Summary
Arvind Kumaran is a senior software engineer based in Sunnyvale with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and production ML infrastructure. He currently architects Instacart’s Ads Serving platform, enabling faster experimentation for data scientists and safe rollouts via integrated testing and automated feature launches like bidding and targeting. Previously at Walmart Global eCommerce he built scalable kNN and distributed inferencing platforms, CD pipelines, and production ML pipelines across cloud providers, demonstrating fluency with Spark, Docker, Jenkins, and both text and image deep learning models. His background includes large-scale streaming and microservice architectures using Storm, Kafka, Cassandra, and Spring, along with early work on attribute extraction and Hadoop optimizations. Comfortable bridging data science and engineering, he has a Master’s in Computer Science from Dartmouth and a track record of turning ML research into robust, deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering- Anna University
English