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Ashish Kumar

Bangalore

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

SDE 2 (Search Infra Team)

Flipkart
Bangalore
04.2021 - Current
  • Led scaled tech solutioning for Two-Wheeler category, reducing non-serviceability in search by 50%, enabling expansion to 300 zones, with plans to grow the business 10x in 3 months through continued dealer onboarding and infra scaling.
  • Developed and scaled search system for Flipkart Minutes (quick commerce) experience, currently expanding to 300+ dark stores across multiple cities with a P99 latency of 180ms
  • Led the development of the Flipkart Immerse search system, a similarity-based search on product feature embeddings, driving a GMV impact of ~₹453 Cr through improved relevance and user engagement.
  • Architected the Minutes Pharma and Tobacco tracks on Flipkart, expanding product categories while ensuring compliance with regulatory constraints and maintaining P99 latency within bounds for a seamless user experience.
  • Launched Semantic Matching (SM) on Flipkart Minutes, reducing null searches by 77% (13% → 8.1%) and increasing Hyperlocal GMV and Units by 2.7%, significantly improving product discoverability and user satisfaction.
  • Led the development and successful launch of Top Filters on Flipkart, enhancing search refinement and boosting conversion rates through strong cross-team collaboration; assumed full ownership post-launch as the primary point of contact for all Top Filters use cases.
  • Scaling infrastructure from 2x to 6x load seamlessly by proactively monitoring metrics and ensuring zero degradation under peak traffic.

Software Developer

Cubical Laboratories
Delhi
08.2019 - 03.2021
  • Designed and developed asynchronous microservices in C++ for CubeOS, a smart home OS for IoT edge devices. Incorporated OOPS best practices in a reactive programming model; used ZeroMQ for IPC and sqlite for data storage.
  • Designed CLI tool(Client-Server model) with socket programming using ZeroMQ messaging library.

Software Developer Intern

Bank of New York Mellon Technology (BNYM)
Pune
05.2018 - 07.2018
  • Contributed to BNY Mellon's NEXEN Corporate Actions platform, enhancing financial services access via web apps, APIs, and analytics for asset custody and broker-dealer services.
  • Leveraged MongoDB optimizations to significantly reduce response time and improve platform performance.

Education

BTECH - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

IIIT HYDERABAD
Hyderabad, INDIA
01.2019

Technical Skills

Languages: Java, C++, Python

Database: MySQL, Redis, HBase, Couchbase

Tools/Framework: Spring, Hibernate, Dropwizard, Guice

Others: Distributed Systems, Solr, Kafka, Storm, MapReduce, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana

Timeline

SDE 2 (Search Infra Team)

Flipkart
04.2021 - Current

Software Developer

Cubical Laboratories
08.2019 - 03.2021

Software Developer Intern

Bank of New York Mellon Technology (BNYM)
05.2018 - 07.2018

BTECH - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

IIIT HYDERABAD

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