Abhishek Kumar

Associate Partner

Gurgaon, Haryana, India14 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 14+ years of leadership in technology.
  • Expert in designing large-scale distributed applications.
  • Proven track record in driving business outcomes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused leader in Telecom and Digital Services with extensive experience in scalable architectures.

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Skills

Core Skills

System ArchitectureMicroservicesTeam LeadershipAgile DevelopmentApi DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentData Engineering

Other Skills

AerospikeAgile MethodologiesApache KafkaAspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)Caching PlatformConcurrent ProgrammingCore JavaCritical ThinkingCross-team CollaborationData ProcessingData StructuresDatabase ManagementDesign PatternsDistributed CachingDistributed Systems

About

With over 14+ years of impactful leadership in technology, I specialize in designing and delivering large-scale distributed applications. I have a proven track record of driving business outcomes through strategic product ownership and cultivating a culture of innovation and diversity. Snapshot: Leadership & Impact: - Lead high-impact teams with a focus on ownership, creativity, and engineering excellence. - Set and achieve ambitious goals, promote continuous feedback, and mentor future leaders. - Resolve challenges and execute projects using Agile methodologies. Technical Expertise: - Design robust systems with a clean, hexagonal architecture to minimize complexity. - Implement scalable, event-driven, and microservices architectures for business agility. - Proficient in integrating technologies like Spring/Boot, NoSQL, distributed caching, and messaging systems. Domain Mastery: - Extensive experience in Telecom/Internet Publishing, specializing in News/Feed aggregation and classification. Core Strengths: - Strategic thinker known for engineering excellence and delivering impactful solutions. - Establish efficient frameworks and structures for organizational efficiency. - Advocate Agile practices to foster innovation and continuous improvement.

Experience

14 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Freight tiger

2 roles

Associate Director

Promoted

Jun 2024Present · 2 yrs

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2022May 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

Airtel digital

4 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jun 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Airtel IQ is a CPaaS system that operates in the Indian market. I lead the Voice Core team to make the platform resilient and scalable. Scaled the system to 20x with high resilience and stability on the same infrastructure by rearchitecting the entire solution(using event-driven architecture with call stickiness) and shifting the performance left. Ensuring HA and 24*7 uptime by system design, engineering excellence, and cross-team collaboration. Introduced engineering best practices, tools and processes to ensure operational stability and observability of the system for real-time calls on a huge scale.
Event Driven ArchitectureSystem DesignCross-team CollaborationEngineering Best PracticesSystem ArchitectureMicroservices

Senior Lead Engineer

Jun 2019May 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Incubated and lead Airtel Teams platform, which is used for vendor onboarding in digital businesses. Lead the team to onboard AdTech and LCO businesses in the first year of operation. Built system which is modular and customisable, at the same time integrated with core ERP, billing and payment systems. Grew the team from 4 engineers to 10 engineers through hiring, training opportunities, team building and skill development. Interfaced with product, agile, and customer care teams to ship new products and new partners.
Modular System DesignVendor OnboardingTeam BuildingAgile MethodologiesTeam LeadershipAgile Development

Lead Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2017May 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Worked in Airtel OnlineStore platform(an incubation project) which was used for selling bundled devices(smartphones and dongles) with a postpaid plan. Lead the Backend team to build modules like catalogue, cart, order, payment, and order fulfilment. Done bunch of integrations with warehouse and delivery partners. Rearchitected the existing system to bring modularity and scale. Helped in hiring. Interfaced with product and agile teams to ship new products. System migration from a third-party core commerce engine to an in-house system helped in saving licence costs in crores. Successfully ran exclusive Iphone sales as well on this platform.
Backend DevelopmentSystem MigrationIntegrationTeam CollaborationSystem ArchitectureAPI Development

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Built a caching platform, audit framework, microservices architecture, and was a key contributor to the success of airtel.in/s/selfcare digitisation for postpaid. Worked as part of the backend team to deliver self-care digitisation. Worked on end-to-end system building, from api development to deployment and production stabilisation. The caching framework acts as a backbone to serve digital traffic on self-care websites and app platforms.
Caching PlatformMicroservices ArchitectureAPI DevelopmentSystem ArchitectureMicroservices

Firstrain

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2014Sep 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Firstrain product is a data-driven product which is used in the B2B space for targeted market insight for driving sales. The system primarily crawls the web using crawlers, massages and group documents, tags entities and serves a personalised view to the customer. As part of the systems team, I contributed to crawling, data through feeds, processes, and storing in a database for grouping and tagging. I worked on the grouping and tagging parts as well before making the data available for consumption by business API teams.
Data ProcessingWeb CrawlingDatabase ManagementBackend DevelopmentData Engineering

Software Engineer

Oct 2013Mar 2014 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Firstrain product is a data-driven product which is used in the B2B space for targeted market insight for driving sales. The system primarily crawls the web using crawlers, massages and group documents, tag entities and serve personalised view to the customer. As part of the system team, built a modular service using suitable design patterns to make the data available through feeds having support for ftp and http integration. Ensured by design that any new feed partner integration can be enabled in 2-3 days.
Modular Service DevelopmentIntegration SupportBackend DevelopmentAPI Development

Aricent group

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jul 2011Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Worked on the order provisioning and activation system (VNM) in the BE development team(client: Verizon). It's a web-service/API-based product that receives orders from other systems. This is used primarily for wireline business in the USA and EMEA to handle provisioning on STB's. Delivered new features, owned LLD, and unit tested features. Also, conducted feature presentations or demos to stakeholders. Handled complex production issues like memory leaks and request table locks in the database.
Order ProvisioningAPI DevelopmentFeature DeliveryBackend Development

Software Engineer - Trainee

Jan 2011Jun 2011 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

Education

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

MCA — Computer Applications

Jan 2008Jan 2011

Deendayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University

B.Sc.

Jan 2004Jan 2007

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