Summary
Mihir Kumar is an Associate Vice President and data engineering lead at The Japan Research Institute (Singapore), specializing in migrating on-premises systems to Azure and designing scalable cloud-native data infrastructures. He leads a team of six engineers, shaping end-to-end data pipelines using Azure Data Lake, Synapse Analytics, and Data Factory, with PySpark and Databricks to ensure secure, high-performance platforms. With a strong background in web applications, SOA, XML technologies, and NoSQL databases, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic cloud transformation to improve reliability and reduce costs. Previously, as a Technical Architect at NTT DATA Asia Pacific, he steered platform migration projects and onboarded diverse datamarts and data platforms onto a unified framework. Based in Singapore with about a decade of experience, he thrives in agile environments and is a problem-solver who quickly translates complex systems into practical, scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer