Ravi Ranjan Kumar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

16+ years in cloud-native and distributed systems.
Expert in agentic AI and multi-agent orchestration.
Proven leadership in engineering team management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Data Engineering expert with strong leadership in cloud-native architectures.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agentic AiCloud & Distributed SystemsBig DataDevops

Other Skills

PythonLangGraphLangChainRAGMCPKubernetesPostgresSparkHiveDebeziumIcebergJenkinsTerraformHelmGCP

About

• Principal Engineer with 16+ years of experience building cloud-native, large-scale, and highly distributed systems. Expert in agentic AI, multi-agent orchestration, RAG, MCP and workflow automation. • More than 3 years of team management experience. • Proven track record leading engineering teams, driving architecture for high-scale products, and building end-to-end systems across AI, data engineering, backend, and DevOps. • Strong background in big-data platforms, microservices, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. CORE SKILLS Agentic AI: LangChain, LangGraph, tool-calling agents, RAG pipelines, MCP, chatbot development Cloud & Distributed Systems: Kubernetes, microservices, Docker, GCP/AWS/Azure, Envoy, Keycloak DevOps: CI/CD, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, Ansible, observability (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK) Big Data: Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Trino, Iceberg, Debezium, Flink Backend: Python, FastAPI, event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub, SQS), REST, async services Storage: PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch Leadership: Team management, roadmap planning, cross-functional delivery Languages: Python, Java

Experience

15 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Ramen inc.

Principal Engineer

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Founding engineering member leading AI, Data Engineering, and DevOps initiatives.
Designed and built the Ramen Autonomous Network Operations platform using multi-agent workflows and tool-calling agents.
Developed a contextual network-debugging chatbot with RAG-based intelligence.
Established CI/CD, infra automation, and a fully managed Kubernetes deployment setup.
Built the Data Lake (GCP + Hive + Iceberg) and near real-time ingestion using Debezium.
Implemented unified authentication & authorization using Keycloak.
Delivered secure remote device login services, script execution platform, and credential rotation.
Tech: Python, LangGraph, LangChain, RAG, MCP, Kubernetes, Postgres, Spark, Hive, Debezium, Iceberg, Jenkins, Terraform, Helm

PythonLangGraphLangChainRAGMCPKubernetes+10

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Jun 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Led a team building core components of Windows Notification Service (WNS).
Built WNS management experience on Azure Portal, enabling scale from 300B → 1.5T notifications/month.
Implemented quota & usage enforcement for abuse prevention and monetization.
Made WNS compliant for sovereign cloud (air-gapped) environments.
Tech: C#, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Function Apps, Redis, Azure DevOps, ARM, Key Vault

C#Azure SQLCosmos DBFunction AppsRedisAzure DevOps+4

Sophos

2 roles

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

Managed a 10-member team building data platform services.
Built real-time aggregation engine to compute threat indicators instantly for dashboards.
Enhanced Storage Accounting Manager for XDR usage tracking and billing.
Built rate/usage limit system to proactively detect abnormal device/system behavior.
Built an org-wide streaming platform on Kafka + AWS.
Developed Storage Accounting Manager, enabling data monetization.
Delivered XDR telemetry aggregation & anomaly detection services.
Built large-scale Data Lake for BI, ML, and analytics workloads.
Tech: Java, Spring, Python, Postgres, AWS, S3, SQS, Kafka, Spark, Hive, Athena, Redshift, Terraform

JavaSpringPythonPostgresAWSS3+9

Principal Software Development Engineer

Sep 2018 – Jul 2019 · 10 mos

Built Data lake to store internal as well as external data. The data lake can be used for different purposes like BI, Data Science and Machine learning.
Built highly scalable data pipeline to ingest multiple TBs of data per day in data lake.
Built telemetry pipeline to track service level statistics like usages by different devices and customers and track any abnormal behavior in the service and block any alarming activity.
Architecture Principles: REST Service, Microservice, Distributed Systems, Cloud Native application, Big Data, Data Engineering
Technologies Used: JAVA, Spring Framework, Python, Postgres SQL, AWS, S3, SQS, ECS, EC2, Kafka, Spark, Hive, Athena, Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Grafana, ELK, EMR, Jenkins, Terraform

JAVASpring FrameworkPythonPostgres SQLAWSS3+15

Tivo

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr

Worked as lead in Metadata engineering group.
Built data pipeline in hadoop to generate resources for movies, tv series, sports etc
Built Rest services to serve entertainment and Sports resources to customers
Architecture Principles: REST Service, Microservice, Distributed Systems, Cloud Native application, Big Data, Data Engineering
Technologies Used: JAVA, Spring Framework, Python, Mongo Db, SQL Server, MySQL, HDFS, Map-Reduce, Sqoop, Hive, nginx, ELK, EC2, Kafka, Spark, Redshift, Grafana, EMR, Jenkins, Terraform, Memcached

JAVASpring FrameworkPythonMongo DbSQL ServerMySQL+15