Summary
Adarsh Kumar is a seasoned platform and backend engineer with 12 years of experience, currently shaping infrastructure and product engineering at Rapido in Bengaluru. He specializes in building scalable, resilient platforms focused on developer experience, security, automation and cost optimization, and has progressed there from senior roles to Principal Product Engineer. His background spans retail and e-commerce systems, search, DevOps and cloud architecture from prior roles at Echidna, Cognizant and ThoughtWorks, plus hands-on work designing backend architectures for startups. Active in the Erlang/Elixir community and co-organizing local tech groups, he blends practical production engineering with community leadership. An understated strength is his consistent track record of moving from hands-on system design to platform leadership while keeping operational excellence and developer productivity front and center.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary, Higher Secondary at Bhavan's Vidya Mandir (Eroor, Kochi)
Bengaluru University
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Anna University Chennai
English, Malayalam