Vicky Kumar
Lead Software Engineer at Pocket FM
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVicky Kumar is a results-driven Lead Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 9 years of experience building scalable backend systems for consumer platforms. She currently leads the Pocket FM backend, guiding a 10+ engineer team and delivering measurable impact, including $6K monthly in infrastructure savings, and a show marketing framework that drives incremental revenue. Her work spans migrating search infrastructure from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch, building content and localization features that boosted user retention and expanded to Mexico and Europe, contributing to roughly $10M in monthly revenue growth. She has led backend redesigns and UGC initiatives, shipped 75+ experiments focused on engagement, monetization, and scalability, and built an offline allocation framework enabling faster experiments for 100M+ users. Earlier roles at Wipro and Propel Technology Group strengthened her automation, data pipelines, and REST API performance, while she built a strong full-stack foundation (JavaScript, Python, React, Laravel) and emphasizes responsive design and MVC organization. Vicky holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from Bhagalpur College of Engineering and has studied DSA and System Design at Scaler, reflecting a continuous, hands-on approach to learning and applying machine learning and data visualization concepts.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
DSA and System Design, DSA and System Design at ScalerHIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at dav public schoolBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Bhagalpur College of Engineering
English, Hindi
Github Skills (4)
issue-tracking8
slt8
anaconda5
asr2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
donrockvic/DeepLearning_projects
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
donrockvic/MachineLearning
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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