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KULDEEP KUMAR

Bangalore

Summary

Engineering leader with over 10+ years of experience in scaling high-volume distributed systems and managing end-to-end software development life cycles for critical platforms. Specializes in resilient architecture, platform modernization, and reliability engineering. Proven track record in fostering strong engineering cultures and enforcing technical standards, resulting in the delivery of scalable, high-availability systems.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Director of Engineering

Udaan
01.2020 - Current

Led engineering for core fintech and supply-chain platforms, ensuring architecture, SDLC, quality, cost, and reliability across multiple product lines handling millions of daily transactions.

  • Architected and delivered unified Accounts Receivable Platform enabling multi-mode payments, automated credit approvals, real-time credit limit enforcement, and reconciliation workflows.
  • Introduced structured SDLC practices, design reviews, fault modeling, and observability standards to enhance development processes.
  • Established scalable patterns for workflow orchestration, error recovery, and data consistency across financial systems.
  • Directed complete rebuild of Udaan's legacy payments stack into a scalable platform, reducing infrastructure costs by 70% through architectural simplification.
  • Increased transaction throughput and platform uptime with robust circuit breaking, retry policies, and horizontal scaling frameworks.
  • Designed in-house payment router with dynamic routing logic based on real-time gateway success and latency, improving success rate from 90% to 98%.
  • Architected high-scale microservices-based trade credit system achieving 99.999% availability and implemented real-time credit scoring pipelines for instant decisioning.

Member of Technical Staff

Oracle
01.2018 - 01.2020
  • Designed and developed Autonomous Health Services utilizing Machine Learning for Oracle Autonomous DB.
  • Created an integrated interface for real-time health monitoring, diagnosis, and root cause analysis.
  • Implemented secure log redaction to enhance data security and compliance.

Software Engineer

Sandvine
05.2017 - 06.2018
  • Developed deep learning models in TensorFlow for streaming and web traffic classification.
  • Implemented VPN traffic classification with Random Forests to enhance detection accuracy.
  • Created machine learning-driven device inference behind NAT using TCP fingerprinting.

Software Engineer

Unisys
06.2015 - 04.2017
  • Contributed to Port Flexibility feature, enabling virtualization for LANs.
  • Developed multiple features in Python and C++ to enhance server virtualization capabilities.

Education

B. Tech - Computer Engineering

NIT JALANDHAR
01.2015

Senior Secondary -

St Soldier Divine Public School

Skills

Architecture & Engineering Leadership

  • Architecture ownership, SDLC leadership, engineering execution, design reviews, RFC writing
  • Operational excellence: SLO/SLA/SLI, reliability, observability, incident readiness
  • Capacity planning, cost optimization, scalability engineering

Distributed Systems

  • Distributed systems design, microservices, event-driven platforms
  • Performance tuning, scalability patterns, reliability engineering

Languages

  • Kotlin, Java, C/C, JavaScript, TypeScript

Datastores

  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cosmos DB, Cassandra, DynamoDB

Cloud & DevOps

  • Azure, Git, CI/CD

Frameworks

  • Dropwizard, Guice, React, REST

Search

  • Solr

AI-Enhanced Engineering

  • AI-assisted development (code generation, refactoring, test generation, debugging), AI coding workflows

Websites, Portfolios and Profiles

linkedin.in/kuldeep

Languages

English
Advanced
C1
Hindi
Advanced
C1
Punjabi
Advanced
C1

Certification

  • Machine Learning
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization
  • NLP with Python for Machine Learning Essential Training
  • Building Deep Learning Applications with Keras 2.0

Hobbies and interests

  • Staying current via tech blogs
  • Strength training
  • Reading/Writing poetry

Timeline

Associate Director of Engineering

Udaan
01.2020 - Current

Member of Technical Staff

Oracle
01.2018 - 01.2020

Software Engineer

Sandvine
05.2017 - 06.2018

Software Engineer

Unisys
06.2015 - 04.2017

B. Tech - Computer Engineering

NIT JALANDHAR

Senior Secondary -

St Soldier Divine Public School
KULDEEP KUMAR