data structures & algorithms topics for over 120 students.

Google summer of code

C++ Developer

May 2022 – Sep 2022 · 4 mos · Remote

Optimized HPX’s stdlib implementation by improving compiler codegen (GCC, Clang & ICPX), achieving an 8× AVX256 & 16× AVX512 speedup. Implemented the par_unseq & unseq policies for <algorithm>, contributing to the C++ std.