Alok Kumar
Distinguished Engineer at Uber
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAlok Kumar is a Distinguished Engineer with 8 years of recent experience in large-scale distributed systems, currently leading Core Services at Uber from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has driven AI/ML infrastructure scaling and re-architected Google Cloud’s core network virtualization stack, following a multi-stage tenure at Google focused on high-performance multi-VPC connectivity and WAN bandwidth optimization. His expertise spans distributed systems architecture, traffic engineering, network virtualization, and scaling distributed relational databases into self-serve platforms. Early work on high-performance networking at Intel informs his low-level performance sensibilities while his MS from UT Austin and BTech from IIT Delhi anchor a strong academic foundation. Known for solving infrastructure bottlenecks end-to-end, he blends deep protocol-level knowledge with product-focused system design to deliver measurable improvements in throughput and scalability.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinDelhi Public School - R. K. Puram
Github Skills (7)
php10
cpp10
csharp10
python10
grpc10
ruby10
objective-c9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
kumaralokgithub/grpc
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 16 days
objective-ccpppythonc-nodenode-js
grpc/grpc
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Contributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 days
objective-ccpppythongrpcphp
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