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Jayant Kumar

Hyderabad

Summary

Dynamic engineering leader with over 11 years of experience in architecting and building cloud-native data platforms, products, and warehouses that drive analytics, machine learning, and critical business decisions. Expertise in modern data architectures and distributed systems, complemented by a proven track record of leading high-impact cross-functional initiatives. Brings a pragmatic, product-focused mindset and a passion for empowering businesses and users through scalable, self-serve data platforms.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Software Engineer

QuillBot Inc
01.2023 - Current
  • Architected and built a PB-scale behavioral analytics platform and enterprise data warehouse that processes 27B+ events daily empowering business, product, and research teams.
  • Built real-time personalization platform, including history feed services and online/offline feature stores, powering text classification, tailored recommendations, auto-hides, and context management through model training and inference.
  • Built a next-generation self-serve fraud and anomaly detection platform processing ~10TB of data daily. The platform powers dynamic rate-limiting, throttling, and real-time anomaly detection, significantly improving security, service reliability, and user experience.
  • Architected and led development of a self-serve experimentation platform supporting product experiments, A/B testing, segmented rollouts, MECE-based audience design, and pollution assessment — enabling faster product iteration and data-driven decision making.
  • Spearheaded data compliance and governance initiatives with a privacy, discovery and quality first mindset, playing a pivotal role in achieving SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR compliance.

Staff Data Engineer

Zoom Video Communications
01.2021 - 01.2023
  • Architected Zoom's unified, infra-agnostic ETL/ELT platform powering 90% of batch and streaming workloads, enabling self-serve analytics across business functions.
  • Managed and scaled a PB-scale data lakehouse and enterprise data warehouse, delivering trusted metrics, curated data marts, and accelerating stakeholder decision-making.
  • Modernized Zoom's behavioral data platform, saving $600K+ annually while improving event-level data quality and standardizing governance, lineage, and compliance frameworks across the organization.
  • Led CI/CD implementation for data engineering pipelines, standardizing deployment practices across Big Data and DevOps teams.

Lead Software Engineer

Experian Inc
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Led development of CloudOrbit, a multi-cloud self-serve data submission, processing and management platform and APIs with AWS and GCP.

Senior Software Engineer

Invesco Pvt. Ltd.
01.2017 - 01.2019
  • Engineered scalable payment, investment and advisory systems and led the cross-functional microservice migration.

Software Engineer

Mindtree Ltd.
01.2014 - 01.2017
  • Scaled enterprise log and telemetry platform upto 10k QPS using Java, Akka, and Kafka.
  • Contributed to the adoption of Java1.8 and migration to REST from XML/WSDL.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

GITA
Bhubaneshwar, Odisha
05-2014

Skills

  • Data Processing: Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect
  • Languages: Go, Scala, Python, Java
  • Orchestration: Airflow, DBT, Airbyte, Apache NiFi
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
  • Data Warehouses: Apache Iceberg, Snowflake, BigQuery, Trino
  • Data Catalogs: Apache Polaris, Apache Hive, AWS Glue, BigLake
  • Databases: Postgres, Google Bigtable, OpenSearch
  • Telemetry: Fluent-bit, FluentD, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana

Interests

  • Cricket
  • Singing

Timeline

Principal Software Engineer

QuillBot Inc
01.2023 - Current

Staff Data Engineer

Zoom Video Communications
01.2021 - 01.2023

Lead Software Engineer

Experian Inc
01.2019 - 01.2021

Senior Software Engineer

Invesco Pvt. Ltd.
01.2017 - 01.2019

Software Engineer

Mindtree Ltd.
01.2014 - 01.2017

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

GITA

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