Keshav Kumar

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over three years of leadership in observability and management.
Contributed to enterprise data science platforms impacting Fortune 100 companies.
Expertise in ML Ops and scalable architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong capabilities in ML Ops and observability.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

KafkaObservabilityMl Ops

Other Skills

Kafka StreamsKubernetesApache KafkaConfluentApache FlinkModel HostingModel MonitoringTimescaleDbopentelemetryCloud-Native ArchitectureSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Scalable ArchitectureData StructuresAlgorithmsDatabase Design

About

At Confluent, my leadership extends over three years in building a robust platform for management and observability, leveraging competencies in open telemetry and Prometheus. My role encompasses driving our platform to new heights of operational excellence and ensuring seamless integration with cutting-edge technologies. Previously, my efforts at Domino Data Lab contributed to their enterprise data science platform's competitive edge, directly impacting Fortune 100 companies. There, I honed my skills in model hosting and monitoring, re-engineering storage solutions to enhance performance and scalability, indicative of my mission to deliver resilient and efficient systems. A Yoga practitioner and Certified Yoga teacher but I would rather call myself a student of Yoga.

Experience

13 yrs

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs

Current Experience

Confluent

Engineering Manager, Control Plane & Observability

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Building the Control Plane for Confluent Platform.
On-Prem Observability & Management using Confluent Control Center.
https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/control-center/index.html
Cloud Observability for On-Prem clusters using Confluent Health+
https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/health-plus/index.html

Kafka StreamsKubernetesApache KafkaConfluentApache FlinkKafka+1

Domino data lab

Tech Lead Manager - ML Ops Engineering

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Domino's enterprise data science platform is used by 20% of the Fortune 100 companies. It competes with giants like AWS Sagemaker and Azure ML. I am part of the Model Ops engineering which is responsible for publishing, hosting and monitoring of machine learning models.
Model Hosting: I evaluated adoption of kubernetes native third party hosting frameworks like seldon, kubeflow/kserve for hosting models.
Model Monitoring: Re-engineered the storage layer of model monitoring platform to solve problems of query performance, scale and availability by adopting, tuning and operationalizing TimescaleDb, a time series database on top of Postgres.

Vahan inc.

Engineering Manager, Growth

Mar 2020 – Sep 2020 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Vahan's jobseeker platform is enabling the next billion internet users in emerging markets connect to relevant opportunity. Bootstrapped the engineering processes to support two fold growth of the engineering team. Worked with consultants in data engineering, product management and UI/UX to fast-track product development.

Software Engineer, Notification Platform

Nov 2017 – Nov 2019 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Part of Communications Platform Team at LinkedIn which is responsible for sending communication to around 600 million LinkedIn members over multiple channels like email, push, sms with support for both synchronous and asynchronous delivery. It serves requests at around 600k QPS across 4 data centres across the world. It provides an ecosystem to other teams within LinkedIn to self service their use cases like campaign creation and management, tracking conversions, monitoring failures etc.

Directi

Software Engineer, Apps Platform

Aug 2015 – Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Flock is a SaaS-based enterprise communication application aimed at disrupting the communication space with its rich and powerful integrations.
1. Design and development of the web service that powers the flock app store where users can configure integration with the third-party applications like github, trello, asana and so on. This allows users to get notified of events and access information from within Flock.
2. Leveraging the Flock developer platform to build deep integration with third-party applications.(Eg: uber, google drive, google calendar etc)

Goldman sachs

Quantitative Analyst Developer

Jun 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

Contributed to following divisions:
1. Quantitative Investment Strategies - Data Platform
The data platform gets time sensitive market data from various sources and curates them into its data stores which act as a single source of truth for various systems used by the Quantitative Systems to analyze and execute trades.
2. Investment Guidelines Platform:
Guidelines Platform facilitates real-time, distributed, high volume, low latency rule evaluation service to the traders. I worked closely with the Strategists to improve the rule evaluation algorithm to increase accuracy.

Oracle server technologies

Member Technical Staff, Oracle Cloud Infra

Jun 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Contributed to framework development for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM or EM) is a set of web-based tools aimed at managing and monitoring services running on over 40k VM's on the Oracle Cloud. Oracle Enterprise Manager performs much of its activity through intelligent agents refers to as Oracle Management Agents. These run as autonomous proxy processes on a managed node, and perform execution and monitoring tasks for Oracle Enterprise Manager, communicating over http.