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Sumit Kumar

Pune

Summary

Experienced professional with 18 years of expertise in project requirement discovery, planning, design, and development. Proficient in distributed microservice-based systems, File system technologies, Data protection software and the other part of storage/networking stack. Skilled in leading teams towards successful delivery from concept to prototype.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Principal Software Engineer/Architect

GupShup India Pvt Ltd
Pune
10.2022 - 04.2024
  • Worked with multiple teams (Voice and Chat services) to tackle scale, high availability, and performance issues while serving as an Architect.

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Talend India
Pune
08.2021 - 09.2022
  • Designed and developed services that are related to data governance.
  • Facilitated cross-team discussions to address design choices.

Technical Director

PrimaryIO
Pune
04.2013 - 08.2021
  • Design and development of Hybrid Cloud Data Management solution. Product allows customer to decouple compute from data - compute can migrate to cloud, while keeping the data in the datacenter (Try-Before-Commit to Cloud). The product also supports permanent migration to cloud (warm and cold migration variants).
  • Designed and implemented SSD based application performance caching solution for VMWare ESX Hypervisor and Linux servers.

Senior Software Engineer

Symantec India Pvt Ltd
Pune
07.2007 - 03.2013
  • Lead a team responsible for asynchronous file change log-based replication.
  • Collaborated on multiple fronts for the design and development of Symantec NAS appliance and Write once read many (WORM) filesystem.
  • Managed escalation management and conducted training for support team on behalf of OEM partners
  • Collaborated with pre-sales team to design customised solutions for customers.

Associate Software Engineer

Calsoft India Pvt Ltd
Pune
07.2006 - 06.2007
  • Enhanced flash device driver functionality while improving usability of user level tools for seamless device management.

Intern

Codito India Pvt Ltd
Pune
06.2005 - 06.2006
  • Developed a specialized system during my college project for improving code optimization at runtime.

Education

Advance Diploma in Business Management - International Business

ICFAI
Tripura
01-2010

B.Tech - Computer Science

MIT
Alandi, Pune
06-2006

Skills

Language: C, C, Phyton, Java

Database Engines: MongoDB, Postgres, AeroSpike, Redis

Messaging Products: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS

Software/Products: Data protection softwares(Backup/Replication), Vmware ecosystem, Network protocols (NFS/CIFS/ISCSI)

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Vmware Cloud Foundation, IBM Cloud

Certification

Information technology Project Management, IIT Bombay.

Accomplishments

  • 7 US patents
  • Rookie of the Year, SpotLight and innovator awards at Symantec, India. Nominated twice for Symantec's Top talent program
  • Presented in Big Data Conference at the Fifth Elephant 2014, Bangalore. Link: https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/2014/sub/supercharge-application-i-o-performance-with-ssd-c-62pWK328iNd9NAxtAaVANe
  • Winner of multiple national level paper presentations and eng projects at RedHat, IIT Bombay, Concepts PICT, Pune
  • Visited multiple customer sites across the US, Europe and the Middle East for deployment and product showcases

Timeline

Senior Principal Software Engineer/Architect

GupShup India Pvt Ltd
10.2022 - 04.2024

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Talend India
08.2021 - 09.2022

Technical Director

PrimaryIO
04.2013 - 08.2021

Senior Software Engineer

Symantec India Pvt Ltd
07.2007 - 03.2013

Associate Software Engineer

Calsoft India Pvt Ltd
07.2006 - 06.2007

Intern

Codito India Pvt Ltd
06.2005 - 06.2006

Advance Diploma in Business Management - International Business

ICFAI

B.Tech - Computer Science

MIT
Sumit Kumar