Kishan Kumar C
Bengaluru
Summary
Senior Principal Architect & Technical Lead experienced in designing and scaling high-throughput distributed systems. Led development of autonomous platform provisioning and anomaly detection systems, contributing to advanced Agentic AI initiatives. Delivered successful legacy-to-cloud migrations and architected mission-critical platforms, emphasizing resilient infrastructure and system automation.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principal Developer - Team Managed Service & AICOE
Novamesh - Tata communication subsidary
Bengaluru
02.2023 - Current
- Spearheaded architecture and engineering of Vayu Maya, a proprietary Agentic AI platform that automated Kubernetes platform service provisioning, enhancing deployment speed and reliability.
- Leveraged k8sgpt and a proprietary MCP (Model Context Protocol) server to build intelligent AI Agents for Kubernetes anomaly detection, resulting in a 15% improvement in Service Assurance efficiency..
- Designed and scaled an Agentic AI platform with advanced RAG capabilities within the Vayu Cloud ecosystem, optimizing knowledge retrieval accuracy and streamlining user workflows..
- Orchestrated the migration of a legacy provisioning system to a modern, high-availability architecture, integrating automated feedback loops, failsafe mechanisms, and instant-rollback strategies to ensure 100% deployment reliability.
- Key Achievement: Cloud Solution of the year award for enabling Virtual control plane.
Senior Software Engineer 3 - Team OTT
Tanla Platforms Limited
Bengaluru
04.2021 - 02.2023
- Architected and spearheaded the development of R (Rich Communication Messaging Platform), a high-throughput distributed system designed to handle massive-scale messaging traffic for Business OTT like Whatsapp, Telegram and Google RCS.
- Orchestrated a large-scale migration of legacy workloads to a modern, cloud-native architecture using AWS and CNCF Kubernetes, earning the September 2021 Spot Award for successful execution.
- Engineered a comprehensive observability framework, designing critical service monitoring metrics and automated alerting systems to ensure 24/7 reliability for distributed Big Data pipelines.
- Directed cross-functional engineering teams to deliver resilient, low-latency messaging services, specializing in high-concurrency architectures and distributed system optimization.
Senior Software Engineer 2 - Team VIKI
Hashedin by Deloitte
Bengaluru
09.2020 - 04.2021
- Architected and led the end-to-end development of VIKI, a high-performance loan-vending platform, managing a cross-functional team of highly driven engineering team.
- Engineered a high-concurrency Microservices architecture leveraging a Reactive Stack, ensuring non-blocking, asynchronous processing for low-latency financial transactions.
- Designed and modeled distributed database schemas to support massive horizontal scaling and data consistency across disparate lending services.
- Spearheaded the adoption of Reactive programming paradigms, reducing resource overhead and improving system throughput by 25% compared to traditional thread-per-request models.
Senior Software Engineer - Team EMAP
Karix Mobile pvt ltd
Bengaluru
08.2017 - 08.2020
- Engineered core components of a high-volume Bulk Email Service, optimizing delivery throughput and ensuring high availability for enterprise-scale messaging.
- Architected solutions to decouple legacy, platform-dependent systems, implementing modern design patterns to improve code modularity and system extensibility.
- Diagnosed and resolved complex architectural bottlenecks in tightly coupled frameworks, transitioning legacy codebases toward more maintainable, service-oriented architectures.
- Collaborated on the development of scalable communication APIs, focusing on interoperability across diverse client platforms and cloud environments.
Trainee Software Engineer - Westlaw Asia
Thomson Reuters Pvt ltd
Bengaluru
07.2015 - 03.2017
- Architected high-throughput data processing pipelines to ingest and transform massive volumes of raw structured XML content (Legal Cases, Journals, and Libraries) into searchable assets.
- Engineered an indexing engine backed by Apache Lucene, optimizing search relevancy and retrieval performance for complex legal queries.
- Developed automated ETL workflows for large-scale document parsing and normalization, ensuring data integrity and high availability across the search ecosystem.
- Optimized ingestion latency for real-time document updates, significantly reducing the time-to-availability for critical legal literature.
Education
Bachelor's Degree -
RV College of Engineering
01.2015
Skills
AI & Agentic Orchestration
- Frameworks: Agentic AI (ADK, LangChain) Claude Code, OpenFang
- LLM Ops: Model Context Protocol (MCP), OpenRouter, Vector Embeddings
- Vector Databases: ChromaDB, Milvus/Minio (High-precision retrieval), Pgvector
- Search Engineering: RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Elastic
Distributed Systems & Architecture
- Languages: Java (Expert), Go, Python, TypeScript
- Backend: Spring Ecosystem (Boot, WebFlux/Reactive, Cache, JDBC), FastAPI
- Messaging & Streaming: Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Flink, Apache Camel
- Microservices: Reactive Stack, High-Throughput Distributed Systems, REST/gRPC
Cloud & Infrastructure (CNCF)
- Orchestration: Kubernetes (VKS, EKS, k8sgpt), Docker, Terraform (IaC)
- AWS Stack: API Gateway, EKS, RDS, ElastiCache (Redis)
- Multi-Cloud: Vayu Cloud (Primary), AWS, GCP, Azure
- CI/CD: Vayu DevOps, Jenkins, GitOps
Data Engineering & Storage
- Relational: MySQL, PostgreSQL (Distributed modeling)
- NoSQL & Analytics: ClickHouse (OLAP), MongoDB, Redis, Apache Trino
- Big Data: Hadoop, High-throughput XML/Structured Data Pipelines
- Technical leadership
- Team collaboration
Websites
Certification
AWS Technical Professional, AWS, 09/01/20
Awards
- Cloud solution of the year, Tata communications, 07/01/25
- Sport Award, Tanla Platforms, 09/01/21
Personal Information
Title: Principal Developer
Timeline
Principal Developer - Team Managed Service & AICOE
Novamesh - Tata communication subsidary
02.2023 - Current
Senior Software Engineer 3 - Team OTT
Tanla Platforms Limited
04.2021 - 02.2023
Senior Software Engineer 2 - Team VIKI
Hashedin by Deloitte
09.2020 - 04.2021
Senior Software Engineer - Team EMAP
Karix Mobile pvt ltd
08.2017 - 08.2020
Trainee Software Engineer - Westlaw Asia
Thomson Reuters Pvt ltd
07.2015 - 03.2017
Bachelor's Degree -
RV College of Engineering