Aakash Kumar
Software Engineer at Adobe
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAakash Kumar is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native, high-performance solutions for Adobe’s Commerce SaaS platform. He specializes in backend engineering for digital commerce—optimizing quoting, inventory, and asynchronous order processing at scale—and has contributed to Magento’s core projects, including magento2 and the widely used Magento Inventory (MSI). Comfortable across Spring-based stacks, message queuing (RabbitMQ/AMQP), and database work, he has a track record of improving throughput and reliability in enterprise systems. His background includes modernizing legacy web apps and developing production-grade microservices, and he pairs that with academic experience building data-driven web tools during his MS at Arizona State. Based in Austin, he brings both practical systems-level fixes (like disabling costly inventory checks to speed quote loads) and broader architectural improvements to large commerce deployments.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Information Technology, Master of Science Information Technology at Arizona State UniversityBachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Manipal Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
Github Skills (13)
rabbitmq10
databases10
php10
appinventor10
catalog10
product-catalog10
magento10
database10
cqrs9
software-design9
phpunit8
testing8
ecommerce8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
magento/magento2
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:290 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Aakash contributed to the codebase by implementing functionality to disable inventory checks on quote load, involving changes to the Quote and Quote\Item\Collection files. Their work focuses on optimizing the quoting process by modifying inventory checks. The user also merged various remote-tracking branches for code integration.
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magento/inventory
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Magento Inventory Project (a.k.a MSI)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Aakash primarily contributed to the implementation of asynchronous order processing and inventory management features within the Magento Inventory project. Their work involved integrating RabbitMQ for message queuing, specifically for handling consumers and enhancing order reservation processes. They also made adjustments to existing tests, ensuring the system's functionality and reliability. The user demonstrates proficiency in adapting the codebase to utilize AMQP for asynchronous tasks and improving test coverage.
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