Sandeep Kumar
About
Engineering leader with an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset focused on solving customer problems, with 13 years of experience in Software Engineering and Product Development, including 6 years in a people management role.
I was born and raised in Nainital, where I completed most of my schooling at St. Joseph's College. After completing my higher secondary education, I earned a B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Kumaon Engineering College, Dwarahat. I further pursued an MS (by Research) in Artificial Intelligence from IIT Madras.
Interests and Skills
Engineering Management and Leadership, Software Design and Architecture, Distributed Systems, Site-Reliability Engineering, Data Structures and Algorithms, Mobile/Web Applications, and Artificial Intelligence.Python, Golang, MySQL, AWS, Django, Java, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Ansible, Elastic Search, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes.
Professional Experience
- Senior Manager of Engineering - Rokt, Sydney (Feb 2024 - Present) Digital Marketing
- Principal Software Engineer - Motional , Singapore. (July 2023 - Feb 2024) Remote Vehicle Assistance
- Engineering Manager - Meta (Facebook), Singapore. (Sep 2022 - July 2023) Supply Chain Software Soultion
- Software Engineering Manager II - Grab , Singapore. (Jan 2017 - Sep 2022) Ride-hailing and card payment gateway systems.
- Principal Software Engineer - Verloop (Magiclane App Services Pvt. Ltd), Bangalore, India. Founding Team (August 2015 - Jan 2017) AI-powered chat software
- Senior Software Engineer - Paytm (One97 Communications Ltd), Bangalore, India. Backend Development Team (Feb 2014 - August 2015) Digital payment wallet
- Software Engineer -> Senior Software Engineer - Gupshup Technology India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India. Backend Development Team (July 2011 - Feb 2014) Social Network.
Patent
- A high-performance payment acquiring router. Yunpeng Niu, Sandeep Kumar and Dawn Lee. Filed Jun 24, 2021, Singapore, 10202106922S.
Blog Posts
- Michael Cartmell, Jiahao Huang, Sandeep Kumar (5 May 2019)
Preventing Pipeline Calls from Crashing Redis Clusters
Publications
- Sandeep Kumar, Sergio Jimenez Celorrio, Frederic Py, Deepak Khemani and Kanna Rajan. (2011) Optimizing Hidden Markov Models for Ocean Feature Detection. In the proceedings of FLAIRS-24. May 18-20, 2011. Palm Beach, Florida, USA. [pdf] [cite]
- Sandeep Kumar and Deepak Khemani. (2010) Heuristic Search Replanning with Regressed Goal Descriptions. In the proceedings of PlanSIG2010. December 1-3, 2010. Brescia, Italy. [pdf] [cite]