Ankit Kumar
Head Of Developer And Customer Success at apidays
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkit Kumar is a software engineer and developer leader with nine years of experience, now heading Developer and Customer Success at Aklivity out of Palo Alto while maintaining roots in Bengaluru. He blends hands-on engineering—previously as Core Engineer at Aklivity and senior roles at Walmart Global Tech and Cloudera—with customer-facing technical leadership, ensuring product reliability and strong developer experiences. Ankit’s background in MS Software Engineering and an unusual parallel Master’s in Psychology gives him a rare skillset for understanding both system design and human behavior in product adoption and support. An active Apache contributor and public speaker (apidays) and AsyncAPI ambassador, he’s engaged in the open-source and API ecosystems beyond day-to-day delivery. Colleagues see him as a problem-solver who codes when needed but excels at translating customer needs into scalable technical solutions. He’s based in Bengaluru and brings a pragmatic, empathy-driven approach to developer success and cross-functional collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary, Higher Secondary at Sunbeam Matriculation Hr. Sec. SchoolMaster of Science - MS Psychology, Master of Science - MS Psychology at University of MadrasMS Software Engineering, MS Software Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (33)
cqrs10
event-driven-architecture10
kafka10
proxy10
server-sent-events10
apache10
java10
scala10
asyncapi10
api10
rest10
gateway10
api-gateway10
streaming-api10
apache-kafka10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ankitk-me/zilla-examples
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Zilla Examples
Contributions:2 PRs, 100 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 4 months
ankitk-me/zilla
Oct 2022 - Apr 2025
Zilla is an event-driven API gateway that can extend Apache Kafka to the edge
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 508 pushes in 2 years 5 months
api-gatewayapiapache-kafkasinkapache
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