Aditya Kumar is a software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable real-time systems and backend services, currently at Google working on Google Play. He previously led core media and scalability efforts at 100ms, designing a Mesh SFU serving tens of thousands of subscribers, a Go video SDK, and a bespoke load-testing framework that cut costs 50x. His background includes implementing transport layers and resiliency features for WebRTC, improving call success and reducing bandwidth by up to 75% via simulcast and server-side degradation techniques. An active open-source contributor, he implemented HTTP/2 support and stream management improvements in the widely used Scrapy framework as part of Google Summer of Code. Comfortable across Golang, Python, Android, and large distributed systems, he blends low-level protocol work with production-grade service engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who turns protocol research and complex networking challenges into reliable, testable infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:13 reviews, 73 commits, 15 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Aditya's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Scrapy framework, specifically concerning the HTTP/2 client protocol. They made significant changes related to the handling of HTTP/2 streams, including the implementation of stream management, request initiation, and the handling of data transfer and flow control. The user's work encompassed the addition of tests to ensure the correct handling of HTTP/2 requests and responses within the Scrapy framework.
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