Nirmal Kumawat — CEO
Nirmal brings more than a decade of experience in the software industry, with expertise ranging from low-level systems to modern distributed cloud systems. Nirmal has filed and published >20 US patents and research papers at various conferences including IEEE. He has also presented at prestigious events such as Adobe MAX-Sneak, Siggraph, Eurographics, Atypi, AWS user group meetups etc. Some of his notable achievements include: - Building AI/ML Platform with model-serving capabilities for real-time inference, including search infrastructure to enhance search relevance and aggregate search results from first- and third-party sources. - Building a large-scale transactional data platform with AWS DynamoDB, handling approximately ~1.5 billion requests daily. - Architecting the partition migration capability for Atlassian's Transactiondal Data Platform. - Implementing a data-usage opt-out policy for Tecton ML feature-engineering workspaces to prevent data misuse during model training and inference. - Enhancing reliability by tenfold for large-scale bootstrap and real-time data processing pipelines between Jira Monolith and Analytics platform, resolving critical customer issues related to data quality and completeness while collaborating with over 20 stakeholders. - Improving performance by 80% for cloud-fonts preview in font menu of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop through a smart caching mechanism. - Delivering pioneering font features (such as Variable Fonts and Color Fonts) in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, directly benefiting millions of Adobe customers & driving revenue growth for Adobe. Nirmal is proficient in Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, the AWS cloud stack, SQL/NoSQL databases (including Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, Memcache, and S3), OLAP datastores, Apache Kafka, Zookeeper, Spark, Flink, GitHub, Bitbucket, Spinnaker, Splunk, Docker, and other tools essential for developing modern distributed cloud systems. He leads engineering teams with efficiency, delivering high-impact results at a fast pace without compromising on quality. Nirmal excels in architecting and designing both low- and high-level systems, building scalable microservices, managing operations, enhancing reliability and performance, and solving complex problems. Nirmal mentors junior engineers, guiding them in their software engineering careers through one-on-one sessions and blogs. Nirmal has been awarded by REYA'2023 award (Recognizing Excellence in Young Alumni) by his Alma Mater, IIT Jodhpur for contributing towards technology innovation at Adobe.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on distributed systems and cloud computing.
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Experience: 17 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Distributed Systems
- Mlops
- Cloud Computing
- Microservices
- Android
Career Highlights
- Filed and published over 20 US patents.
- Enhanced reliability tenfold for data processing pipelines.
- Delivered pioneering font features benefiting millions of Adobe customers.
Work Experience
Airbnb
Tech Lead (1 yr 9 mos)
Atlassian
Tech Lead (3 yrs 1 mo)
Adobe
Computer Scientist II (6 yrs 5 mos)
Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore
Software Engineer (5 mos)
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO)
Scientist (2 yrs)
DRDO Internship (2 mos)
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
B.tech Project (3 yrs 9 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur