Athitya Kumar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led multiple high-impact projects at Intuit.
  • Expert in full-stack web development and data reliability.
  • Recognized for contributions to open-source initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software engineer with expertise in data reliability and full-stack development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Apache KafkaJavaAmazon Elastic Mapreduce (emr)Open-source SoftwareScalaSpring BootApache SparkAws

Other Skills

React.jsJavaScriptEvent Driven ProgrammingTeam LeadershipApache FlinkOpenAPI Specification (OAS)Go (Programming Language)SDK developmentCypressPython3KubernetesDjangoAmazon Web Services (AWS)WebSocketTogetherJS

About

Hey there, reader! I'm a graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (batch of 2019). I'm currently employed at Intuit India. There are many personas to me, and here are some that co-exist peacefully - (1) The Web Developer "me", likes to build full-stack and responsive websites. He's tired of conventional Bootstrap & PHP - and rather prefers Semantic-UI & Ruby-on-rails. However, even after 2 years experience, he can often be found ranting about the ever-increasing number of new JavaScript frameworks to be learned, when asked to choose from JQuery, AngularJS, MeteorJS, ReactJS. (2) The Programmer / Software Developer "me", likes to build functional and useful scripts of Ruby & Python. The fields of these scripts consists of Image Processing, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Web Scraping, Social Media API, Growth Hacking & what not! Most of the scripts can be found open-sourced on GitHub. (3) The Coffee Lover "me", is just a persona that is induced by the above two personas, to keep away from sleep and to battle the rants of the above two personas on a day-to-day basis. (4) The Chess Maniac "me", likes playing Chess matches and solving tactic puzzles of Chess. (5) The Carnatic Vocalist "me", acts as another stress buster along with the remaining personas. (6) The Fanboy "me" likes watching & discussing many TV Series', such as - The Flash, The Arrow, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Big Bang Theory, etc. (7) The Grammar Nazi "me" likes the English language in general and shalt mercilessly correct your grammar/spelling mistakes. He also likes reading novels and is in charge of writing the blog posts. Oh, and he goes by the pen name of "Vibe".

Experience

8 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
3 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Intuit india

5 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Worked on the Palantir Foundry track:
  • Led the team & collaborated with Architects & Foundry engineers, to evaluate Foundry as a product offering
  • Delivered Foundry Onboarding Platform (FOP) as a paved path for any Intuit teams to onboard to Palantir Foundry with all the required user & data access guardrails
  • Enabled "Intuit Signals" use-case to leverage Palantir Foundry in a secure manner via FOP, driving a potential $4m in efficiencies & $20m in new revenue in 1st year
  • Took an internal mobility, to have an expanded scope to lead the Data Reliability track:
  • Led Data Quality: Stepped up to re-architect, modernise and lead the team in delivering new Data Quality platform across the stack; enabling critical business data & go-to market teams to ensure that tax-critical datasets, dashboards & marketing campaigns are built on top of Clean & Reliable data.
  • Owned Data Observability: Defined a concept of "Golden Signals" for Data Pipelines, by stitching Data Quality health of the produced Data assets and Pipeline health of the Realtime/Batch pipelines; to be further leveraged to create incident management process around critical Big Data incidents.
  • Recognition:
  • Won the Intuit India Annual Award for FY25
Apache KafkaApache SparkJavaSpring BootReact.jsJavaScript+4

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2022Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Took an internal mobility, and worked on the Batch Processing Platform (BPP):
  • Features & Operational Excellence: - Led the AWS EMR Runtime of BPP, improved the performance & cost of the EMR workload by 10% via gp3 EBS adoption. Owned & delivered multiple features related to BPP Collections to ease the operational management of Data Pipelines. Improved the query performance for the Micro-services via systematic debugging & optimized DB queries, reducing CPU utilization by ~70%.
  • Led stakeholder management for customers in India: Grew a team of 4 Contractors in BPP India, on-boarded & actively led them on OpEx tracks to improve platform resilience. Drove UIP-BPP OpMechs from the BPP side, closely collaborating & understanding the different use-cases of UIP, grooming & prioritising the feature requests from BPP & implementing them in a timely manner for Customer Delight. Expanded my charter for the BPP Adoption track of Data Insights org, along with UIP.
  • Worked on Data Lineage, powering Intuit's journey towards Clean Data:
  • Led Data Lineage Capture track: Designed and architected the end-to-end solution for lineage capture mechanism for various Intuit systems/platforms, by collaborating with multiple cross-functional groups. Led the team to deliver 3 SDKs and 1 API for capturing lineage, in an event-driven real-time architecture. The inner-source readiness and extensive documentations have enabled 20+ teams at Intuit to adopt and publish lineage. Led the team with operational efforts to setup monitoring, and contributing to open-source (OpenLineage)
  • Led the team in making inner-source contributions for adopting Lineage SDKs in 3 Data platforms (UIP, BPP & Superglue)
  • Led the cross-geo collaboration with Data Quality & Go-To Market teams, to power Data Reliability on top of Data Lineage - for running marketing campaigns backed with more reliable data.
  • Recognition:
  • Issued US Patent Number #11,468,642
  • Won the Intuit India SuperStar Award for FY24.Q2
Apache KafkaApache SparkJavaSpring BootOpen-Source SoftwareReact.js+7

