Adarsh K Kumar

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable infrastructure solutions.
Strong background in distributed systems and production engineering.
Proven track record in mentoring and technical leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in scalable systems and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsDistributed SystemsProduction EngineeringTechnical Leadership

Other Skills

IstioApache KafkaAnsibleGo (Programming Language)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)High Availability (HA)KubernetesLinuxMentoringMicroservicesMongoDBNoSQLRDBMSReliabilityScalable Architecture

About

At Rapido, our focus is on elevating the infrastructure platform for India's premier mobility provider. My role as Principal Product Engineer centers around enhancing developer experience, tightening security measures, automation and cost optimization. These initiatives are essential in maintaining a scalable and resilient Infrastructure for our growing user base. With a strong foundation in production engineering and mentoring, my contributions have been pivotal in operating distributed databases like Cassandra and MongoDB at scale. The skills acquired from mentoring and crafting design documents are instrumental in fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation within our engineering teams.

Experience

14 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

6 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Cncg kochi

Co Organizer

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Kochi, Kerala, India

Rapido

4 roles

Principal Product Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

IstioApache KafkaAnsibleDevOpsDistributed SystemsGo (Programming Language)+16

Lead Product Engineer II

Promoted

Jun 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

Building a scalable and resilient infrastructure platform at India's largest bike taxi, with focus on devX, security, automation and cost optimisation.

Distributed SystemsReliabilityProblem SolvingDebuggingCode ReviewGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)+19

Lead Product Engineer I

Apr 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Distributed SystemsReliabilityProblem SolvingDebuggingCode ReviewMentoring+13

Senior Product Engineer II

Jan 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Distributed SystemsReliabilityProblem SolvingDebuggingCode ReviewMentoring+13

Erlang elixir user group bangalore

Co-Organizer

Dec 2019 – Jul 2020 · 7 mos · India

Coordinating meetups on Erlang and Elixir.

Distributed SystemsReliabilityProblem SolvingDebuggingCode ReviewMentoring+13

Thoughtworks

Senior Consultant

Sep 2016 – Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Distributed SystemsMentoringTechnical LeadershipUnix

Sapient

Senior Associate Technology L1

Mar 2016 – Sep 2016 · 6 mos · Bangalore

Worked on integrating various OTS systems, using a custom framework built using Java.

Distributed SystemsReliabilityDebuggingCode ReviewMentoringProduction Engineering+9

Independent

Independent Consultant

Oct 2015 – Mar 2016 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked as an Independent consultant with a startup in Bangalore.
Designing and implementing the backend architecture and setting up of the cloud infrastructure.

Distributed SystemsDebuggingCode ReviewContainerizationDesign DocumentsUnix+1

Echidna, inc.

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2014 – Sep 2015 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Member of Core Backend Team for a Retail Product.
Actively involved in Data modeling for both NOSQL/SQL based DB.
Developed an E-commerce Search system using Apache Solr/Spring/solrJ.
Design and developed REST API ( JAX-RS ) .Implemented security for REST API using Spring Security / oAuth2.
MongoDB setup and administration.
AWS setup and maintenance.
CI - setup with Jenkins.

Distributed SystemsDebuggingCode ReviewProduction EngineeringTechnical LeadershipDesign Documents+2

Software Developer

Sep 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

Involved in various stages of development right from Inception of the product.
Member of the Core team working on a Retail Solution extending Broadleaf commerce.
Developed various Proof Of Concept in Android and Phonegap.
Evaluation of technologies/frameworks.
DevOps

DebuggingCode ReviewProduction EngineeringTechnical LeadershipDesign DocumentsUnix+1