About

Rakesh Kumar is a seasoned Software Engineer with over 11 years of experience in building large-scale, reliable, and low latency systems. He is currently working at Google as a Software Engineer, where he is responsible for building a platform that offers a suite of services to manage the full lifecycle of databases in GCP, other public, and private clouds. Rakesh is passionate about building technology that solves real-world problems and makes a difference. During his career, he has worked on diverse sets of engineering problems in companies like Flipkart, Swiggy, and Directi. He has primarily worked on designing and building robust distributed systems, data analytics infrastructure, and performant data model and APIs. Rakesh has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has a strong technical background and is proficient in a wide range of technologies such as SQL, GCP, Android, Hadoop, Kafka, Big Data, Elastic Search, Apache Storm, and HDFS. In his previous roles, Rakesh has led teams of engineers and worked on various projects. For instance, at Swiggy, he was the Tech Lead Manager for the Data Analytics team and built the Data Platform from scratch, which led to a revenue increase of up to 15%. At Flipkart, he designed and implemented a generic engine for writing batch processing pipelines on top of Hadoop and built a Framework for Real-time processing on top of Apache Storm. Rakesh is a technical leader who believes in operational excellence and always strives to improve the processes and metrics of his team. He has defined processes and metrics to improve the Operational Excellence of the Policy and Config Management System team at G-Suite, which helped reduce time to triage and time to resolve customer issues. In summary, Rakesh Kumar is a highly skilled Software Engineer with a passion for building technology that solves real-world problems. He has a strong technical background, excellent leadership skills, and a proven track record of delivering successful projects.