Summary
Abhishek Kumar is a software engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Corporate Vice President and Software Development Manager at New York Life’s Digital R&D Lab, where he leads cross-functional teams to build cloud-native digital products. He combines hands-on architecture and coding expertise—Spring Boot, Java, React, AWS, Terraform—with proven delivery of fully automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code to accelerate project onboarding. His background spans frontier initiatives including blockchain (Ethereum/Solidity), AR/VR exploration, and mobile and web product development, reflecting a strong appetite for emerging tech. Prior roles at NYL and Infosys honed his skills in data engineering, Teradata, and large-scale system reliability, and he pairs that with an MS in Computer Science from Northeastern. Known for moving between strategic requirements and PR-level code reviews, he balances technical stewardship with product-driven execution. An interesting thread: he progressed from building survey analytics and startup prototypes to shaping enterprise cloud architecture, showing both startup grit and enterprise rigor.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.9 out of 10, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.9 out of 10 at Jaypee University of Information Technology
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.75 out of 4, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.75 out of 4 at Northeastern University
English, Hindi