Software Engineer - 2

Promoted

Feb 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Stepped up to lead more tracks of the Unified Ingestion Platform (UIP):
  • Kickstarted the Self-Healing module, to improve the Operational Excellence (reduce MTTD/MTTR), which now self-heals multiple types of alerts due to the extendable design. Self-Healing has also reduced considerable on-call efforts, resulting in Developer Productivity.
  • Drove the Full-Stack Revamp of the Self-Serve experience of the platform. Reduced the new onboarding efforts by 5x: By improving the user workflows, adding better Self‑Serve automation, kick‑starting Cypress Integration Tests and adding Tech Maturity documentation.
  • Led the SOX compliance track for the Batch Ingestion module of UIP: Contributed to the new Data Parity & Repair requirements, onboarded UIP to a new Intuit-wide scheduling & runtime platform called BPP (Batch Processing Platform) & inner-sourced a shared "sox-cli" library for multiple Platform Teams within Intuit to re-use for enabling auditing as part of their CI/CD
  • Led migration of the UIP Batch Ingestion jobs from a legacy scheduler to Intuit's Batch Processing Platform (BPP): Drove design discussions across both UIP & BPP platforms to figure out various alternatives & pros/cons, proactively bridged the gaps for the platform-on-platform setup, enabled Orchestration Automation of UIP Batch Ingestion jobs via BPP APIs for new Ingestion onboardings, and also led the migration of a major chunk of existing UIP jobs to BPP.
  • Led the efforts from different modules of UIP, for simultaneously ingesting from both Oracle & Postgres sharded sources to the Data Lake. This is part of an Intuit-wide effort, that enables Intuit QuickBooks data to be safely moved from one source type to another source type.
  • Recognition:
  • Won the Intuit India SuperStar Award for FY22.Q2
ScalaReact.jsCypressJavaPython3Spring Boot+4

Software Engineer - 1

Aug 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Joined the Unified Ingestion Platform (UIP), which ingests Data from multiple sources (MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, Oracle, File, DynamoDB, Cassandra, etc) to the Data Lake via CDC (Change Data Capture) for consumption by Data Analysts, Data Warehouses, AI/ML Teams & Dashboards.
  • Worked on different modules of UIP: Data Parity, Platform Monitoring, DynamoDB Ingestion, and CCPA Compliance to name a few.
ScalaDjangoPython3Apache SparkApache KafkaAmazon Web Services (AWS)+1

Software Engineering Intern

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked on reverse-engineering an Enterprise tool to save cost, and enhance the customer experience using Open-Source solutions.
WebSocketTogetherJSSocket.ioJavaScript

Google

Google Summer of Code - Student Member

May 2017Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Ruby Science Foundation

  • Developed and published daru-io gem: An IO connector integration that supports import/export of multiple sources/sinks with Daru DataFrames!
  • Link to project: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5380363785338880

Kharagpur winter of code 2016

Mentor

Dec 2016Jan 2017 · 1 mo · IIT Kharagpur

  • Kharagpur Winter of Code is a one-month long open-source contribution fest organised by Kharagpur Open Source Society. I actively mentored multiple student members for 7 different projects.

Pipecandy

Software Development & Data Analyst Internship

May 2016Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Greater Chennai Area

  • In the first phase of the internship, I worked with APIs of many social media platforms such as Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn & also implemented custom web-scraping on Inbound.og platform. Extraction of data from these social media platforms, as well as automating cycles of follow & unfollow to increase PipeCandy's social media circle was achieved. Also, there were some website updates in the backend (Ruby on rails) to include these automated tasks & respective admin panels.
  • In the second phase, I worked with the Chief Technology Officer, who helped me in applying some techniques of Natural Language Processing , Unsupervised Machine Learning to build predictive models of data and auto-classify the posts / tweets obtained from the 1st month. This auto-classification helped in segregating the client-friendly data from the other data. Further analysis of the client-friendly data intimates the client about their possible leads.

Metakgp

Software Developer

Jan 2016Jul 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · IIT Kharagpur

  • As a Software Developer at Metakgp, I contribute to various open-source projects of Metakgp. To name a few projects -
  • Naarad : A facebook news-feed aggregation tool, with posts specific to IIT Kharagpur.
  • MFQP : A previous year question paper aggregation tool for IIT Kharagpur.
  • GYFT : A tool that logs into student's ERP account and syncs the timetable to his/her Google calendar.

Team auv

Software Team Member

Jan 2016Jun 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · IIT Kharagpur

  • As a Software Team Member of Team AUV - IIT Kharagpur, I write code for our vehicle Kraken. The tasks span over fields like Control & Movement , Image Processing , Task Planner , Sensor Data Acquisition, GUI, etc. I am also in charge of updating the website every once in a while, to stay along with the trend.

Kantel technologies

Web Development Internship

Apr 2015Jun 2015 · 2 mos · Greater Chennai Area

  • As a Web Development Intern at Kantel Technologies, I worked with both front-end & back-end languages - HTML5, CSS3, MaterialiseCSS framework, JS, JQuery, AJAX, PHP & SQL. The aim of the Internship was to create the website from scratch, and implement various dynamic components like form submission, shopping cart & automated mailing of the response.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) & Master of Technology (MTech) — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2014Jan 2019

Chettinad Vidyashram

High School — Computer Science stream

Jan 2012Jan 2014

P.S.Senior Secondary School

Jan 2007Jan 2012

D.A.V Public School

Jan 2002Jan 2007

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