Abhishek Kumar
Summary
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SeniorAbhishek Kumar is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building backend systems, databases, and networking-focused solutions using Java, C++, Spring Boot, JavaScript and Linux. He has worked across top-tier tech and finance firms—most recently at Google after roles at Deutsche Bank and Amazon—and combines production-grade engineering with a strong grounding in system internals. Abhishek contributes to prominent open-source work on the git source tree, where he optimized commit-graph operations and refactored merge-related test logic, reflecting a knack for low-level performance improvements. Based in London and an NITK graduate, he is now building Kalppo while seeking challenging problems in backend and database engineering that bridge rigorous correctness with practical scalability.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
c1710
git10
c1110
data-structure9
performance-optimization9
shell9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
git/git
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 3 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Abhishek primarily contributed to the Git source code, focusing on refactoring and optimization efforts. Their work involved consolidating and improving test logic related to log graphs, specifically within the context of merge operations. They also updated include guards, dropped unused code related to commit counting, and implemented a generation data chunk to store corrected commit dates, enhancing the efficiency of commit-graph operations and preparing for future features.
hacklanggit-clientmercurialfollowlibgit2
abhishekkumar2718/git
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository and all pull requests are ignored. Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Contributions:1 PR, 115 pushes, 32 branches in 1 year 1 month
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